Hak Seok Kim

Career

Hak Seok Kim is a Yulchon partner whose primary areas of expertise include Corporate/White Collar Crimes, Criminal (Prosecution), Financial Regulations, Construction/Real Estate Disputes, Tax Crimes, Unfair Competition, Healthcare Disputes and Securities/Finance Disputes. Mr. Kim served as a prosecutor for over 22 years. During this time, Mr. Kim handled corporate/white collar crimes including those of public officials, financial crime, and tax evasion. He also investigated crimes related to a wide array of real estate and construction dealings such as those relevant to remodeling, redevelopment, and planned real estate as well as medical, pharmaceutical, food-related, and environment crimes. Mr. Kim obtained a doctorate degree focusing on the Capital Markets Act, rare for a practitioner, and co-authored “Practice of Financial Crime Investigations I”, a reference material for investigators in the prosecutors’ office.

Personal

Education

2011 Korea University, Graduate School of Law, LL.D.

2007 Stanford University, Visiting Scholar

2004 Korea University, Graduate School of Law, M.A. (Intellectual Property)

2001 Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Visiting Scholar

1992 Judicial Research and Training Institute, the Supreme Court of Korea

1986 Korea University, LL.B.

Experience

2014-present Yulchon LLC

2018-present President of the Korean Academic Society of Business Administration and Law, Vice president of the Korean Securities Law Association, Vice president of the Korean Arbitrators Association, Vice president of the Korean Association of Victimology, Advisor for the Securities Financing Investigation Team of the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors Office

2018-present Member of the Policy Advisory Committee, Member of the Audit Claim Review Committee of the Ministry of Public Administration and Security, Member of the Financial Law Committee of the Korean Bar Association

2014 Prosecutor, Seoul High Prosecutors’ Office

2013-2014 Deputy Mayor, Legal Affairs, Seoul Metropolitan Government

2012-2014 Editorial Staff, Research of Advanced Mercantile Laws, Ministry of Justice

2011-2013 Director (Senior Prosecutor), Construction Headquarters, Legal Research & Training Institute, Ministry of Justice and Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office

2011 Adjunct Professor, Korea University, Graduate School of Law (Capital Markets Act)

2011 Adjunct Professor, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Law School (Capital Markets Act)

2010-2011 Researcher, Institute of Justice

2009-2010 Chief Prosecutor, Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office

2009 Chief Prosecutor, Seoul Western District Prosecutors’ Office

2008-2009 Section Chief, Human Rights Support Division, Ministry of Justice

2007-2008 Chief Prosecutor, Department of Narcotics and Organized Crimes, Suwon Prosecutors’ Office

2006-2007 Vice Chief Prosecutor, Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office and Stanford University Visiting Scholar

2005-2006 Chief Prosecutor, Department of Corruption Crimes, Jeonju Prosecutors’ Office, Gunsan Branch

2004-2005 Vice Chief Prosecutor, Department of Corruption Crimes, Incheon Prosecutors’ Office, Bucheon Branch

2002-2004 Prosecutor, Department of Corruption, Medicine Crimes, Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office

2000-2002 Prosecutor, Department of Corruption Crimes, Daejeon Prosecutors’ Office, Cheonan Branch and Guest Researcher at Freiburg University Max Planck Institutes

1998-2000 Prosecutor, Department of Corruption Crimes, Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors’ Office

1996-1998 Prosecutor, Department of Violent, Customs Crimes, Incheon District Prosecutors’ Office

1994-1996 Prosecutor, Busan Prosecutors’ Office, Ulsan Branch

1992-1994 Prosecutor, Busan Prosecutors’ Office