Wookeun Lee is a Senior Legal Counsel of ClassHankyul, and he mainly handles civil/criminal, administrative, patent, and corporate law matters.
Attorney Lee was formerly the head of the Seoul Central District Court (and head of the Seoul Administrative Court), head of the Incheon District Court, head of Chuncheon District Court, Senior Chief Judge of the Seoul High Court, Senior Professor of the Judicial Research and Training Institute, Researcher with the Supreme Court, and Litigation Officer of the Office of Court Administration. After retiring as a judge, Attorney Lee served as a Representative Attorney of the Han Seung Law Firm and the Chungjeong Law Firm. Attorney Lee also served as the Chair of the National Assembly Ethics Committee, Central Land Tribunal, Personal Information Dispute Mediation Committee, Private School Dispute Mediation Committee, and Seoul Metropolitan Election Management Committee, as well as being a member of the Press Arbitration Committee, a director of the Seoul Arts Center, an auditor of the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts, a director of the Korea Classical Translation Institute, and a columnist for JoongAng Ilbo and Gukdong Broadcasting. Attorney Lee is currently a professor at Sookmyung Women’s University, a director of the Ewha School, a columnist with the LA Chosun Ilbo, Chair of the Human Rights Commission of the International PEN Club Korea Headquarters, Chair of Moon Human Rights Advocacy Committee of the Korea Writers Association, and an honorary director of the Seoul National Symphony Orchestra.
Books and articles include Era When Fools are Missed / Confessions of an Unbeliever / Christianity that Needs Tolerance / Why is Love in Low Places (included in middle school 3rd year Korean literature textbooks) / Research on Euthanasia / Confessions of Accomplices and Corroborating Evidence / Administrative Dispositions and Discretionary Rules.
Overview
Experience
- 1979 ~ 1996 Judge, (Cheongju, Suwon, and Seoul Southern District Court, Seoul Civil District Court, Seoul High Court)
- 1986 ~ 1988 Litigation Officer, Office of Court Administration
- 1988 ~ 1990 Researcher, Supreme Court
- 1990 ~ 1996 District Court Chief Judge, (Cheongju, Suwon, and Seoul Southern District Court, Seoul Civil District Court)
- 1996 ~ 1999 Chief Judge, Daegu High Court
- 1999 ~ 2000 Senior Chief Judge, Incheon District Court
- 2000 ~ 2001 Senior Professor, Judicial Research and Training Institute
- 2001 ~ 2004 Chief Judge and Senior Chief Judge, Seoul High Court
- 2004 ~ 2005 Head of Chuncheon District Court and Incheon District Court
- 2005 ~ 2006 Head of Seoul Administrative Court
- 2006 ~ Head of Seoul Central District Court (and Head of Seoul Administrative Court)
- Present Senior Legal Counsel, ClassHankyul
Education
- 1967 Gyeonggi High School
- 1971 Seoul National University College of Law (LL.B.)
- 1975 Seoul National University Graduate School of Law (LL.M.)
- 1987 US Washington State University Law School
- 1990 Seoul Presbyterian University and Theological Seminary Theology Department
- 2011 Honorary Doctor of Theology, Westminster Theological Seminary
Representative Matters
- Partial success in Taean oil spill civil trial, success in case involving dispute over managerial control of OOO historical corporation
- Success in administrative case seeking cancellation of administrative disposition relating to OO city housing construction project
- Not guilty verdict in criminal case involving violations of the Attorney-at-Law Act by minister OOO and superintendent bribery case involving OO
- Not guilty verdict in case involving violations of the Public Official Election Act by governor of OO
- Success in domestic trademark dispute case regarding the registered trademark OOO
- Execution of OO station area development project (Korea OO Corporation, OO Consortium)
- Success in administrative case seeking cancellation of administrative disposition relating to OO city housing construction project
- Not guilty verdict in criminal case involving violations of the Attorney-at-Law Act by minister OOO and superintendent bribery case involving OO
- Not guilty verdict in case involving violations of the Public Official Election Act by governor of OO
- Success in domestic trademark dispute case regarding the registered trademark OOO
- Execution of OO station area development project (Korea OO Corporation, OO Consortium)
Publications
- Era When Fools are Missed
- Confessions of an Unbeliever
- Christianity that Needs Tolerance
- Why is Love in Low Places (included in middle school 3rd year Korean literature textbooks) Research on Euthanasia
- Confessions of Accomplices and Corroborating Evidence
- Administrative Dispositions and Discretionary Rules.
Wookeun Lee
Senior Legal Counsel
T. +82-2-2251-7508
F. +82-2-555-5008
E. leegadfly@classhklaw.com