Ghyo-Sun Park

Practice Areas

Mr. Ghyo-Sun Park is a senior partner at Shin & Kim. Mr. Park focuses on commercial litigation including intellectual property, product liability, mergers & acquisitions, corporate governance and international arbitration.

Mr. Park has been involved in many significant patent infringement cases and product liability cases including first Korean Tobacco Litigation. He has also provided legal advise to SBS, one of the premier private broadcasting station and KBL, one of the popular professional sports entity. Mr. Park serves as a member of Advisory Committee for Intellectual Property Rights of the Korea Trade Commission. Also, He has elected as the President of the KIPLA (Korean Intellectual Property Lawyers Association) in 2021.

Career

Outside Director, SBS Contents Hub (2023-2024)

President, Korean Intellectual Property Lawyers Association (KIPLA) (2021-2022)

Outside Director, Genie Music (2019-2023)

Vice President, Korean Intellectual Property Lawyers Association (KIPLA) (2019-2020)

Member, E-Commerce Mediation Committee, Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (2012-2018)

Director, Korean Bar Association (2012-2014)

Member, Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property Rights, Korea Trade Commission, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (2008-present)

Legal Counsel, Seoul Broadcasting System (2002-present)

Legal Counsel, Korean Intellectual Property Office (2000-2004)

Legal Counsel, Korean Basketball League and ETRI (2000-2016)

Legal Counsel, ETRI (1996-2020)

Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garett & Dunner, Washington, D.C. (1999)

Morrison & Foerster, Palo Alto (1998)

Shin & Kim LLC (1991 - Present)

Judicial Research & Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (1991)

Professional Memberships

Korean and New York Bar.

Publications

The Legal 500 Country Comparative Guides – Product Liability 2025: Korea Chapter (Co-authored)

Chambers Global Practice Guides – Product Liability & Safety 2024: Korea Chapter (Co-authored)

The Legal 500 Country Comparative Guides – Product Liability 2023: Korea Chapter (Co-authored)

The Legal 500 Country Comparative Guides – Product Liability 2022: Korea Chapter (Co-authored)

The Legal 500 Country Comparative Guides – Product Liability 2021: Korea Chapter (Co-authored)

Lexology Getting the Deal Through – Product Liability 2016: Korea Chapter (Co-authored)

South Korea: A Legal Guide to Doing Business in the Asia-Pacific, ABA, May 2010 (Co-authored)

Work Highlights

Represented a Korean tobacco company in tobacco litigation

Represented a Korean broadcasting company in a claim for copyright royalty against the Korea Music Copyright Association

Represented a link site in civil and criminal litigation in relation to aiding and abetting copyright infringements

Represented a pharmaceutical company in a claim for damages over the price cut of an original drug from the launch of a generic drug (Korea’s first damages claim of this kind)

Represented a client in a claim for damages from infringement and invalidation of patent of a new HIV medication between original drug companies

Represented clients in multiple patent litigations in relation to medical inventions, including world-renowned immunosuppressants and diabetes medications

Represented a client in Agent Orange product liability class action lawsuit raised by Vietnam veterans of Korea

Represented a client in a claim for invalidation of use patents for Sildenafil for erectile dysfunction and use and dosage patents for Tadalafil

Represented Korean and foreign automobile companies in a vehicle emission damages claim

Represented a client in Korea’s first alcohol litigation

Represented a client in Korea’s first cigarette fire damages lawsuit

Languages Spoken

Korean, English

Education