Mr. Ho Sang Yoon is currently a partner at Shin & Kim whose main areas of practice are personal information, broadcasting and communications, IT, and general corporate legal affairs.

After passing the bar exam, Mr. Yoon worked at the Korea Communications Commission and was in charge of enacting, amending, improving systems, and interpreting laws related to personal information, broadcasting, and communications, and even after joining Shin & Kim, he has gained extensive experience by handling various cases based on his experience in the government. He has been providing legislative consulting and advice on investigation cases, compliance, etc. on behalf of various domestic and foreign companies in the ICT field, and has also participated in policy drafting, institutional improvement, and legislative drafting by relevant ministries such as the Korea Communications Commission, the Personal Information Protection Commission, and the Ministry of Science and ICT.

Mr. Yoon graduated from the College of Law of Korea University and the Graduate School of Law of the same University and passed the 5th Bar Examination. Before joining Shin & Kim, Mr. Yoon worked as a public-service advocate at the Korea Communications Commission and the Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service.

Mr. Yoon is specialized in the ICT field, such as personal information, broadcasting, and communications, and provides various advice. Currently, the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) is a member of various legal and institutional improvement research teams from relevant ministries, including pseudonymized information experts, government innovation advisory member of the Korea Communications Commission, and as the research member of improvement of various laws and regulations and institutions under the Personal Information Protection Commission, and the Ministry of Science and ICT. In particular, the committee was recognized for its contributions in providing various advice and actively participating in the committee’s prevention of and response to personal information infringement incidents, and received a commendation from the Chairman of the Personal Information Protection Commission, who is in charge of establishing and investigating personal information-related policies.

• Represented a major telecommunications company in a case involving violations of the Terminal Device Distribution Act, the Telecommunications Business Act, and the Broadcasting Act
• Conducted a compliance check on the personal data of an overseas business operator (an accommodation platform company)
• Conducted a research project for the Ministry of the Interior and Safety: Research on Improvement Measures for the Overseas Transfer System of Personal Information
• Responded to personal information leakage cases of a major telecommunications company and a platform operator
• Advised on licenses relating to the location information business
• Advised a foreign automotive company on connected cars
• Advised on the use of pseudonymization of medical data
• Advised on the establishment and amendment of laws and regulations for relevant and regulatory agencies and institutional improvements