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Jipyong Held Webinar on ‘[LEGAL 500] Guiding Your Business Through a Time of Crisis: A Lawyer’s Guide to COVID-19 in South Korea’

2020.06.24

On 24 June, The Legal 500 and Jipyong, a leading law firm in South Korea for over 20 years, presented a webinar exploring how South Korean businesses and their lawyers lead through the COVID-19 crisis. It was a part of a series of webinars on COVID-19 response by country hosted by LEGAL 500. 
 
The webinar was for companies and law firm professionals around the world who are interested in South Korea’s successful COVID-19 response. Senior Foreign Attorneys representing Jipyong who have expertise in bio and healthcare, finance, corporate affairs, labor, intellectual property, and dispute shared their ideas and thoughts on legal issues and countermeasures to crisis in connection with the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic. 
 
Topics for discussion included: 
 
△ Legal Developments Impacting the Supply of Medical Products and the Provision of Healthcare in Korea/ Bernard K. HAM 
△ Practical advice for dealing with COVID-19 as a force majeure event/ Hoon LEE, Senior Foreign Attorney at Jipyong 
△ How Korea is tracking cases of Corona without violating Privacy Laws/ John C. W. RO, Senior Foreign Attorney at Jipyong 
△ Staff reductions and layoffs/ Jane Young SOHN, Senior Foreign Attorney at Jipyong 
△ Surviving COVID-19: Developments in Korean Debt Financing/ Genny S. KIM, Senior Foreign Attorney at Jipyong 
△ How corona affected litigation and dispute resolution in Korea/ Jinhee KIM, Senior Foreign Attorney/ Head of Global Dispute Resolution Practice at Jipyong 
 
Jinhee KIM, the head of Global Dispute Resolution Practice said, “LEGAL 500 suggested Jipyong to hold this webinar because Jipyong has provided legal advice and information on issues related to COVID-19 at an early stage. We hope that this webinar can provide practical information to domestic and foreign companies suffering from the pandemic.

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