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Kim & Chang
39 SAJIK-RO 8-GIL
JONGNO-GU
SEOUL 03170
South Korea

Work Department

Labor & Employment; Corporate Investigations & White Collar Defense

Career

Sung Won Hong is an attorney in the firm’s White Collar Criminal Defense and Labor and Employment Practice Group.

Before joining the firm in 2014, Mr. Hong served as a public prosecutor for 8 years and as staff of the Secretary to the President for Civil Affairs for 1 year. Throughout his career, Mr. Hong developed expertise in a wide range of criminal law matters including white collar crime, election and labor law offenses.

Languages

Korean and English

Memberships

Admitted to bar, Korea, 2002

Education

Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (2002)
Department of Political Science, Seoul National University (2000)

Lawyer Rankings

South Korea > Regulatory: compliance and investigations: local firms

(Next Generation Partners)

Sung Won Hong – Kim & Chang

Kim & Chang‘s market-leading practice handles the full breadth of corporate investigations and white-collar defence work, and evidences broad sector expertise. Highly esteemed criminal defence lawyer Kook Hyun Yoo leads the practice, and continues to be involved in major corporate criminal investigations. Criminal defence expert Ho Keun Ryu handles occupational negligence and criminal investigations into tax evasion, while Sung Won Hong focuses on cases within industrials and manufacturing and consumer goods industries. Senior associate Miji Song advises on corporate investigations, anti-corruption prosecution, and compliance cases for both public and private companies.