Won Kim > Kim & Chang > Seoul, South Korea > Lawyer Profile
Kim & Chang Offices
39 SAJIK-RO 8-GIL
JONGNO-GU
SEOUL 03170
South Korea
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Won Kim
Work Department
Intellectual Property; Game, Resort & Entertainment; Japan; Intellectual Property Dispute; Metaverse, Blockchain & Digital Assets; Trade Secret & Corporate Information Protection; Employee Invention
Career
Won Kim is an attorney at Kim & Chang. He practices primarily in the areas of intellectual property, with a focus on patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret. He also has extensive experience in the IT, entertainment and game industries.
Throughout his career, Mr. Kim has been actively involved in many civil and criminal cases relating to intellectual property and technical issues. In the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice, Mr. Kim assists clients on a broad range of matters, including IP strategy, licensing, negotiation, as well as regulatory issues. Mr. Kim also represents a wide range of companies in the IT, entertainment and game industries, specializing in regulations, licensing, establishment of new business operations in Korea and dispute/litigation.
Mr. Kim has an engineering background, having received B.Eng. from College of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University in 1995, and M.S. from Graduate School of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University in 1997. After passing the Korean Bar examination in 2001, he attended the Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea for two years, and was awarded the Minister of Justice Prize, which is the second award of the Institute, in 2005.
Mr. Kim also received an LL.M. from University of San Diego School of Law in 2012. After receiving the LL.M., he worked at TMI Associates, a law firm located in Tokyo, Japan, for three months before returning to Kim & Chang.
Languages
Korean, English and Japanese
Memberships
Admitted to bar, Korea, 2005
Education
University of San Diego, School of Law (LL.M., 2012)
Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (2005)
Graduate School of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University (M.S., 1997)
Seoul National University (B.Eng., Mechanical Engineering, 1995)
Lawyer Rankings
South Korea > Intellectual property: local firms
(Leading individuals)Kim & Chang continues to prove itself as an excellent adviser in all matters relating to IP, including copyrights, patents, trade secrets, domain names, and unfair competition. The team is led by managing partner Jay (Young-June) Yang, a ‘top tier lawyer’ with over 40 years of experience across all areas of IP law. Young Kim specialises in patent law and has extensive experience handling infringement cases, with key expertise in the biotech and pharmaceutical sectors. Chul Hwan Jung stands out for his work on various IP matters within the firm’s mechanical practice, alongside Won Kim, who regularly handles IP matters relating to IT, trade secrets, and entertainment industries. Having previously served as a judge in the IP High Court, Minjung Park brings her expertise to patent litigation and is especially recommended for trademark cases. Other key exceptional members of the team include In Hwan Kim, Monica Hyon Kyong Leeu, Kang Kwan, and associate Jongmin Lee.
Lawyer Rankings
- Intellectual property: local firms South Korea
- Leading individuals South Korea > Intellectual property: local firms
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Antitrust and competition: local firms
- Banking and finance: local firms
- Capital markets: local firms
- Corporate and M&A: local firms
- Dispute resolution: local firms
- Fintech and financial services regulatory: local firms
- Insurance: local firms
- Intellectual property: local firms
- International arbitration
- Labour and employment: local firms
- Projects and energy: local firms
- Real estate: local firms
- Regulatory: compliance and investigations: local firms
- Shipping: local firms
- Tax: local firms
- TMT: local firms