Kim & Chang

Antitrust & Competition; International Trade & Customs; International Arbitration & Cross-Border Litigation; China; Economic Sanctions

Youngjin Jung is Co-Chair of Kim & Chang’s antitrust and competition law practice. Dr. Jung has significant experience in all areas of antitrust enforcement in merger control, international cartel and abuse of market dominance (including abuse cases of major global technology companies) in major industries such as the technology and IT sectors. He also leads the firm’s international trade practice (including trade remedies, WTO/FTA and sanctions).

Dr. Jung was a visiting professor at Duke Law School and an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law School and Seoul National University School of Law. He has served as a Non-Governmental Advisor (NGA) for the ICN, and has served as an Officer of IBA International Antitrust Committee and a member of the International Cartel Task Force at ABA Section of Antitrust. He has also worked as the vice-chair of the International Antitrust Committee of ABA Section of International Law, and was President of the Korean Society of International Economic Law (2018-2019). Dr. Jung is a founding member of the Asia-Pacific Competition Community (APCC), and currently the vice chair of APCC’s international cartel committee.

Dr. Jung was a legal advisor for the Korea-US/Korea-EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA) as a member of various advisory boards of the Korea Fair Trade Commission and the Korea Communication Commission. He has also participated as a member of the Korean delegation in the OECD competition committee and the WTO Working Party on Interactions between Trade and Competition. He is a registered arbitrator at the World Bank’s ICSID Arbitration Panel and the Korea Commercial Arbitration Board and is also currently a registered panelist at Korea-US FTA’s dispute settlement body. He worked as an executive member of the IBA Trade and Customs Committee. He also worked at the International Trade Ministry and is the current president of the Korean Society of International Economic Law.

Dr. Jung has authored numerous articles on competition law and international trade, including an ABA Treatise entitled “Competition Laws outside the United States” (co-authored, 2011); “Cartel Enforcement Worldwide” (Cambridge University Press, 2009); “How Far WTO Should Reach into Income Tax Policies” (Journal of International Taxation, 2005); ABA’s Handbook on Antitrust in Technology Industries (co-authored, 2017); and “How Intellectual Property Rights Interact with Competition Law and Policy in Korea: QUO VADIS?” (Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, 2018). In 2021, Dr. Jung published an article in the Korean Journal of Competition titled, “Lina Khan: ‘The Theory of the End of Antitrust History’ and the New Brandeis Movement.”

He has been consistently listed in The International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers, The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers and Chambers Asia-Pacific. He has also consistently been listed as a leading lawyer in WTO and International Trade in Chambers Global, Euromoney, and Who's Who International of Customs and Trade lawyers. He was also noted as a leading expert in Technology, Media and Telecommunication by Euromoney.

Korean and English

Admitted to bar, Korea, 1993; New York, 2001

Yale Law School (LL.M., 2000; J.S.D., 2003) Passed the Higher Civil Service Examination on Foreign Affairs (1996) Passed the Higher Civil Service Examination on Government Administration (1996) Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (1993) College of Law, Seoul National University (LL.B., 1991)