The Practice provides advice with respect to the following : 

• Construction cost payment (including overhead costs, design changes, etc.) and liquidated damages.
• Defects in buildings and structures.
• Joint ventures and subcontracts.
• Construction-related injunction cases, such as injunction for suspension of construction works.
• Re-construction, re-development, and other urban improvement and development projects.
• Rights to sunlight, the right to view, or environmental damages due to noise, vibration or inhalable dust.
• Real estate sales advertising.
• Construction permits and approvals, and other construction-related administrative matters.
• Safety-related accidents.
• Credit support such as letters of credit, guarantees, or surety bonds for construction works.

Shin & Kim handles a wide range of construction dispute cases. Its major litigations are as follows:

• Korail Jeolla Line v. Korail, seeking the rent increase of BTL (Build Transfer Lease) project resulting from price inflation and design change
• GS E&C v. Eleven D&C, claiming payment for construction works of new construction of apartment buildings in Seongbuk-dong
• SK E&C, etc. v. LH Corporation, related to the project financing on the relocation of Yeongdeungpo Correctional Institution and the development of the land left after the relocation
• Incheon Transit Corporation v. Hanshin Enginering Construction, related to payment for construction works and defect repairs of Wolmi Monorail
• SK E&C v. Korea Exchange Bank, et al., seeking preliminary injunctions to prohibit the payment of the letter of credit related to a local oil-refining facility construction in Mexico
• Hyundai Heavy Industries v. Incheon Airport Energy, related to damages to gas turbine blades
• Hanmi Global, etc. v. Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance, related to fire that broke out at the extension work site of Home Plus
• POSCO E&C v. LH Corporation lawsuit, related to cost-bearing for the plan to reduce noise coming from the construction of the Administrative City
• Taeyoung E&C v. SH Corporation, related to the adjusted amount of PS items
• Criminal case related to the accident in which a ventilation grate collapsed in Pangyo Techno Valley
• eTEC E&C v. Kumho T&L, related to an accident in which a silo collapsed in Yeosu
• Samho Development v. IAV Construction, related to design change on the volume of earth cut in a civil engineering work for a golf course
• SK E&C, Hanwha E&C, Doosan E&C v. Pyeongtaek Base Construction Project for Yongsan Base Relocation, claiming overhead costs
• Samha Architecture v. Bangbae Zone 5 Association, related to design outsourcing cost for the house re-construction project
• SK Incheon Petrochem v. local residents collective action suit related to environmental problems arising from a petrochemical plant
• Jamsil Jinju Apartment Complex Re-construction Committee v. the chair of the Committee, seeking a preliminary injunction for suspension of the execution of the resolution to dismiss the chair of the Committee made by the Re-construction Maintenance Business Committee
• Lawsuit related to the move and removal of obstructs for urban development projects in Gimpo Pungmu-2 District, Cheongju Homi District and Euiwang Baekun District
• An association A v. association B, seeking the cancellation of the disposition to designate the land reserved for replotting
• Hyundai E&C, etc. v. TEC Construction, related to a set-off between share refund payables of the members who left the Consortium (Busan International Finance Center Mixed-use Development Project Consortium) and the receivables of the remaining members
• KB Real Estate Trust v. Hwagok-3 District Association, claiming the return of rental security deposit under the Urban and Living Environment Improvement Act