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Daesung Kim

Attorney at Law

T. +82-2-2251-7514

F. +82-2-555-5008

E. dskims@classhklaw.com

Overview

A Partner Attorney with the ClassHankyul, Attorney Kim has over 30 years of litigation experience, including 20 years of judicial experience, with a focus on construction, real estate, intellectual property, and family law in the civil realm and property crimes, election crimes, sex crimes, etc., in the criminal realm, and has recently been involved in M&A, corporation sales (including derivative litigation), attracting investment, etc.

While a judge, Daesung Kim was the Presiding Judge of the Dedicated Construction Department and the Dedicated Intellectual Property Department, and while being the Presiding Judge of the Dedicated Intellectual Property Department, became a graduate student at KAIST, eventually graduating with a Masters in Engineering, and is now handling patent cases for KEPCO, among other cases, as an attorney.
In addition, Dae-sung Kim has experience with election law as the chairman of the Election Management Committees of Seongju-gun, Jung-gu in Daegu, Yongsan-gu in Seoul, Jongro-gu, Seongnam-si, and Chuncheon-si during Attorney Kim’s tenure as a judge, and before returning as an attorney, also handled cases involving violations of the Public Official Election Act by heads of local government.   Daesung Kim handles litigation and legal advice with respect to real estate development projects, city improvement projects, etc., and has published papers on tax research, inventions related to duties, punishment of digital sex crimes, etc., while serving as a judge. 

Experience

  1. 1987 Passed 29th Bar Exam
  2. 1988 ~ 1990 Enlisted as graduate-level officer, Judicial Research and Training Institute (19th Class)
  3. 1990 ~ 1998 Central International Patent Law Firm
  4. 2000 ~ 2007 Judge and Chief Judge, Daegu District Court, Daegu High Court, Uijeongbu District Court
  5. 2007 ~ 2011 Chief Judge, Suwon District Court Seongnam Branch, Seoul Southern District Court
  6. 2011 ~ 2016 Chief Judge, Seoul Central District Court, Seoul Northern District Court
  7. 2016 ~ 2019 Chief Judge, Suwon District Court
  8. 2019 ~ 2021 Chief Judge, Chuncheon District Court
  9. 2021 ~ Present Attorney at Law, Class Law Firm, ClassHankyul
  10. 2022 ~ Present Advisory Attorney, KEPCO
  11. Advisory Attorney, Korea Technology Finance Corporation
  12. Advisory Attorney, Kimpo Main Biz
  13. Technology Protection Expert (pool), Regional Intellectual Property Center
  14. Advisory Attorney, Ogeum Regional Taxi Association

Education

  1. 1980 Daegu Shimin High School
  2. 1985 Seoul National University College of Law (LL.B.)
  3. 1988 Seoul National University Graduate School of Law
  4. 1999 LLM US UC Berkeley
  5. 2018 Masters of Engineering, KAIST

Representative Matters

- S Construction Company construction cost, G Construction Company damages litigation
- T real estate developer service fee claim litigation
- Civil, criminal litigation involving regional housing association progress committees
- Governance dispute litigation involving sale of corporations such as confirmation of director dismissal, application for convocation of extraordinary shareholders’ meeting, shareholders’ right confirmations, etc., involving the CH Construction Company
- Annulment, divorce, and asset distribution litigation
- Fraud, embezzlement, breach of trust, sex crimes cases 
- Violations of the Public Official Election Act by current and former heads of regional governments
- Applications for arbitration, patent litigation, legal advice for KEPCO 
- Legal advice for the Korea Technology Finance Corporation 
- Consultations and litigation involving real estate development investments

Publications

- Sole criminal judgments in appeals of criminal cases
- Research on punishments for digital sex crimes
- Legal issues involving imposed taxes
- Research on compensation for inventions related to duties