Executive Vice President of the Company and Chief Lending Officer, Chief Operating Officer, and Co-Chief Executive Officer of the Bank · MetroCity Bankshares, Inc. (MCBS)

Howard Hwasaeng Kim

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Howard Hwasaeng Kim as a named executive officer of MetroCity Bankshares; the record below is that year, complete. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

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Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$2,259,594

3rd of 5 named executive officers at MetroCity Bankshares by FY2025 total.

5 named officers on file for MetroCity Bankshares, FY2025

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 20, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-11-10.

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Howard Hwasaeng Kim compensation by year

MetroCity Bankshares Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as MetroCity Bankshares reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$500,000
Bonus$0
Stock awards$738,594
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$1,000,000
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$21,000
Total$2,259,594

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: MetroCity Bankshares, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 20, 2026, accession 0001104659-26-045475, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the MetroCity Bankshares, Inc. filed document, accession 0001104659-26-045475. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 20, 2026.

Insider transactions since the last proxy

1 Form 4 line since the FY2025 proxy (filed April 20, 2026)
current to 2026-11-10 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-06-01Grant or award—21,840$32.66669,141

The 1 most recent of 1 lines, each as reported on the Form 4. "10b5-1" marks a trade the filing reports under a pre-arranged trading plan. View every Form 4 filing on EDGAR →

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments MetroCity Bankshares discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Disability$1,000,000$1,183,286$59,485$2,242,771
Death$1,000,000$1,183,286$59,485$2,242,771
Involuntary termination without cause$500,000$1,183,286$39,659$1,722,945
Change in control and involuntary termination$500,000—$59,485$559,485
Change in control and resignation for good reason$1,000,000$1,183,286$59,485$2,242,771

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in MetroCity Bankshares, Inc.'s FY2025 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

MetroCity Bankshares’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Nack PaekChief Executive Officer of the Company and Executive Chairman of the Bank$2,563,611
Farid TanPresident of the Company, Chief Executive Officer of the Bank and Interim Chief Financial Officer of the Company and the Bank$2,563,411
Howard Hwasaeng Kim · this pageExecutive Vice President of the Company and Chief Lending Officer, Chief Operating Officer, and Co-Chief Executive Officer of the Bank$2,259,594
Lucas StewartFormer Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company and the Bank$331,851
Abdul MohdnorExecutive Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer of the Company and the Bank$302,651

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