Moon & Song

Founding Partner

Sang Hwa Lee has worked as a lawyer for another Korean maritime law firm Choi & Kim and joined Moon & Song as a partner in 2017. He mainly deals with maritime law and shipping cases including oil pollution, ship collision, salvage, stranding, sinking, cargo damages, bill of lading, charterparties, marine insurance disputes and crew injury claims. He has acted for international shipowners, major Korean shipping companies and their insurers and P&I clubs such as North of England, Britannia, Gard, UK, Steamship Mutual, Japan P&I, Korea P&I, Korea Shipping Association. Sang Hwa Lee also has handled various shipbuilding contract disputes against Korean shipyards for refund guarantee disputes and dealt with a variety of cargo claims defending shipowners’ liability where he obtained successful outcomes. He acted for foreign shipowners in several Korean rehabilitation proceedings of Samsun Logix, Korea Line Corporation, STX Pan Ocean and Hanjin Shipping.

Kwang-Myeong Moon

His practicing areas are shipping, insurance, international trade, cross-border insolvency, international litigation & arbitration and he deals with a variety of cases including charterparty / BL disputes, cargo claims, crew injury, fire, explosion, collision, groundings, salvage, oil pollution, limitation, total loss. He has acted for international shipowners, their insurers and P&I Clubs including North of England, Britannia, Gard, UK, London, West of England, Steamship Mutual, American Club, Swedish P&I, Japan P&I, QBE Hong Kong & Shanghai Insurance, Korea P&I, Korea Shipping Association et al. He also acted for Korean major shipping companies such as Hyundai Merchant Marine, Hyundai Glovis, KMTC, Pan Ocean, Sinokor Merchant Marine, Dong-A Tanker. In the Hebei Spirit oil pollution case, the largest oil spill incident in the history of Korea, he acted as the legal adviser to the Korean government, the local county and the major group of claimants living in the most affected areas. KM Moon has represented foreign shipowners in cross-border insolvency cases arising from Korean rehabilitation proceedings of Samsun Logix, Korea Line Corporation, STX Pan Ocean and Hanjin Shipping under the instruction of the major FD&D Clubs.

Hun Song specializes in shipping, insurance, international trade, cross-border insolvency including disputes arising from charterparties, bill of lading, cargo claims, crew injury, fire, explosion, collision, oil pollution. He has acted for international shipowners and major Korean shipping company such as Hyundai Merchant Marine, Hyundai Glovis, KMTC, Pan Ocean. He has acted for P&I Clubs including North of England, Britannia, Gard, UK, London, West of England, Steamship Mutual, American Club, Swedish P&I, Japan P&I, QBE Hong Kong & Shanghai Insurance, Korea P&I, Korea Shipping Association et al. In the Hebei Spirit oil pollution case, the largest oil spill incident in the history of Korea, he acted for the major group of claimants living in the most affected areas. Hun Song also has acted for foreign shipowners in cross-border insolvency cases arising from Korean rehabilitation proceedings of Samsun Logix, Korea Line Corporation, STX Pan Ocean and Hanjin Shipping.