Bio
Profile
Experience
Kim & Chang (2019-Present)
Representative Mattersshow
- Advised on reporting on a virtual asset service provider under the Specified Financial Information Act.
- Advised on the issuance and management of digital assets through overseas subsidiaries.
- Advised on the listing and delisting of digital assets on digital asset exchanges.
- Advised on determining whether digital assets are securities.
- Advised on responding to a regulator’s audit and sanctions against the VASP.
- Acted as lead counsel for the VASP in civil disputes against users.
- Advised on payment services using digital assets.
- Advised on decentralized services such as DeFi or DEX.
- Advised on registration of electronic financial business
- Advised on response to regulator's audit and sanctions against electronic financial business operators
- Advised on application for designation as innovative financial services
- Advised on simple payment service using electronic prepayment means
- Advised on reorganization of electronic financial business entities
- Advised on proposed amendment to the Electronic Financial Transaction Act
- Advised on determination of whether an online platform operator conducts electronic financial business
- Advised on the internet bank license application
- Advised on response to regulator's audit and sanctions against insurers
- Acted as lead counsel for an insurer in a civil lawsuit between the insurer and a medical institution
- Advised on insurance companies' M&A
- Advised on insurers' internal controls
- Advised on life insurance suicide dispute
- Acted as lead counsel for an insurer related to cataract surgery
- Acted as lead counsel for blockchain game companies in a lawsuit seeking revocation of rating cancellation of the blockchain games
- Advised on business structure for the issuance and management of digital assets used for blockchain game services
- Acted as lead counsel for an online game company in a criminal case related to violation of the Game Industry Promotion Act
- Advised on speculative acts and gambling regulations of online games
Representative Activitiesshow
Publications/Activities
- Speaker, “Web 3.0 Games and the Game Industry Promotion Act,” Legal Issues of Digital Transformation (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), 2024.5.)
- Speaker, “Legal Analysis of NFT Items,” Virtual Convergence Economy Revitalization Forum (Ministry of Science and ICT, etc., 2023.9.)
- “Legal Issues of Blockchain Game Project,” BFL No.115 (Seoul National University Center for Financial Law, 2022.9.)
- Speaker, “Legal Issues of Blockchain Games,” Regular Seminar (Capital Market Research Association, 2022.5.)
- “A Study on the Search and Seizure of Electronic Information from the Viewpoint of Personal Information Protection” (Seoul National University Center for Law & Technology, 2020.11.)
Education
School of Law, Seoul National University (Financial Legal Research & Training Course, 2022)
School of Law, Seoul National University (J.D., 2019)
Seoul National University (B.A., Economics, 2014)
Qualifications
Admitted to bar, Korea, 2019
Languages
Korean and English