Barun Law

Managing Partner

Experience

2020 ~ Present Managing Partner, Barun Law LLC

2018 ~ 2020 Attorney, Kim Hyun Woong Law Office

2015 ~ 2016 The 64th Minister of Justice of the Republic of Korea

2015 Chief Prosecutor, Seoul High Prosecutors’ Office

2013 ~ 2015 Vice Minister of Justice of the Republic of Korea

2013 Chief Prosecutor, Busan High Prosecutors’ Office

2012 ~ 2013 Chief Prosecutor, Gwangju High Prosecutors’ Office

2011 ~ 2012 Chief Prosecutor, Seoul Western District Prosecutors’ Office

2010 ~ 2011 Chief Prosecutor, Chuncheon District Prosecutors’ Office

2009 ~ 2010 Deputy Chief Prosecutor, Busan High Prosecutors’ Office

2009 Senior Prosecutor of the Criminal Department, Seoul High Prosecutors’ Office

2008 ~ 2009 Deputy Chief Prosecutor, Incheon District Prosecutors’ Office

2007 ~ 2008 Head of Office of Policy and Planning, Ministry of Justice

2006 ~ 2007 Senior Prosecutor of Special Investigation 1 Department, Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office

2004 ~ 2006 Deputy Director General of Legal Affairs, Ministry of Justice

2003 ~ 2004 Prosecutor, Busan High Prosecutors’ Office (Secondment to Korea Deposit Insurance Corporation)

2002 ~ 2003 Head of Criminal and Civil Litigation Department, Supreme Prosecutors’ Office of the Republic of Korea

2001 ~ 2002 Senior Prosecutor of Special Investigation Department, Gwangju District Prosecutors’ Office

2000 ~ 2001 Chief Prosecutor of Sokcho Branch of Chuncheon District Prosecutors’ Office

1997 ~ 2000 Research Officer, Supreme Prosecutors’ Office of the Republic of Korea

1994 ~ 1997 Prosecutor, Seoul District Prosecutors’ Office

1992 ~ 1994 Prosecutor, Mokpo Branch of Gwangju District Prosecutors’ Office

1990 ~ 1992 Prosecutor, Busan District Prosecutors’ Office

Korean, English, Chinese

Admitted to the Bar, South Korea (1987)

1995 ~ 1996 Visiting Scholar, Peking University Law School (as overseas training for prosecutors)

1987 Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (16th)

1984 Passed the Bar Exam (26th)

1992 Seoul National University Graduate School (Commercial Law, LL.M.)

1982 College of Law, Seoul National University

1977 Gwangju Jeil High School