Bio
Profile
Experience
Kim & Chang (2012-Present)
Judge Advocate, Republic of Korea Air Force (2009-2012)
Representative Mattersshow
- Represented major domestic financial institutions in investigations by regulatory authorities and in civil and criminal litigations regarding personal information leakage.
- Represented a major global pharmaceutical company in its civil and criminal litigation in a personal information leakage case.
- Represented global SNS service providers, global IT companies, and major software development companies in investigations by regulatory authorities, and advised on privacy regulations.
- Conducted privacy & IT compliance reviews for domestic banks, financial IT service providers, and global and domestic game companies.
- Advised foreign financial companies on cross-border data transferring.
- Advised a major domestic financial holding company on cloud computing and big data.
- Advised Internet banks on obtaining preliminary government licenses and on various business models and regulations.
- Advised banks and fintech companies on obtaining licenses and operating MyData Businesses.
- Advised companies on operating electronic financial businesses.
- Advised major global and domestic banks on KIKO mis-selling cases.
- Advised a foreign financial company in a Korea Fair Trade Commission’s cartel investigation.
- Advised foreign financial companies in police investigations regarding issuances of overseas debt bonds.
Representative Activitiesshow
Publications/Activities
- Practical Law Data Privacy Advisor - Information Security Considerations/Cyber Incident Response and Data Breach Notification (Co-author, Thomson Reuters, 2021)
- Amendment and Implications of the Three Data Privacy Laws (Focusing on the Credit Information Act), Electronic Financial Business and Financial Security 20 (Financial Security Institute, 2020)
- The Study of the Implementation of Information Protection Technology for MyData in Financial Sector (Co-author, Financial Service Commission, 2019)
- The Concept and Legal Issues of Open Banking, BFL Vol. 99 (Co-author, Center for Financial Law, Seoul National University, 2020)
- Euromoney Financial Crime & Cyber Security Handbook 2014/15: Korea chapter (Co-author, Euromoney, 2014)
- “Introduction of MyData Industry and Legal Issues,” Financial Security Institute Big Data Council (2018)
- “Keywords for Data Combination: Pseudonymization, Anonymization and De-identification,” Privacy Global Edge 2019 (2019)
- “Legal Issues in Use of API in Finance Industry,” Korea Credit Information Service - Insurance Credit Information Seminar (2019)
Education
UC Berkeley School of Law (Visiting Scholar, 2017-2018)
Professional Legal Education Program, UC Berkeley School of Law (Certificate in Law and Technology, 2017)
Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (2009)
Seoul National University (LL.B., 2006)
Qualifications
Admitted to bar, Korea, 2009
Languages
Korean and English
Insights
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Articles
Practical Law Data Privacy Advisor – Information Security Considerations (South Korea) 2021 / Cyber Incident Response and Data Breach Notification (South Korea) 2021
2021.02.23 -
Newsletters
Proposed Amendments to the Enforcement Decree of the Credit Information Use and Protection Act
2020.04.13