Aurum / 002
Company

Private company
Seoul / KR

An institutionbuilt over time.

Aurum International Ltd is a privately held company that builds, owns and develops businesses, intellectual property, ventures and long-term assets.

/ What Aurum is

A companythat ownswhat it builds.

Aurum is a holding company in the plain sense of the words. It starts businesses, holds them, and develops them under its own ownership.

It is not a fund and it is not a financial-services firm. The businesses under it are separate companies, each with its own identity, its own website and its own clients.

/ Why it exists

To givelong worka long owner.

Most things worth building take longer than a project or a trend allows. Aurum exists so that the businesses and assets under it can be developed on their own timetable, by an owner that intends to still be there.

/ Ownership

Ownershipwithintent.

We build. We own. We steward.

Ownership creates responsibility, and responsibility changes decisions: what gets made, how carefully, and what is refused. Each company under Aurum keeps its own name and its own accounts.

/ Philosophy

Builtbeyondthe present.

Some value is created quickly. The value we are interested in compounds, and compounding needs time, discipline and an owner that does not need to sell.

  1. 01Own with intent.
  2. 02Build with discipline.
  3. 03Think in decades.
  4. 04Create original value.
  5. 05Remain independent.

/ International

Internationalin perspective.

Aurum operates from Seoul and works through relationships in Shanghai and New York. These are working relationships, not offices, and the company says so wherever it names them.

/ Particulars

Legal name
Aurum International Ltd
Form
Privately held company
Operations
Seoul, Republic of Korea