Managing Partner

Experience 2020 ~ Present Managing Partner, Barun Law LLC 2018 ~ 2020 Attorney, Kim Hyun Woong Law Office 2015 ~ 2016 The 64th Minister of Justice of the Republic of Korea 2015 Chief Prosecutor, Seoul High Prosecutors’ Office 2013 ~ 2015 Vice Minister of Justice of the Republic of Korea 2013 Chief Prosecutor, Busan High Prosecutors’ Office 2012 ~ 2013 Chief Prosecutor, Gwangju High Prosecutors’ Office 2011 ~ 2012 Chief Prosecutor, Seoul Western District Prosecutors’ Office 2010 ~ 2011 Chief Prosecutor, Chuncheon District Prosecutors’ Office 2009 ~ 2010 Deputy Chief Prosecutor, Busan High Prosecutors’ Office 2009 Senior Prosecutor of the Criminal Department, Seoul High Prosecutors’ Office 2008 ~ 2009 Deputy Chief Prosecutor, Incheon District Prosecutors’ Office 2007 ~ 2008 Head of Office of Policy and Planning, Ministry of Justice 2006 ~ 2007 Senior Prosecutor of Special Investigation 1 Department, Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office 2004 ~ 2006 Deputy Director General of Legal Affairs, Ministry of Justice 2003 ~ 2004 Prosecutor, Busan High Prosecutors’ Office (Secondment to Korea Deposit Insurance Corporation) 2002 ~ 2003 Head of Criminal and Civil Litigation Department, Supreme Prosecutors’ Office of the Republic of Korea 2001 ~ 2002 Senior Prosecutor of Special Investigation Department, Gwangju District Prosecutors’ Office 2000 ~ 2001 Chief Prosecutor of Sokcho Branch of Chuncheon District Prosecutors’ Office 1997 ~ 2000 Research Officer, Supreme Prosecutors’ Office of the Republic of Korea 1994 ~ 1997 Prosecutor, Seoul District Prosecutors’ Office 1992 ~ 1994 Prosecutor, Mokpo Branch of Gwangju District Prosecutors’ Office 1990 ~ 1992 Prosecutor, Busan District Prosecutors’ Office

Education 1995 ~ 1996Visiting Scholar, Peking University Law School (as overseas training for prosecutors) 1987Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (16th) 1984Passed the Bar Exam (26th) 1992Seoul National University Graduate School (Commercial Law, LL.M.) 1982College of Law, Seoul National University 1977Gwangju Jeil High School