One of the issues created by the Internet concerns the right to delete what one has posted on the web ...

While Gilkron's General Counsel looks at ways technology can aid in-house counsel in 'IP can be both easy and hard to find', Yoon & Yang focus on the implications of new technology in 'Regulation of personal information in new fields'.

On February 4, 2016, the “Special Act on Revitalising Companies” (the Act) was passed by the National Assembly of Korea as temporary legislation ...

On January 22, 2016, the Ministry of Employment and Labour (MOEL) announced Guidelines on Fair Employee Evaluations and Guidelines ...

Managing Director and Head, Group Legal and Secretariat at DBS Bank Sue Lynn Koo discusses her career trajectory, the importance of out-of-the-box thinking and how technology is both a blessing and a curse for her role. She also gives advice to external counsel she wishes she'd heard when she was one, and reveals the best advice she's ever been given.

Focussing on topics such as big data, cloud computing and healthcare, Wonil Kim, Kwang-Wook Lee and Ji Hye Seol of Yoon & Yang examine how new technologies will affect personal information regulation in South Korea.

On November 15, 2015, an amendment to the Korean Commercial Code (the KCC) was announced. The amendment, which will take effect in February 2016...

Many multinational companies doing business in Korea perceive the country’s labour law as strict and heavily favouring workers. The Labour Standards Act of Korea (LSA) nullifies “at-will” employment ...

Start-ups and small companies attempting to grow their businesses globally are increasingly receiving warning letters ...

Recently in Seoul, ASIAN-MENA COUNSEL’s Patrick Dransfield photographed Kap-You (Kevin) Kim, head and founder of Bae, Kim & Lee’s Arbitration Group and also put to him a series of questions on behalf of the In-House Community.

Issuance of a cease and desist letter is usually recognised as the first step to be taken by a patentee against an alleged infringer in a patent infringement dispute in Korea. A warning letter to an alleged infringer ...

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) that operate or contemplate operating multinational businesses in Korea need to be aware of recent changes in the Adjustment of International Taxes Act of Korea ...

Under the previous version of the Commercial Building Lease Protection Act (the Act), a commercial tenant could lose the value of its ‘leasehold premium’ (kwon-ri-gum in Korean), which is the monetary ...

Seoul law firm Bae, Kim & Lee (BKL) has established a new office in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong office will boast 450 lawyers and is BKL's 4th overseas branch, adding to its offices in Beijing ...