Kyung Geun Lee

Career

Dr. Kyung Geun Lee has been the leader of the tax counseling part of Yulchon LLC since 2007, and his primary practice area includes counseling on tax issues (including transfer pricing) arising from foreign corporations’ advances into Korea, M&A and various forms of overseas investment by Korean companies. Dr. Lee has been recognized since 2013 by Chambers Asia-Pacific as a leading professional in Band 1 Group of Tax Consultants. During his term at the Korean Ministry of Economy and Finance (MOEF), he acted as the head of Korean delegation for tax treaty negotiations with tax authorities of China, Australia, Canada, etc., and in 1995, he took part in establishment of the draft for the laws regarding international tax adjustments that include transfer pricing system and other tax systems of major countries. As such, Dr. Lee greatly contributed to building the framework for the Korean transfer pricing system. From 1999 to 2003, he served as an Administrator (A4 level) at the OECD Center for Tax Policy and Administration (CTPA), which mainly focuses on transfer pricing, and from 2003 to 2007, he served as the director of multiple groups including the Tax Tribunal and the Income Tax Department, International Tax Department, Corporate Tax Division at the Ministry of Strategy and Finance. Furthermore, Dr. Lee was Vice-Chairman of the UN Tax Expert Convention for 4 years from July, 2005, and currently serves as a civilian expert in the Subcommittee on Transfer Price of the same committee. Having served IFA Korea as the Presiden in 2019, Mr. Lee is now a mediator for the Korean Division at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes under World Bank, a non-standing editorialist of Joseilbo (Korean Tax Daily), a non-standing professor at aSSIST (Seoul School of Integrated Sciences & Technologies)

Personal

Education

2002 Foundation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Docteur de I’Institut d’Etudes Politique en Sciences Economiques, Ph. D.

1992 University of California at Berkeley, Haas School of Business, M.B.A.

1986 Korean Training Institute for Government Officials

1983 Seoul National University, B.A. in Business Administration