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Suyeon Jung

Kwon & Co, South Korea

Work Department

Shipping, Marine Insurance

Position

Senior Associate

Career

As a Senior Associate of Kwon & Co., Suyeon Jung has assisted Tae Il Kwon in most of the prominent cases at Kwon & Co. and has received good outcomes.

Having lived in the United States for 4 years, she has excellent command of English which is very helpful in providing legal opinions to foreign clients of Kwon & Co. which comprises about 80% of Kwon & Co.’s work.

Suyeon Jung has been especially accumulating huge volume of experience in various issues on the vessel crew/stevedores, especially regarding work related and non-work related disease concerning Korean Seafarers’ Act. She has also dealt with numerous vessel arrest cases in Korea; based on her professional and prompt response to the cases, she has never failed in arresting or releasing the vessels so far since her years in Kwon & Moon.

She has also worked with many Hanjin Shipping bankruptcy cases representing Hanjin Shipping’s creditors; by assisting Tae Il Kwon, Kwon & Co. has received very good outcomes in retrieving foundation credits regarding time-charterparties.

Languages

Korean, English

Memberships

Korean Bar Association

Education

Jan. 2017 - Present : Law Offices Kwon & Co.Apr. 2014 – Dec. 2016 : Law Offices Kwon & Moon

2014 : Passed the Bar Exam, Korea2014 : Yonsei University Law School2009 : Seoul National University (B.A. in International Relations, Minor in Law)

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