SOUTH KOREA Law and Practice Contributed by: Young Joon Chun, Kyu Dong Kim, Yong Whan Choi and Hyeon Jeong, Yulchon LLC
Yulchon LLC is a full-service international law firm headquartered in Seoul. It employs more than 820 professionals, including 82 who are licensed in ju - risdictions outside of Korea. Yulchon advises on a wide range of specialised practice areas, including
corporate and finance, antitrust, tax, real estate and construction, dispute resolution, intellectual property, and labour and employment. The firm’s perspective is international and its reach is global.
Authors
Young Joon Chun heads the tax group at Yulchon LLC and has more than 25 years’ tax experience. Before joining Yulchon, he served as a judge at Seoul Southern and Central District Courts. He has been considered one of the best Korean tax lawyers and tax litigators for many years.
Yong Whan Choi co-heads Yulchon LLC’s international tax team. He has more than 17 years’ tax experience, focusing particularly on transfer pricing, permanent establishment, beneficial ownership and royalty
issues involving ICT, global semiconductor and automotive clients. Before joining Yulchon, he served for three years as a government attorney representing the Korea National Tax Service in tax litigation.
Kyu Dong Kim co-heads Yulchon LLC’s international tax team and has more than 26 years’ tax experience. Before joining Yulchon, he worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP London from 2005 to 2008, and at Samil
Hyeon Jeong is a tax partner within Yulchon LLC’s tax group, with more than 13 years’ tax experience. He provides tax advisory services to multinational corporations across various industries, drawing upon his
PricewaterhouseCoopers from 2008 to 2011. He has deep experience in all cross-border tax matters, with a particular focus on ICT clients and structuring overseas fund investments into Korea and overseas investments of Korean companies. He is an active member of the Korean branch of the International Fiscal Association and a member of two investment committees of the National Pension Fund.
broad expertise in Korean tax law, foreign investment incentives, cross-border tax matters and Pillar 2 GloBE Rules. He is a member of the Korean cash grant evaluation committee and regularly participates in cash grant evaluation meetings for foreign investments.
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