Career
Remarkable track record several major cases in his specialty area;
1) Shipping
- represented Hanjin Shipping in the 'Typhoon Maemi’case;
- represented the Owners in the ‘Seizure by Somali pirate of MV Bright Ruby
- reprerepresented the Owners in the ‘Seizure by Somali pirate of MV Brightsented Samsung Heavy Industry in the ‘MV Hebei Spirit vs Samsung Barge No 1’ case;
- represented and advised Korean Consortium in relation to the internation bidding for charter-party contract award of 50 LNG carriers
2) Aviation
- represented Korean Air Line and other global air carriers in relation to aircraft collapse, air cargo claim and passenger claims
- represented Air China in the ‘Aircraft Crash at Gimhae’ case;
3) Insurance
- represented local underwriters in relation to several large-scale fire accidient and its resultant package insurance claims;
- represented local and global underwriters in relation to D & O insurance policy
- represented several underwriters in relation to marine insurance claims including the sinking of MV Sewol;
4) Trading Dispute
- represented banks in relation to letter- of- credit dispute
- represented and advised Korea Trade Insurance Corporation for 3 decades
Personal
- Seoul National University (LLB 1987);
- Washington University Law School (LLM, 2003);
- Visiting Lawyer at Richards Butler in 2001 and 2002
- Lecturer in Judicial Training Institute (2008)