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Hak Seok Kim

Hak Seok Kim

Asia-Pacific 2026

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Asia-Pacific

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.

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Dispute Resolution: White-Collar Crime - South Korea

Band 3
Band 3

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Kim Hak Seok advises on various financial crime mandates, including fraud, bribery and embezzlement cases. He represents Korean and foreign entities.

Strengths

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  • Kim Hak Seok completes the case well and continues to follow up even after the case has ended.

    Dispute Resolution: White-Collar CrimeChambers Asia & Pacific
  • Hak Seok strives to achieve the best results by drawing on his experience as a prosecutor and thanks to his willingness to solve problems from the client's point of view.

    Dispute Resolution: White-Collar CrimeChambers Asia & Pacific

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