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 ...

The Use and Protection of Credit Information Act (the Act) was recently amended and is scheduled to take effect on September 12, ...

When investing in a company by subscribing to new shares, the investor can pay the subscription price in cash or in kind. Contributions …

There has been a significant increase in the number of cases related to the issue of whether the exercise of intellectual property rights violated the Fair Trade Act. These cases have …

On December 17, 2014, the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) amended the review guidelines on unfair exercise of intellectual property rights (Revised Guidelines), effective December 24, 2014. …

On June 13, 2014, the Seoul Administrative Court ruled in favour of Lone Star Funds and ordered the tax office to refund US$117 million in taxes collected on the sale of a block of shares …

Our Anti-trust Report features contributions from Yulchon on 'Korea’s aggressive antitrust enforcement in financial product markets, and from Phoenix Legal on 'CCI's recent decision in the Indian automobile sector: fostering a level playing field'