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Hae-Yeon Yi

EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women™ Asia-Pacific Class of 2021

CEO, HLSCIENCE, Korea

Hae-Yeon Yi is CEO of HLSCIENCE, an R&D-intensive company that focuses on new materials and new technology in the bio health industry. HLSCIENCE covers a wide range of services, including new natural materials and medicines, pharmaceutical cosmetics, inner beauty products, health functional foods, sanitary aids and general foods.

Established in 2000, with a big dream to enhance people’s health and beauty in the world, HLSCIENCE has been trying to achieve the goal of “World’s Best Technology toward Health.”

HLSCIENCE takes pride in its excellent technology and marketing capabilities, offering approximately 40 specialized branded products via strong sales networks for both business-to-customer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) service.

HLSCIENCE is trying to make contributions to the healthy lives of people in the world by realizing worth of health with world’s best technology.

Graduated from Chung-Ang University, Hae-Yeon is currently the Vice Chair of the Korea Health Functional Food Association and the Korea Women Inventors Association. Hae-Yeon has been honored by the government and civil sector (including Korea’s Decoration Order by the Korean Government, Prime Minister Prize at SME Technology Competition, and the Prize of the Role Model of Taxpayer by the Ministry of Economy and Finance).

HLSCIENCE vision is to be a global first-class specialist bio healthcare company that contributes to humanity’s health by developing the first and the best new materials in the world through innovative and safe technology. HLSCIENCE's vision is embodied in its goal of the “World’s Best Technology toward Health
Hae-Yeon Yi