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Global: VILAF and Yoon & Yang Launch Vietnam - Korea Practice Unit

25 November 2025 by VILAF - Vietnam

VILAF and Yoon & Yang have entered into a professional collaboration, whereby VILAF will host senior legal professionals from Yoon & Yang on secondment to establish a Vietnam – Korea Practice Unit in VILAF’s Ho Chi Minh City and Ha Noi offices, creating a dedicated platform to provide high-quality legal services to Korean businesses navigating through complex legal matters in Vietnam. This initiative aims to enhance cross-border understanding of legal practices and foster stronger cultural and professional ties between the two top-tier firms.
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South Korea: Lee & Ko Secures Complete Victory in Short Selling Case

01 October 2025 by Lee & Ko - South Korea

Lee & Ko is truly excited to share a follow up on the financial industry related high profile criminal case in Korea, where Lee & Ko continued to successfully secure a not guilty judgment at the appellate court for our client, a global banking and financial services company.
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South Korea: Court Denies Worker Dispatch Relationship Between Quasi-Governmental Agency and Contractor Employees

18 September 2025 by Kim & Chang - South Korea

The Cheongju District Court issued a ruling on April 9, 2025, denying a worker dispatch relationship between the plaintiffs, who were employees of Company B (i.e., a contractor that performed agricultural waste disposal services, the “Plaintiffs”), and Agency A (i.e., a quasi-governmental agency, the “Defendant”) (Cheongju District Court Decision 2022Gahap52546, April 9, 2025).
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South Korea: Kim & Chang Successfully Represents Defendant in Soil Contamination Litigation Involving Large-Scale Development Site in Busan

18 September 2025 by Kim & Chang - South Korea

Kim & Chang’s Environment Practice successfully won a case in its entirety on behalf of Company H, a large corporation in the shipbuilding and construction sector. This case was initiated by Company A, a real estate development company, against Company H at the Busan District Court, seeking costs of soil remediation and compensation for damages.

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South Korea: Kim & Chang Obtains Favorable Decision Denying Establishment of Worker Dispatch Relationship Between Public Institution and Subcontractor’s Employees

17 July 2025 by Kim & Chang - South Korea

On July 10, 2024, the Daegu High Court, Civil Division 2 (Presiding Judge, Tae-hyun Kim) rendered a judgment denying the establishment of a worker dispatch relationship between Public Institution A and the plaintiffs, who were workers of a subcontractor entrusted with performing facility maintenance work for Public Institution A (Daegu High Court Decision 2021Na21952, 21969 (consolidated) and 2021Na21976, all rendered on July 10, 2025).
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South Korea: Kim & Chang Successfully Defends Pharmbio Korea’s Patent for Orafang (Bowel Cleanser Tablet)

09 June 2025 by Kim & Chang - South Korea

Kim & Chang’s Intellectual Property Practice successfully represented Pharmbio Korea Inc. (“Pharmbio Korea”), a domestic pharmaceutical company, in two patent invalidation lawsuits related to bowel cleanser tablets. The team secured victories at both the Intellectual Property Trial and Appeal Board (the “IPTAB”) and the Intellectual Property High Court (the “IP High Court”) by demonstrating that the two patents in question (the “Subject Patents”) could not have been easily developed by a person of ordinary skill in the art based on the prior art inventions.
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South Korea: Kim & Chang Won Major Lawsuit Challenging KFTC’s Ruling That Platform Company’s Algorithmic Business Model Constituted Abuse of Market Dominance and Unfair Trade Practices

29 May 2025 by Kim & Chang - South Korea

Kim & Chang secured a complete victory for a leading Korean mobility platform company (the “Plaintiff”) in a lawsuit against the Korea Fair Trade Commission (the “KFTC”). The lawsuit sought to revoke the KFTC’s corrective order and a fine of approximately KRW 27.1 billion. The KFTC had argued that the Plaintiff abused its market dominance by using an algorithm to unfairly favor its member taxis. The Seoul High Court accepted our arguments and overturned the KFTC’s dispositions entirely.
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South Korea: Lee & Ko Named “South Korea Firm of the Year” at Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific Awards 2025

27 May 2025 by Lee & Ko

Lee & Ko received the honor of “South Korea Firm of the Year” at the Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific Awards 2025.
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South Korea: Glenwood Private Equity’s Acquisition of SK pucore

30 August 2024 by Kim & Chang - South Korea

Kim & Chang advised Glenwood Private Equity (“PE”) in connection with its acquisition of SK pucore Co., Ltd from SKC Ltd.
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South Korea: Lee & Ko Advised on the First Innovative Financial Service Involving the Trust Beneficiary Certificates Following the Announcement of the Guidelines on Security Tokens

26 June 2024 by Lee & Ko - South Korea

Following the Financial Services Commission (FSC)’s announcement of the “Measures to Overhaul Regulations to Permit Issuance and Circulation of Security Tokens” in February 2023, the first financial service related to the issuance and circulation of trust beneficiary certificates linked to blockchain tokens was designated as an innovative financial service on April 30, 2024 (the Innovative Financial Service).

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