Goldman gets new Korea boss

In a move that signals Goldman's efforts to boost its Korean operations, the US investment bank has hired an old Korea hand to run its local investment banking operation. Hobart Lee Epstein - an ethnic Korean whose surname derives from the fact he was adopted by an American family - has been hired to run the investment banking division as a managing director. Lee Epstein returns to Seoul from a three year stint in California where he ran his own consulting firm called the Peerle…