Jipyong LLC

Labor & Employment Disputes; Industrial Health & Safety; Religion; Dispute Resolution; Construction & Real Estate Disputes; Criminal Defense; Family Law

Partner

Mr. Chang Young Kwon is a partner in Jipyong's Labor & Employment Group and mainly advises and represents clients in diverse areas of general corporate, labor relations, construction and real estate, shipping and aviation, civil and criminal law, public administration, trade disputes, and medial disputes.

Before joining Jipyong in March 2017, Mr. Kwon had served as a judge at numerous courts since his completion of training at the Judicial Research and Training Institution and being commissioned as an apprentice judge in 1999. Mr. Kwon resigned as the Chief Judge of Uijeongbu District Court.

During his 18-year service as a judge, Mr. Kwon handled many complex cases in various fields of law, including civil, commercial, criminal and administrative, preservation, tax, medical, religion, family, and insolvency cases at the Seoul High Court, Seoul Administrative Court, Seoul Western District Court, Seoul Southern District Court, Uijeongbu District Court, Chuncheon District Court, and Changwon District Court.

Since serving as a judge, Mr. Kwon has published professional papers on various issues. He published 33 books (12 books of his own work and 21 books under co-authorship) and more than 130 articles and papers.

Mr. Kwon has continued to pursue academic endeavors and has a Ph.D. in law from Seoul National University in the area of labor law. Mr. Kwon has also contributed to the publications of the Annotation for Labor Standards Act and the Annotation for the Trade Union and Labor Relations Adjustment Act. He is also the main author of Onju Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act, Onju Occupational Safety and Health Act, and Onju Act on the Punishment, etc. of Serious Accidents.

Mr. Kwon has also given numerous lectures on injunctions related to labor disputes at the Judicial Research and Training Institute since 2003. In addition, he has been taking charge of lectures on labor litigation practice and labor criminal law at the Seoul National University School of Law since 2019 and he collected results of the research that he conducted together with his students and published 'Research on the Serious Accidents Punishment Act I' in 2022.

Next, based on his many years of experience in trials on civil executions and applications (provisional seizures and injunctions), Mr. Kwon published a book titled 'Civil Preservation Law', which is regarded as the best academic book on the subject, and authored the 'Commentary to the Civil Execution Act Vol. 7'. Further, Mr. Kwon took the lead in publishing the 'Law and Practice Course Handbook – Civil Execution', which is the most authoritative handbook regarding civil executions in Korea. He has also been delivering lectures on preservative litigations to lawyers for many years.

Furthermore, Mr. Kwon has been steadily researching maritime law and aviation and space law and regularly publishing papers on the area. The 'Seafarers Act Guide' published in 2016, is considered a breakthrough in the field of maritime law. Mr. Kwon also trained future lawyers, prosecutors, and judges by lecturing on international aviation law at the Graduate School of Korea Aerospace University, working at the Aviation Noise Policy Forum and the Aviation Case Studies Research Group and publishing 5 specialized books on Aviation Law (1. Aviation Civil Law; 2. Aviation Labor Law; 3. Air Transport Law; 4. Aviation Administrative Law; and 5. Noise Prevention and Compensation Act).

Mr. Kwon provides Jipyong‘s clients with legal advice and services in a broad range of fields based on his diverse trial experiences and professional research achievements mentioned above.

Mr. Kwon has continued to pursue academic endeavors and has a Ph.D. in law from Seoul National University in the area of labor law. Mr. Kwon has also contributed to the publications of the Annotation for Labor Standards Act and the Annotation for the Trade Union and Labor Relations Adjustment Act. He is also the main author of Onju Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act, and Onju Occupational Safety and Health Act.

Mr. Kwon has also given numerous lectures on injunctions related to labor disputes at the Judicial Research and Training Institute since 2003, and on labor litigation practices at the Seoul National University School of Law since 2019.

In addition, based on his many years of experience in trials on civil executions and applications (provisional seizures and injunctions), Mr. Kwon published a book titled ‘Civil Preservation Law’, which is regarded as the best academic book on the subject, and authored the ‘Commentary to the Civil Execution Act Vol. 7’. Further, Mr. Kwon not only took the lead in publishing the ‘Law and Practice Course Handbook – Civil Execution’, which is the most authoritative handbook regarding civil executions in Korea, he has also been delivering lectures on preservative litigations to lawyers for many years.

Furthermore, Mr. Kwon has been steadily researching on maritime law and aviation and space law and regularly publishing papers on the area. The ‘Seafarers Act Guide’ published in 2016 is considered a breakthrough in the field of maritime law. Mr. Kwon has also been training future lawyers, prosecutors, and judges by lecturing on international aviation law at the Graduate School of Korea Aerospace University since 2019 and by publishing a tetralogy titled “Precedents in Aviation Law” (1. Aviation Civil Law; 2. Aviation Labor Law; 3. Aviation Transportation Law; and 4. Aviation Administrative Law).

Mr. Kwon provides Jipyong’s clients with legal advice and services in a broad range of fields based on his diverse trial experiences and professional research achievements mentioned above.

2017-Present / JIPYONG LLC

2024-Present / Legal Advisor, National Labor Relations Commission

2023-Present / Editor, Onju

2023-Present / Chairperson, Serious Disaster Advisory Committee, Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries

2020-Present / Legal Advisor, Ministry of Employment and Labor

2019-Present / Expert panel on labor dispute mediation for the ROK-EU Free Trade Agreement

2019-Present / Adjunct Professor, School of Law, Seoul National University

2019-Present / Auditor, Korea Aviation Noise Policy Forum

2017-Present / Member, State Litigation Appeal Deliberation Committee, Seoul High Public Prosecutors’ Office

2017-Present / Arbitrator, Korea Commercial Arbitration Board

2016-Present / Director of Academics, Korean Society of Air & Space Law and Policy

2015-Present / Information Director, Korea Maritime Law Association

2010-Present / Director of Finance, Association of Korean Civil Judgment Enforcement Law

2005-Present / Editorial Committee Member, Research Institute for Labor Act Practice under the Supreme Court

2022-2024 / Chairperson, Serious Accidents Advisory Committee, Supreme Prosecutors’ Office

2021-2024 / Legal Advisor, Korean Broadcasting System

2020-2021 / Member, Maritime Safety Law Forum, Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries

2019-2020 / Designated Attorney, Drone Regulation Sandbox

2019 / Advisor, Safety/Environment Advisory Board, Hyundai Steel

2019 / Advisor, Special Labor Safety Inquiry Commission for Coal-Fired Power Plants

2018-2024 / Member, the Statutory Interpretation Deliberation Committee under the Ministry of Government Legislation

2018-2021 / Member, the External Evaluation Committee under Korea Internet & Security Agency

2018-2020 / Member, Shipping Industry Committee under the Economic, Social and Labor Council

2017-2020 / Outside Expert, Special Contract (Fair Trade) Deliberation Committee, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. Ltd.

2017-2019 / Legal Member, Airport Noise Analysis Center, The Korea Transport Institute

2017-2018 / Tax/Legal advisor, Seoul Regional Tax Office

2016-2021 / Adjunct Professor, the Air & Space Law Department, Korea Aerospace University

2016-2017 / Chief Judge, Uijeongbu District Court

2014-2016 / Chief Judge, Changwon District Court

2012-2017 / Member, Law and Practice Course Handbook Series Publication Committee

2012-2014 / Judge, Seoul Western District Court

2010-2012 / Judge, Seoul High Court

2009-2010 / Judge, Seoul Southern District Court

2007-2009 / Judge, Seoul Administrative Court

2005-2006 / Member, Labor Dispute Resolution Research Council of Presidential Committee on Judicial Reform

2005-2007 / Judge, Seoul Western District Court

2002-2005 / Judge, Uijeongbu District Court

1999-2002 / Judge, Chuncheon District Court

1999-2001 / Apprentice Judge, Chuncheon District Court

Korean / English

1996 / Admitted to bar, Korea

2017 / Completed AMP at Graduate School of Journalism & Mass Communication (the 46th Session)

2016 / Completed the Advance Program for Culture & Art at Korea University Museum (the 19th Session)

2013 / Completed AIP at the College of Engineering, Seoul National University (the 49th Session)

2007 / Visiting Researcher, School of Law, The University of Texas at Austin

2008 / Seoul National University (Ph.D.)

2001 / Seoul National University (LL.M.)

1992 / Seoul National University (Graduated from the Department of Physics / Minored in Private Law)