Hak Seok Kim

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.