Yoonjung CHOI - Kim & Chang

Bio

Yoonjung Choi is an attorney at Kim & Chang. With her substantial and diverse experience in courts, Ms. Choi specializes in labor & employment litigation, corporate governance & shareholder disputes, criminal defense litigation, serious accidents response, and banking, securities & finance litigation.

Ms. Choi served in the judiciary for 18 years as a judge or presiding judge of various courts, including the Seoul Central District Court, Seoul Western District Court, Goyang Branch of the Uijeongbu District Court, Changwon District Court, and the Supreme Court of Korea. During her time at the Supreme Court of Korea as a research judge and her tenure at the Changwon District Court, she experienced various issues in labor cases in depth. Ms. Choi also served in the corporate cases division at the Seoul Central District Court, and gained extensive experience in international legal affairs during her secondment to the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH).

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Experience

Kim & Chang (2026-Present)

Presiding Judge, Changwon District Court (2024-2026)

Research Judge, Supreme Court of Korea (Presiding Judge, 2023-2024)

Research Judge, Supreme Court of Korea (2021-2023)

Judge, Seoul Central District Court (2019-2021)

Secondment to the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) Permanent Bureau (2019-2020)

Judge, Goyang Branch of Uijeongbu District Court (2016-2019)

Judge, Wonju Branch of Chuncheon District Court (2012-2016)

Judge, Seoul Central District Court (2010-2012)

Judge, Seoul Western District Court (2008-2010)

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Publications/Activities

"Criteria for Determining the Justifiability of Dismissal Under Automatic Termination Clauses Following a Suspension from Duty for Poor Performance", Supreme Court Case Commentary No. 134 (Court Library, 2023)
"Whether a Wage Peak System without Retirement Extension is Invalid as Age Discrimination", Juris No. 61 (Journal and Article Management System, 2022)
"A Study on the Breakthrough Rule of the EU Takeover Directive", SNU Law Review Vol. 60 No. 3 (Seoul National University Law Research Institute, 2019)
"A Study on the Short-termism Controversy in the United States", Master's Thesis (Seoul National University Graduate School, 2017)
"Legal Study of the Warrant in Principle and the Exception about Seizure and Search of Electronic Stored Information(Mainly about Mobile Phones and Devices)", Justice Vol. 153 (Korean Society of Law, 2016)