Jung-Won HYUN - Kim & Chang

Bio

Jung-Won Hyun’s practice areas include the defense of antitrust investigations, merger notifications, and other cross-border corporate transactions. Since joining the firm in 2000, she continues to be extensively involved in providing corporate and antitrust counseling to both foreign and domestic firms in Korea.

Ms. Hyun has been the leading counsel in major merger control cases involving remedies issued by the KFTC, with her professional work and expertise widely recognized: she received the “Best in Competition and Antitrust” award at Euromoney’s Asia Women in Business Law Awards in 2017 and was recently recognized by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific as one of the Leading Partners, Antitrust and Competition (2024-2026) and by Lexology Index as one of the Leading Competition Lawyers in Korea (2019-2025).

Ms. Hyun studied in the Mass Communications Department at Seoul National University for two years before continuing in her education at Columbia College where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1993. She graduated from the School of Law at Columbia University in 1997, where she served as a note editor in the Asian Law Journal. Ms. Hyun is admitted to the bar in the State of New York.

Ms. Hyun speaks Korean, English and Japanese.

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Experience

Kim & Chang (2000-Present)

Associate, Morrison & Foerster LLP, New York (1997.10.-2000.11.)

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Awards

Leading Partner, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific: Antitrust and Competition (Legalease, 2024-2026)
Next Generation Partner, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific: Antitrust and Competition (Legalease, 2023)
Leading Lawyer, Asialaw Leading Lawyers: Competition/Antitrust (Delinian, 2022-2024)
Leading Practitioner, Expert Guides - Women in Business Law: Competition and Antitrust (Expert Guides, 2022)
Thought Leader, Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leaders - Competition 2022 (Who’s Who Legal, 2021)
Thought Leader, Who’s Who Legal: Competition (Who’s Who Legal, 2021)
Rising Star, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific: Antitrust & Competition (Legalease, 2021-2022)
Notable Practitioner, Asialaw Leading Lawyers: Competition/Antitrust (Euromoney, 2021)
Leading Practitioner, Expert Guides: Women in Business Law (Expert Guides, 2020-2021)
Leading Lawyer, Lexology Index: Korea, Competition (Lexology Index, 2019-2025)
Leading Lawyer, Lexology Index: Competition (Lexology Index, 2019-2023, 2025)
Best in Competition and Antitrust, Asia Women in Business Law Awards 2017 (Euromoney, 2017)

Publications/Activities

Getting the Deal Through – Competition Compliance: Korea Chapter (Law Business Research, 2017)
IFLR Merger Control Survey 2014: Korea Chapter (Co-author, Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC, 2014.3.)
GCR The Asia-Pacific Antitrust Review 2012: Korea Chapter (Co-author, Law Business Research, 2012)