Mr. Do-Hoon Woo is a partner at Shin & Kim. Mr. Woo’s main areas of practice include tax, customs, accounting litigation and white collar crime including tax and accounting crime.

Mr. Woo led a number of cases, such as tax lawsuits and trials, amounting to hundreds of billions of Won to several hundred billion Won, winning favorable judgments and decisions, and forming new logics in many cases without a similar precedent to obtain a leading favorable judgment or decision. In particular, Mr. Woo provides comprehensive and systematic litigation and advisory services in various legal fields related to taxation, customs, and corporate accounting based on a high level of understanding of corporate accounting.

Mr. Woo graduated from the Department of Social Studies at Seoul National University and completed the 40th Judicial Research and Training Center. Before joining the legal profession, Mr. Woo obtained a certified public accountant license and worked as a certified accountant at Samil Accounting Firm, and in 2018, and obtained an International Tax LLM degree from the University of Michigan Law School under Professor Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, one of the best scholars in international taxation. Mr. Woo has provided lectures on taxes, customs duties, and corporate accounting at various institutions and companies, such as KBIZ, the Seoul Bar Association and the Korea Medical Devices Industry Association, and has participated as a presenter or debater at numerous seminars, and is currently serving as an information director at the Korean Society of Tax Law.

Tax Litigations and Pre-trial Appeals

• Advised on and won litigation of H Corporation seeking cancellation of disposition of refusal of correction of disposition of 1 trillion Won corporate tax imposition
• Advised on and won litigation of Company S seeking pre-taxation review of corporate tax
• Advised on and won litigation of H Capital Corporation seeking cancellation of disposition of corporate tax imposition
• Advised on and won litigation of S Corporation seeking cancellation of disposition of corporate tax imposition
• Advised on and won litigation of P Manufacturer seeking cancellation of disposition of corporate tax imposition
• Advised on and won litigation of H Corporation seeking cancellation of corporate tax imposition disposition
• Advised on and won litigation of K Corporation seeking cancellation of disposition of refusal of correction of disposition of corporate tax imposition
• Advised on and won litigation of H Construction Company and 10 other construction companies seeking cancellation of disposition of VAT imposition
• Advised on and won litigation of H Power Plant seeking cancellation of value-added tax disposition
• Advised on and won litigation of K Company’s shareholders seeking cancellation of the imposition of gift tax
• Advised on and won litigation of K Company’s shareholders seeking cancellation of the disposition of global income tax
• Advised on and won litigation of H Company’s shareholders for the revocation of the disposition rejecting the transfer income tax correction
• Advised on and won tax trial of S Foundation seeking cancellation of the acquisition tax imposition disposition
• Advised on and won litigation of S Trust company seeking cancellation of the acquisition tax imposition disposition
• Advised on and won litigation of K Insurer seeking cancellation of the acquisition tax imposition disposition
• Advised on and won litigation of M Insurer seeking cancellation of the acquisition tax disposition
• Advised on and won litigation of S Foundation seeking cancellation of the acquisition tax imposition
• Advised on and won litigation of D Contractor seeking cancellation of the acquisition tax imposition
• Advised on and won litigation of E Contractor seeking cancellation of the acquisition tax imposition
• Advised on and won litigation of K Company seeking cancellation of the acquisition tax imposition
• Advised on and won litigation of Y Maintenance Project Association seeking cancellation of the acquisition tax imposition
• Advised on and won litigation of K Construction Company seeking cancellation of the property tax imposition disposition
• Advised on and won litigation of H Corporation seeking cancellation of the property tax imposition disposition
• Represented and prevailed in litigation seeking cancellation of disposition imposing registration and license tax for Trust Company S
• Advised on and won litigation of N Bank seeking cancellation of the comprehensive real estate tax
• Advised on and won litigation of K Corporation seeking cancellation of the refusal of correction of the securities transaction tax disposition
• Advised on other multiple cases involving corporate tax, value-added tax, gift tax, inheritance tax, global income tax, capital gains tax, acquisition tax, property tax, comprehensive real estate tax, etc.

Response to Tax Investigations

• Advised on multiple cases of response to corporate tax audits (regular, planning)
• Advised on multiple cases of response to corporate tax audits (regular, planning)
• Advised on multiple cases of response to investigations into violation offense

Tax Crime

• Advised on multiple cases of response to tax evasion crimes (trial, prosecution, police, National Tax Service) against a large number of employers, representatives, etc.
• Advised on multiple cases of response to criminal cases related to tax invoices (trial, prosecution, police, National Tax Service)

Tax Advice

• Advised on multiple cases of successful correction requests (refund)
• Advised on multiple filings for authoritative interpretation (Ministry of Planning and Finance, National Tax Service)
• Advised on multiple filings for authoritative interpretation (Ministry of Planning and Finance, National Tax Service)
• Advised multiple companies on inheritance, donation, and family business succession

Customs Duties

• Advised on and won litigation of A Airline seeking cancellation of customs duties imposition, etc.
• Advised on and won litigation of K Corporation seeking cancellation of customs duties imposition, etc.
• Represented and prevailed in litigation seeking nullification of disposition imposing individual consumption tax on Power Generation Company K
• Advised on and won litigation of A Corporation seeking cancellation of customs duties imposition, etc.
• Represented U Distributor and won a lawsuit seeking cancellation of refusal of correction of customs duties imposition disposition, etc.
• Advised on multiple cases of response to the tariff review (regular, planned) of many foreign companies
• Advised on multiple cases of response to the tariff review (regular, planned) of many domestic large companies and SMEs
• Advised on multiple cases of response to customs crimes (trials, prosecutions, Korea Customs Service) including illegal importation, customs evasion, price manipulation, and false reporting
• Advised on multiple cases of response to crimes related to the violation of the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act (trial, prosecution, Korea Customs Service) and objection to administrative fines
• Advised on and won multiple cases of request for correction (Refund)
• Advised on multiple filings for authoritative interpretation (Ministry of Planning and Finance, Korea Customs Service)
• Advised on general matters on customs duties and import/export customs clearance for multiple enterprises

Disputes related to corporate accounting

• Advised on and partially won case seeking damages related to securities window dressing accounting by D Company
• Advised on and won case seeking damages related to window dressing accounting by D Accounting Firm
• Advised on and partially won case seeking damages related to window dressing accounting by D Manufacturer
• Advised on and partially won case seeking damages related to window dressing accounting by H Company
• Advised on and partially won case seeking damages related to window dressing accounting of K-PEF
• Advised on multiple criminal cases of violation of the Capital Markets Act or the External Audit Act against employers, CEOs, etc. (trial, prosecution, police)
• Advised on other civil and criminal cases and advice related to corporate accounting

Other Civil, Criminal and Administrative Cases

• Advised on multiple civil cases on tax, customs, and accounting issues
• Advised on multiple criminal cases such as embezzlement and misappropriation related to accounting
• Advised on multiple administrative litigations on accounting issues