Aurum International
A monumental building of smooth cast concrete in sweeping curves. Hard sun lights the concrete; most of the plaza beneath it lies in black shadow, and one distant figure gives the scale.

Aurum / 001International Ltd

Private companySeoul / KR

Buildwhatendures.

Aurum International is a privately held company building and developing businesses, assets and ideas for the long term.

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/ Our approach

We don’t buildfor the moment.

We buildbeyond it.

Aurum develops and owns businesses with a long-term approach to value creation.

We believe ownership creates responsibility, and time creates perspective.

/ What we build

Index 01 – 05

  1. Building and owning operating businesses, held for the long term rather than turned over.

  2. Design-led businesses, each built under its own name and meant to carry it for decades.

  3. Names, designs and methods, owned by the company and developed rather than licensed away.

  4. Ownership and development of selected tangible assets.

  5. New businesses started under the company where they fit the mandate.

Areas of interest and mandate. Not operating divisions.

A single quarried stone block on the floor of an empty industrial hall.
A brutalist concrete tower seen from below: blank slab walls, a deep grid of recessed windows and one heavy cantilever, under a near-black sky.
The edge of a curved concrete canopy against a flat concrete wall marked by rows of formwork tie holes, half of it in black shadow.
A row of gantry cranes at a container terminal, seen across still water.
A long bar of glowing steel drawn out of a furnace along the rollers of a dark mill. The hot steel is the only colour in the frame.

/ Ownership

We build.We own.We steward.

Build / Own / Steward

Aurum takes a long-term view of ownership.

We seek to build businesses and assets where discipline, original thinking and patient development can compound over time.

/ Selected companies

Register

01 High jewelry & objectsSeoul

Mikael KimAtelier

A separate company with its own identity, website and clients. Held by Aurum International Ltd.

Further companies enter this register as they are built.

Portfolio
A cliff of thin sedimentary strata, folded and tilted, crossed by a diagonal shadow.

/ Long-term by design

Timeis partof thestrategy.

Some value is created quickly. The value we’re interested in compounds.

/ Principles

01 – 05

  1. Own with intent.

  2. Build with discipline.

  3. Think in decades.

  4. Create original value.

  5. Remain independent.

/ International

Latitude / Longitude / Local time

Seoul

37.5665° N  126.9780° E

Operations

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Shanghai

31.2304° N  121.4737° E

Working relationship

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New York

40.7128° N   74.0060° W

Working relationship

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Aurum operates from Seoul and works through relationships in Shanghai and New York. These are markets and working relationships, not offices.

An open-pit mine seen from altitude: dozens of pale terraces stepping down in concentric curves, each one edged by its own shadow.

/ Company

Aurum International Ltd

Privately held.Independently built.International in perspective.

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Whatenduresis whatmatters.

Aurum International Ltd

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