He also serves as an advisory committee member of Coinpia, a bitcoin exchange in South Korea. Dr. Hong built up his finance career by working at university asset management companies, various investment banks and central banks. He obtained his doctoral degree in economics at Cambridge University, UK and worked for Capital Market Institute and the College of business administration in University of Technology, Sydney for years. His major fields are asset management, risk management, alternative investment and digital currencies. Currently, he studies under support at SWIFT Institute about whether digital currencies can function as real currencies. He also studies the possibility of digital currencies as alternative investment assets and the utility of asset management.