Kim & Chang

Antitrust & Competition; Corporate Governance & Shareholder Disputes; Mergers & Acquisitions; Foreign Direct Investment; Private Equity

Jung-Won Hyun’s practice areas include the defense of antitrust investigations, merger notifications, and other cross-border corporate transactions. Since joining the firm in 2000, she continues to be extensively involved in providing corporate and antitrust counseling to both foreign and domestic firms in Korea.

Ms. Hyun has been the leading counsel in major merger control cases involving remedies issued by the KFTC, with her professional work and expertise widely recognized: she received the “Best in Competition and Antitrust” award at Euromoney’s Asia Women in Business Law Awards in 2017 and was recently recognized by Who’s Who Legal as one of the Leading Competition Lawyers in Korea (2019-2023), by Euromoney’s Asialaw as one of the Leading Lawyers, Competition/Antitrust (2022-2023) and by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific as one of the Next Generation Partners, Competition/Antitrust (2023).

Ms. Hyun studied in the Mass Communications Department at Seoul National University for two years before continuing in her education at Columbia College where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1993. She graduated from the School of Law at Columbia University in 1997, where she served as a note editor in the Asian Law Journal. Ms. Hyun is admitted to the bar in the State of New York.

Ms. Hyun speaks Korean, English and Japanese.

Korean, English and Japanese

Admitted to bar, New York, 1998

School of Law, Columbia University (J.D., 1997) Columbia College, Columbia University (B.A., Political Science, 1993) Seoul National University (1989-1990)