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Brian Tae-Hyun Chung

+82 2 3703 1078 thchung@kimchang.com View profile

Work Department

Antitrust & Competition; Privacy & Data Security; Game, Resort & Entertainment; Technology, Media & Telecommunications

Career

Brian Tae-Hyun Chung is a foreign attorney at Kim & Chang. He practices primarily in antitrust and competition, privacy and game, resort and entertainment. He has extensive experience in advising clients in the technology and game industries, as well as tobacco, chemical and retail distribution industries.

As a member of the firm’s Antitrust & Competition Practice, Mr. Chung has vast experience on all aspects of competition law issues, including, investigations by the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) into violations of the competition law and global merger filings for inbound and outbound M&A transactions. Mr. Chung also handles complex competition law litigations, especially those involving advanced technology and data issues.

In addition, as a member of the firm’s Privacy & Data Security Practice, Mr. Chung provides clients with expert assistance in privacy and data protection matters, specializing in compliance with Korean privacy laws and administrative, criminal and civil proceedings arising out of data breach cases, with particular focus on privacy and data security issues in artificial intelligence.

Mr. Chung is also a member of the firm’s Game, Resort & Entertainment Practice, specializing in game and entertainment industries. Mr. Chung assists clients in the game and interactive entertainment industries with their compliance with Korean game regulations, as well as issues arising out of their daily operation in the Korean game market. Mr. Chung also works with clients in the traditional entertainment industry, helping them with such matters as production of movies and TV shows in Korea.

Mr. Chung has co-authored various publications, including Practical Law Data Privacy Advisor – Information Security Considerations / Cyber Incident Response and Data Breach Notification (Co-author, Thomson Reuters, 2019, 2021), Information Security Considerations: South Korea (Co-author, Thomson Reuters, 2018).

For his accomplishments, Mr. Chung is consistently listed as a Leading Individual by Chambers Asia-Pacific, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, Who’s Who Legal: Korea, and Asialaw.

Mr. Chung received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1996 and his B.A. in physics from Cornell University in 1993. He is admitted to the New York bar.

Languages

English and Korean

Memberships

Admitted to bar, New York, 1997

Education

Columbia Law School (J.D., 1996)
Cornell University (B.A., cum laude, 1993)