[Invest&Law] Law Firm Gwangjang Establishes Platform Regulation Response Team

Over 30 Experts Participating in Tech, Fair Trade, and Labor Affairs

Law Firm Kwangjang Platform Regulation Response Team. Front row from left: Attorney Seungwan Ham, Foreign Attorneys Yuntae Hong and Seungjin Hong, Attorneys Suryun Kim, Sujin Jeong, and Hwangyeong Go, Advisor Seongcheol Jin. Back row from left: Attorneys Jeongyun Choi, Jeongwon Kwon, and Inseon Lee, Dr. Dongpyo Hong, Attorneys Hyunjung Cha, Byunggi Jeong, Jeongho Seon, Jaehun Choi, and Hyunjun Kim, Dr. Junmo Kang, Attorneys Ilsin Lee, Jiyeon Kim, and Jueun Shim.

Law firm Kwangjang (Chief Attorney Kim Sang-gon) has established a Platform Regulation Response Team composed of over 30 lawyers and experts to respond to the global trend of expanding platform regulations.

On the 31st, a Kwangjang official explained, "This team provides specialized legal services on various legal issues at all stages from legislation of platform regulations to enforcement responses, and aims to offer efficient legal advice throughout the entire process of platform-related companies' business initiation, operation, and expansion."

The co-team leaders are Attorneys Ko Hwang-gyeong (51, Judicial Research and Training Institute class 31) and Seon Jeong-ho (48, class 37). Attorney Ko, who graduated from Seondeok High School and Korea University Law School, has worked as a TMT (Technology, Media & Telecommunications) lawyer at Kwangjang for 23 years. Attorney Seon graduated from Daewon Foreign Language High School and Seoul National University Department of Public Law and has been continuously active at Kwangjang. As co-head of Kwangjang's Fair Trade Group, he has provided legal advisory services in numerous cases including platform sector mergers, responses to investigations by the Fair Trade Commission and foreign competition authorities.

The team members are currently composed mainly of 13 experts from the Fair Trade Group and 9 from the TMT Group to swiftly respond to core issues in platform regulation discussions such as antitrust, unfair trade practices regulation, and personal information regulation. Participants include Attorney Shim Ju-eun (49, class 31), who served for over 20 years at the Fair Trade Commission; Attorney Jeong Su-jin (47, class 32), a former high court judge in the Seoul High Court’s Fair Trade Division; Attorney Kim Su-ryeon (45, class 34), active in various platform-related fair trade cases; Attorney Kim Hyun-jun (47, class 32) and Attorney Kim Tae-ju (43, class 36), who provide advisory services in the innovative industry sector. Advisors Jin Seong-cheol, who held key positions at the Personal Information Protection Commission, Korea Communications Commission, and the Office for Government Policy Coordination, and Bae Chun-hwan, former head of the User Policy Division at the Korea Communications Commission, have also joined.

Additionally, to provide integrated legal services including rapid analysis of the platform market and responses to labor issues, Dr. Hong Dong-pyo and Dr. Kang Jun-mo, who concurrently serve as the head and deputy head of Kwangjang Capital Economic Consulting Group (CECG), foreign attorneys Hong Seung-jin and Hong Yoon-tae from the Legislative Consulting Group, and Attorneys Ham Seung-wan (49, class 35) and Choi Jae-hoon (49, class 37) from the HR and Labor Group have also joined.

Reporter Jo Han-ju, Legal Times

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