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Sung Kook KANG

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Mr. Sung Kook Kang completed his training at the Judicial Research and Training Institute in 1991 and served as a judge advocate in the army. Since he joined the bench in 1994, he served as a judge of district court and Seoul High Court, and a law clerk of the Supreme Court. After he served as a presiding judge of the Seoul Central District Court and the Seoul Northern District Court, he retired from the bench and joined Jipyong in March 2015.

In July 2020, he was appointed as the Deputy Minister of Legal Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Justice and then appointed as the Vice Minister of Justice. From July 2020 to May 2022, he handled an array of matters related to legal affairs and prosecution service, such as government legislation, prosecution service, immigration service, correctional service, crime prevention policies, etc. and came back to JIPYONG in July 2022.

During his 21 years of service as a judge, Mr. Kang handled various cases covering a wide range of areas including civil, criminal, corporate (commercial), finance, family affairs and administrative applications as a judge of Gwangju District Court, Uijeongbu District Court, Seoul Central District Court, Seoul Northern District Court, Seoul High Court, the Supreme Court, and others.

As a presiding judge, Mr. Kang adjudicated civil cases in the areas of finance, damage compensation, real estate, medical malpractice, environment, and international trade. He also handled various cases as a presiding judge responsible for the examination of warrant, a single judge in criminal cases, a presiding judge of the first instance collegiate division, and a presiding judge in appeal cases, etc. 

Mr. Kang has also served as professor at the Judicial Research and Training Institute and taught the classes of 2008, 2009 and 2010. All of his students have become judges, prosecutors, and attorneys contributing to the society. In addition, Mr. Kang has acquired a master’s degree in competition law and finished doctoral coursework in the Commercial Code.

Education Close

  • 2006Visiting Scholar, University of Washington Law School
  • 2005Korea University (Ph.D. Candidate in Commercial Law, coursework completion)
  • 1991Korea University (LL.M.)
  • 1988Korea University (LL.B.)

Experience Close

  • 2015-PresentJIPYONG LLC (Partner)
  • 2023-PresentChairperson, Korean Library Association Legal Committee
  • 2022-2024Chairperson, 21st Parliamentary Committee on Ethics in Public Life
  • 2022-2023Advisor, Korea Certified Public Labor Attorneys Association
  • 2021-2022Vice Minister, Ministry of Justice
  • 2020-2021Deputy Minister, Legal Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Justice
  • 2018-2020Adjunct Professor, Korea University School of law
  • 2017-2020Member, Central Administrative Appeals Commission
  • 2017-2020Arbitrator, Korea Commercial Arbitration Board
  • 2015-2020Member, Electronic Document/E-commerce Dispute Mediation Committee, Ministry of Science and ICT
  • 2015-2020JIPYONG LLC
  • 2013-2015Chief Judge, Seoul Northern District Court
  • 2010-2012Chief Judge, Seoul Central District Court
  • 2009-2010Chief Judge, Uijeongbu District Court
  • 2007-2008Professor, the Judicial Research and Training Institute
  • 2006-2007Chief Judge, Gwangju District Court
  • 2004-2006Judicial Researcher, the Supreme Court
  • 2002-2004Judge, Seoul High Court
  • 2001-2002Judge, Seoul Central District Court
  • 1999-2000Judge, Uijeongbu Branch Court under Seoul District Court
  • 1998-2014Head of each Election Commission for Dongducheon-si(1998), Guri-si(2009) and Jungnang-gu, Seoul
  • 1998-1999Judge, Yeoncheon-gun and Dongducheon-si Court of Uijeongbu Branch Court under Seoul District Court
  • 1996-1997Judge, Suncheon Branch Court of Gwangju District Court
  • 1994-1995Judge, Gwangju District Court
  • 1991Judge Advocate, the Republic of Korea Army
  • 1991Judicial Research and Training Institute, Supreme Court of Korea

Speaking Engagements and Publications Close

  • 2023Financial Consumer Protection Act Commentary (Co-author), Pakyoungsa
  • 2008The external auditor’s liability for damage compensation to a third party
  • 2006Purpose of having a company to make public announcement and notice when consolidating the shares under the Commercial Code and the effect of consolidation of shares made by a one-man company in fact without the foregoing announcement and notice
  • 2005Relationship between the dispositions of natural retirement and discipline (whether it is a duplicated discipline) and whether a justifiable cause is required in the case of disposition of natural retirement, annotation on a precedent
  • 2005He effect of nullification judgment (by a court giving the public notice to urge) made according to the deceptive request of a former bearer of a promissory note (who knew the current bearer who acquired the promissory note by fraud but pretended to have lost the promissory note and not to know its whereabouts), annotation on a precedent
  • 2004When a debtor purchased and registered a piece of real estate in his/her son’s name under the title trust and transferred it through payment in substitutes, whether the plaintiff as the creditor may seek cancellation of the title trust agreement based on a fraudulent act, cancellation of the title transfer registration and execution of title transfer registration assuming the rights of the debtor by subrogation, annotation on a precedent
  • 1998Circumstances Precluding Wrongfulness Related to Defamation
  • 1997Crime of Violence and Determination of Punishment
  • 1991Functions and Problems of Fair Trade Commission of Korea

Bar Admissions & Qualifications Close

  • 1991Korea

Languages Close

Korean / English

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