YOON&YANG
Seong-joong Kim Partner
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Seong-joong Kim is a partner at Yoon & Yang LLC and his main practice areas are financial/capital market disputes, financial consumer protection regulations, insurance, media disputes and commercial disputes, etc.
Based on in-depth understanding of the overall industries, Mr. Kim effectively deals with a wide variety of legal matters. As a judge advocate for the Republic of Korea Army, he built hands-on experiences in construction and real estate, state contracts, national properties and BTL projects at the Defense Installations Agency. Since he was admitted to the Korean bar, he has handled various cases involving financial/media/commercial disputes, insurances and corporate criminal defense, while advising on corporate law and M&As at the same time. In particular, Mr. Kim worked at head offices of commercial banks, where he closely communicated with customers by providing rapid and reasonable solutions for diverse issues they faced, such as regulations on protection of financial consumers, and follow-up measures on incomplete sales of private equity funds, etc.

Experience

  • 2018-present Yoon & Yang LLC
  • 2024 Head office of NongHyup Bank (secondment)
  • 2021-22 Head office of Shinhan Bank (secondment)
  • 2021 Head office of Industrial Bank of Korea (secondment)
  • 2016-18 DR & AJU LLC
  • 2015-16 Judge Advocate, Defense Installations Agency
  • 2013-15 Judge Advocate, Republic of Korea Army

Education

  • 2022-23 University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, Visiting Scholar
  • 2016 Korea University Graduate School of Law (LL.D. course completion)
  • 2013 Korea University School of Law, J.D.
  • 2010 Seoul National University College of Law, LL.B.

Representative Matters

[Financial/Capital Market/Commercial Disputes]

  • Represented commercial banks in litigations concerning contract cancellation, claim seeking return of investment money, and claim seeking damages from mis-selling of ELS/ELT products, and advised on private settlement
  • Represented commercial banks in litigations concerning contract cancellation, claim seeking return of investment money, and claim seeking damages from mis-selling of private placement funds (i.e., LIME fund), and advised on private settlement
  • Represented and advised a domestic securities company in the litigation seeking receivables and restitution of unjust enrichment related to the “SG-led share price plummet” issue 
  • Represented a domestic securities company in the litigation concerning contract cancellation, claim seeking return of investment money, and claim seeking damages from mis-selling
  • Represented a commercial bank in the litigation related to unjust enrichment, damages, and dividend objection
  • Handled litigations on unjust enrichment and delivery of share certificate related to exercise of stock options
  • Handled litigations seeking payment of shares involving share purchase agreement and performance of procedure for change of share ownership
  • Handled litigations seeking performance of procedure for registration of collateral security establishment, de-registration of collateral security, and loans


[Financial Consumer Protection Regulations]

  • Provided overall consulting to commercial banks in response to the enactment of the newly established Financial Consumer Protection Act
  • Advised commercial banks on various issues related to the Financial Consumer Protection Act
  • Wrote the “online footnote” relating to the Financial Consumer Protection Act


[Insurance/Maritime Disputes]

  • Represented domestic & foreign insurance companies in litigations seeking damages related to the “Pohang earthquake”
  • Represented a domestic insurance company in the litigation seeking insurance payment related to the unknown primary clause under the cancer insurance policy
  • Handled the litigation seeking damages related to a container capsizing incident that occurred at a harbor

 

[Product Liability]

  • Represented a foreign tobacco company in the tobacco litigation
  • Handled the litigation seeking damages related to the so-called “hamburger disease”
     
  • [Media Disputes]
  • Represented a domestic savings bank in the litigation seeking correction of investigative reporting by MBC’s “PD Notebook” and refute reporting, and damages claim
  • Represented a domestic defense contractor in the litigation seeking deletion of videos on YouTube and damages claim


[Construction Disputes]

  • Represented a domestic construction firm in the litigation seeking return of pre-sale payment
  • Represented a domestic construction firm in the litigation seeking construction payment (indirect cost) related to US Army barracks and cafeteria facility construction works
  • Represented a domestic construction firm in the litigation seeking construction payment (indirect cost) related to facility construction works involving the “Golden Bat” project
  • Represented a domestic construction firm in the litigation seeking construction payment, service cost, and division of construction cost
  • Handled the litigation seeking restitution of unjust enrichment related to presale fraud involving “Wirae New City Development” project
  • Represented a domestic heavy construction manufacturer in the litigation seeking damages arising from a heavy construction equipment-related accident
  • Handled the litigation seeking payment for patented invention license fee and design service regarding the EMP protective facility construction works


[Dispute related to Private-Financed Projects]

  • Handled the litigation seeking revocation of disposition cancelling designation of preferred negotiator related to the “Shinansan Line Light Railway” private-financed project


[Corporate Criminal Affairs]

  • Represented the case on death by occupational negligence involving Oxy’s humidifier disinfectant-associated death
  • Represented the case on death by occupational negligence involving Lotte Mart’s humidifier disinfectant-associated death
  • Represented the case on breach of the Public Official Election Act involving the National Intelligence Service (NIS)’s online comments
  • Represented the case on bribery in relation to the “Jung Unho Gate” 
  • Represented the case on obstruction of business in relation to unlawful recruitment of a defense industry company 
  • Represented the case on breach of Subsidy Management Act in relation to a care hospital (hospital owned by a non-medical personnel)