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Weon Jung Kim

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Work Department

Labor & Employment; Serious Accidents Punishment Act

Career

Weon Jung Kim is an attorney at Kim & Chang. He practices primarily in labor and employment matter.

Mr. Kim has extensive experience, spanning over 30 years, in representing clients in all areas of employment and labor law. His specialty is in litigation and dispute resolution of employment and labor law issues before the court, Labor Relations Commission, labor office, and Human Rights Commission. In addition, Mr. Kim has substantial experience in dealing with industrial relations, collective bargaining and advising on labor-management council issues, and maintaining competitiveness for corporate clients in the marketplace. Mr. Kim routinely advises his multinational corporate clients on the labor/employment implications of cross-border transactions, ranging from mergers and acquisitions, post-merger HR integration planning, reductions-in-force and restructuring issues.

Mr. Kim has also played a key role in helping government authorities, including the Ministry of Labor and employment and Labor Relations Commission, to establish and further develop major areas of legislation or practices of Korean labor and employment law. Mr. Kim has directly influenced the development of Korean employment and labor laws in his capacity as advisor to the Ministry of Labor and employment in assessing and evaluating policies and authoritative interpretations of laws and regulations.

Prior to joining Kim & Chang, Mr. Kim worked as a judge advocate of Republic of Korea Army. He also participated in Foreign Lawyer Internship Program at Law Office of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker. Since 2010, he has served as a legal counsel of the Ministry of Employment and Labor.

Mr. Kim earned his LL.B. from Seoul National University and his LL.M. from School of Law, Columbia University. He also attended the Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea. He is admitted to the Korea bar.

Languages

Korean, English and Japanese

Memberships

Admitted to bar, Korea, 1983

Education

School of Law, Columbia University (LL.M., 1992)
Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (1983)
Seoul National University (LL.B., 1981)