Profile
Experience
Kim & Chang (2018-Present)
Seoul Semiconductor (2017-2018)
Gymworld Inc. (2016-2017)
LG Display (2012-2013)
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Brussels (2010-2011)
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, Brussels (2009)
Hammonds LLP, Brussels (2008-2009)
Representative Activitiesshow
Publications/Activities
- "China and the WTO: what happens after a honeymoon", (pp.772-781, Chapter 42), The Elgar Companion to the World Trade Organization (Edward Elgar, 2023)
- “The DEPA and ASDEA: Template for Digital Trade Agreements for Indo-Pacific?,” Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs, Vol.40 (Brill, 2022)
- “Jurisdictional Objections and Defenses (Ratione Personae, Ratione Materiae, and Ratione Temporis), J. Chaisse et al. (eds.),” Handbook of International Investment Law and Policy (Springer Singapore, 2020)
- “The CPTPP’s Competition and SOE Chapters: Possible Impacts for Potential New Members,” Special Issue on the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), Transnational Dispute Management Vol.5 (2019)
- “Investor-State Dispute against China’s Enforcement of the Anti-Monopoly Law: Belling the Panda? (Chapter 26),” China’s Investment Strategy (Oxford University Press, 2019)
- “Chapter 16 One Belt, One Road Initiative into a New Regional Trade Agreement: Implication to the WTO Dispute Settlement System,” Belt and Road Initiative: Law, Economics and Politics (Brill, 2018)
- “Competition Law Issues on “Horizontal Shareholding” by Institutional Investors,” Korea Competition Law Review Vol.37 (Korea Competition Law Association, 2018)
- “Investor-State Dispute Against China’s Enforcement of the Anti-Monopoly Law: Belling the Panda? (Book Chapter),” Proceedings of Asia FDI Forum II (2018)
- “One Belt, One Road Initiative into a New Regional Trade Agreement: Implication to the WTO Dispute Settlement System,” Special Issue on One Belt, One Road Initiative (Transnational Dispute Management, 2017)
- “Conflict of Investment-Related Provisions Under Regional Trade Agreements Between Korea and China - Navigating the ‘Noodle Bowl,’” ICSID Review (Oxford University Press, 2017)
- “Competition Related Provisions (CRPs) of Bilateral Trade Agreements, Bilateral Competition Cooperation Agreements of Korea and Their Implications,” Manchester Journal of International Economic Law (2015)
- “Updates on the European Union’s Investor-State Dispute System (ISDS)-Related Lawmaking and Its Implication to Korea,” Northeast Asian Law Journal (Institute for North-East Asian Law of Jeonbuk National University, 2015)
- “The Definition of Investment: Did We Go Beyond Salini?, Chapter 6, Ian Laird and Todd Weiler (Eds.),” Investment Treaty Arbitration and International Law Vol.5 (Juris Publishing, 2012)
- “Subsidies Issues in the WTO - An Update,” European State Aid Law Quarterly (Co-author, Lexxion Publisher, 2011)
- Speaker, "Anti-circumvention Inquiry in Korea," Annual Conference (Asian Society of International Law Japan Chapter, 2024.6.)
- Speaker, "Extraterritorial Application of Domestic Law: Is It that Bad for Asian Countries?," Asian Society of International Law Intercessional Conference (2024.5.)
- Speaker, “Digital Economy Partnership Agreements in Asia - The Way Forward,” SMU ASEAN-Korea Strategic Partnership Workshop (2023.3.)
- Speaker, “Protection of Critical Technology through Export Control: Case of Korea,” Asian International Economic Law Network (AIELN) Biennial Conference (2021.12.)
- Speaker, “Cybersecurity Challenge of Smart Factories under ‘Law of Armed Conflict’,” Annual Conference (Japan Chapter of Asian Society of International Law, 2021.4.)
- Speaker, “EU-Korea FTA Labor Dispute,” EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment in Context (II) (Queen Mary University of London, 2021.3.)
- Speaker, “Digital Trade Partnership Agreement: Template for Future Agreement,” The Roadmap to the ASEAN-EU FTA in the Post-Pandemic Era (Singapore Management University School of Law, 2020)
- Speaker, “Standing Asian Investment Court,” Asian Society of International Law Japan Chapter, Annual Global Conference (Waseda University, 2018)
- Speaker, “Multilateralization of Anti-Corruption Enforcement: Learning from the Competition Law Experience,” Biennial Conference (Asian Society of International Law, 2017)
- Speaker, “EU’s FTA/BIT Pre- and Post-Lisbon Treaty: For Better or Worse?,” Asia FDI Forum III (Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2017)
- Speaker, “Competition Related Provisions (CRPs) of Bilateral Trade Agreements, Bilateral Competition Cooperation Agreements of Korea and Their Implications,” Staff Seminar (City University of Hong Kong, 2016)
- Speaker, “Investor-State Dispute Against China’s Enforcement of the Anti-Monopoly Law: Belling the Panda?,” Asia FDI Forum II (Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2016)
- Panelist, “Best Practices in International Arbitration and Recent Developments,” ICDR Y&I Conference (Co-hosted by Georgetown University Law Center, 2016)
Education
Korea University (Ph.D., International Economic Law, 2015)
University of London (Postgraduate Diploma, EU Law, 2010)
Georgetown University (Visiting Researcher/Institute of International Economic Law Fellow, 2003)
University of Michigan Law School (LL.M., 2001)
College of Law, Korea University (LL.B., 2000)
Qualifications
Admitted to bar, New York, 2004
Languages
Korean, English and German
Insights
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Prospects for Key Trade Policy Direction of Trump 2.0
2025.01.17 -
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2024 UFLPA Strategy Update and Key Implications
2024.10.25 -
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Korea Introduces Anti-Circumvention System in Customs Act
2024.07.19 -
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EU Launched First In-Depth Investigation Into a Foreign Subsidiary, Relating to a Public Procurement Undertaken in Bulgaria, Against a Chinese State-Owned Company
2024.04.23 -
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Upcoming First Reporting Deadline for the CBAM Transitional Period and EC’s Publication of Default Values for Embedded Emissions
2024.03.08 -
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Korea Environmental Legal Update (Spring 2024)
2024.03.08