ProfessionalsMr. Seuk Joon LeePartner• TEL_+82.2.528.5448• Email_leesj@yulchon.com<strong>Yulchon</strong>’s Antitrust TeamMr. Seuk Joon Lee is a partner at <strong>Yulchon</strong> and primarily practices in the area of antitrust, medicine andpharmaceutical, and broadcasting and telecommunications. At <strong>Yulchon</strong>, Mr. Lee has handled antitrust matters inall areas including cartel, merger review, abuse of market dominance, and unfair trade practice. For example,Mr. Lee successfully represented many companies in domestic and international cartels involving products andservices such as LPG, air cargo, TFT-LCD, marine hose, copy paper, beverage, life insurance, and credit ratingservice. Mr. Lee has also been involved in many merger review cases including Texas Instruments’ acquisition ofNational Semiconductor, Fila Korea’s acquisition of Acushnet, Lotte Shopping’s acquisition of GS Mart andsuccessfully obtained merger approval from the KFTC. Mr. Lee also successfully represented manypharmaceutical companies in the improper solicitation of customer cases, unfair refusal to deal cases and abuseof market dominance cases.Prior to joining <strong>Yulchon</strong> in September 2006, Mr. Lee spent over 20 years working for government agencies suchas the KFTC, the Economic Planning Board, and the Ministry of Information and Communication. At the KFTC,he held major positions such as director of the Investigation Division, director of the Labeling and AdvertisingDivision, director of the Business Group Division, director of the Competition Promotion Division, and director ofthe Monopoly Regulation Division. When he worked for the KFTC, he took a leading role in investigating manyhistorically important antitrust cases in Korea, including the abuse of market dominance cases of Microsoft, Inteland Qualcomm.Mr. Lee has published many articles including “Comparative Study on Regulation of Market Dominance in theU.S. and EU” (Competition Journal No. 129, 2006), “Analysis of Settlement System of Competition Law Cases”(Competition Journal No. 133, 2007), “Study on Improvement of Holding Company System under the MRFTA”(Competition Journal No. 134, 2007), “Comparative Analysis of Court Rulings and KFTC’s Decisions ConcerningBusiness Combination in the Retail Industry” (Competition Journal No. 141, 2008), “Relationship between CartelDamage Claim Suit and Leniency Status” (Competition Journal No. 142, 2009), “Recognition of Leniency Statusfor Companies under the Common Control” (Competition Journal No. 143, 2009), “Comparative Study on theU.S. and EU Regulation Concerning Price Squeeze of Vertical Integrated Companies” (Competition Journal No.144, 2009), and “Review on Competition Law Issues in Online Distributors’ Business Combination” (CompetitionJournal No. 145, 2009).Mr. Lee received his J.D. from Syracuse Law School in 1999 and a master’s degree in accounting from SyracuseUniversity Graduate School of Management in 2000. He is licensed as a lawyer in New York (2000) and AICPAin New York (2001).
ProfessionalsMr. Ki Young KimPartner• TEL_+82.2.528.5222• Email_kykim@yulchon.com<strong>Yulchon</strong>’s Antitrust TeamMr. Ki Young Kim is a partner at <strong>Yulchon</strong> and practices primarily in the areas of antitrust, general corporatematters, M&A, and broadcasting and telecommunications. Mr. Kim joined <strong>Yulchon</strong> in 1998 and was onsecondment at Allen & Overy (Hong Kong) during 2003-2004. At <strong>Yulchon</strong>, Mr. Kim advised on SK Telecom’sacquisition of Shinsegi Communication and Jinro’s sale of Hite. Further, he has successfully dealt with the filingsof domestic and international business combinations, local cable broadcaster’s violation of businesscombination, unfair assistance of large conglomerates including Hyundai Group and Samsung Group, unfairtrade acts of major film distributors, abuse of status in trade between Hyundai Hysco and POSCO, internationalcartel cases in relation to graphite electrode rods, and chemical companies’ cartels.His major articles include “Standards for Determining ‘Unfairness’ in Unfair Trade Act under the MRFTA”(Competition Law Study Vol. 8, 2002), “A Different View of the Intra-Enterprise Conspiracy Doctrine: An Analysisof the Copperweld Decision, Its Effect on Subsequent Decisions, and a Comparison to Korean Antitrust Law”(UC Berkeley LL.M. Thesis, 2003), and “Legal Issues Concerning Merger between Financial Institutions”(co-author) (BFL No. 7, September 2004).Mr. Kim graduated from Seoul National University Law School in 1993 and received his master’s degree fromSeoul National University, Graduate School Department of Law in 2001 with a thesis titled “Study on Regulationof Unfair Supportive Act under the Monopoly Regulation Law”, and LL.M. degree from UC Berkeley Law Schoolin 2003. Mr. Kim completed his training at the JRTI in 1998 and is licensed as a lawyer in Korea (1998) and NewYork (2006).