Lawyers

Seong-Soo Park

Seong-Soo Park

Kim & Chang, South Korea

Work Department

Intellectual Property; Litigation; Technology, Media & Telecommunications; Intellectual Property Litigation; Privacy & Data Security; Trade Secret & Corporate Information Protection; Product Liability & Consumer Claims; International Arbitration & Cross-Border Litigation; US

Career

Seong-Soo Park is an attorney in the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice, IT & Entertainment Practice and Litigation Practice.

Before joining Kim & Chang, Dr. Park served in the judiciary for 16 years, first as an associate district court judge, and later as a presiding judge. During his tenure as a judge, Dr. Park gained extensive experiences in a variety of litigations. While serving the Patent Court as a judge, and the Supreme Court as a research judge specializing in intellectual property matters, Dr. Park contributed to making numerous leading cases in the area of Intellectual Property. Dr. Park also served the Supreme Court as the directors’ general for international affairs.

Dr. Park specializes in cases relating to Intellectual Property, IT, Entertainment and Product Liability.

Languages

Korean, English and Japanese

Memberships

Admitted to bar, Korea, 1992; New York, 2002

Education

Graduate School of Engineering, Yonsei University (M.Eng., 2007)Graduate School of Law, Seoul National University (Ph.D., 2006)University of Michigan Law School (LL.M., 2000)Graduate School of Law, Seoul National University (LL.M., 1995)Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (1992)Seoul National University (LL.B., 1990)