Donggyun Hong is an attorney at Kim & Chang. He provides legal advice in financial areas, including regulations on business activities, inspection, and sanctions against major financial investment companies, and unfair trade investigations and securities crimes investigations within capital markets.

Before joining Kim & Chang, Mr. Hong worked as a working-level official and team head at the Financial Supervisory Service (“FSS”) for 19 years, mainly performing working-level and legal reviews in the area of capital market regulation, such as audits of financial investment companies, examination of securities registration statements and equity disclosures, investigation of various disclosure violations, investigation and inquiries of unfair trade practices such as market manipulation, as well as responding to the Securities and Futures Commission.

In particular, as a key member of the FSS’s Capital Market Judiciary Enforcement Unit, he was in charge of the overall investigation process, including interrogation of suspects, search and seizure, execution of arrest warrants, digital forensics, and keeping the prosecutor’s indictment.