Hyeon-Jin Kim

Practice Areas

Mr. Hyeon-Jin Kim is a partner at Shin & Kim. Mr. Kim’s main areas of practice include trusts and estates, civil & criminal litigations in relation to tax and accounting (prosecution’s criminal stage, tax appeal, international arbitration) and consultation (capital markets act, inheritance etc.).

Mr. Kim passed the 29th Certified Public Accountants exams in 1994, and worked at Ernst & Young and KPMG. While joining Ernst & Young and KPMG, Mr. Kim worked on providing tax consulting for various companies.

Career

Partner, Shin & Kim; Legal Counsel, National Tax Service Jungbu Regional Office (2022-Present); Commissioner, KOSDAQ Market Corporate Evaluation Committee, Korea Exchange (2021-Present); Expert Advisor, Start-up Supporting Program, KICPA (2020-Present); Chairman, Local Tax Policy Subcommittee, Korea Local Tax Association and Research on Corporate Tax Regime, Korean Academic Society of Taxation (2020-Present); Accounting System Deliberation Committee, Financial Services Commission; Mid-Sized Company Committee, Korea Chamber of Commerce & Industry and Auditor, Paan Scholarship and Culture Foundation (2019-Present); Member, National Tax Research Committee, KICPA (2014-Present); KPMG (1999-2003); Defense Procurement Agency of the Ministry of National Defense (1996-98); Ernst&Young (1994-95).

Professional Memberships

Korean Bar, Korea Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Publications

Trusts as Will Substitutes, Reserve and Inheritance Tax, Monthly CPA, KICPA, April 2020; Foreign Exchange Transactions Act/Customs Act Handbook for In-house Lawyers, Korean Bar Association, December 2019; Legal Explanatory Notes for External Audit on Corporations, Etc. (Supervision), Korean Institute of Certified Public Accountants, 2019; Online Explanatory Notes for the Local Tax Act, the Framework Act on Local Taxes and the Local Tax Collection Act, 2019; Service Report on Improvement of Taxation on artwork and craftwork, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, 2019;

Education