Education
Tokyo University Law School (Foreign Researcher, 1997-1998)
Harvard Law School (LL.M., 1997)
Graduate School of Law, Seoul National University (LL.M., 1991)
Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (1988)
College of Law, Seoul National University (LL.B., 1984)

Experience
Visiting Professor, Graduate School for Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo (2020.11.)
Adjunct Professor, Master’s Program in Intellectual Property, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) (2019-Present)
President, Korean Intellectual Property Lawyers’ Association (KIPLA) (2017.2.-2019.2.)
Lecturer, Hokkaido University Summer Seminar (2016-2019, 2021-2022)
Mediator, Patent Court of Korea (2016-Present)
Member, Judicial Administrative Advisory Committee, Patent Court of Korea (2015-Present)
Member, IP Hub Country Promotion Committee, National Assembly (2014.9.-Present)
President, IP Community of Seoul Bar Association (2014.3.-2017.3.)
Member, New IP Committee, National IP Committee (2011-2015)
Member, Economy Planning Advisory Committee, Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning (2013.5.-2015.2.)
Member, Internet Address Dispute Resolution Committee (2001-2010)
Korea Representative for Intellectual Property of the Korea-US Specialist Council (2000)
Kim & Chang (1991-Present)
Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu (1998)
Nakamura & Partners (1995)
Matsuo & Kosugi (1991)
Judge Advocate, Republic of Korea Army (1988-1991)

Research Interests
•    Intellectual Property, IP Litigation, IP Disputes, IP Counseling & Strategy
•    Licensing & IP Transactions, Trademark
•    Trade Secret & Corporate Information Protection
•    Japan, China

Publications(Books, Articles, etc.)
•    Cooperation between Patent Attorneys and Lawyers and Other Nationally Licensed Professionals in Korea (PATENT, 2021.12.)
•    Is Asian IP Court Feasible and Necessary?, Prism Intellectual Property (2018.6.)
•    Discussion on the Installation of International Trial Division, Journal of the Japanese Institute of International Business Law (2018.6.)
•    Supreme Court Overrules Both Lower Tribunals to Recognise Inventiveness, Intellectual Property Newsletter (Co-author, 2018)
•    Future of Intellectual Property (Co-author with Nobuhiro Nakayama, 2011)
•    Do We Have a World-class Standard of Judgment on Inventiveness?, Journal of Korea Information Law Vol. 13 No. 3 (2009.12.)
•    A Legal Relief of “Parallel Import of Genuine Goods” Through Korea Trade Commission, CIPIC Journal Vol. 129 (2002.10.)
•    Patent Law (written by Nobuhiro Nakayama) (Co-translator, 2001)