• International Arbitration
• Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS)
• WTO and FTA Disputes
• Trade Remedies
• Economic Sanctions · Export Controls
• Public International Law
• Customs
• M&A
• Foreign Investments (In-Bound/Out-Bound)

• 2017-PresentAdvisor, Korean Arbitrators Association, Inc.
• 2011-PresentAdjunct Professor, Seoul National University Law School
• 2017Acting President, Sungshin University
• 2009-2017Vice President, Korean Arbitrators Association
• 2008-2011President, Trade Remedy Forum of Korea
• 1999-2000Adjunct Professor, DongKuk University, Graduate School for International Information
• 1998-2004Commissioner, Customs Deliberation Committee, Korean Customs Service
• 1995-PresentArbitrator, Korean Commercial Arbitration Board
• 1991-1997Legal Counsel, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy
• 1988Foreign Legal Consultant, Coudert Brothers, Brussels, Belgium
• 1987-1988Foreign Legal Consultant , Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, Palo Alto, U. S. A.
• 1982-PresentShin & Kim LLC (2006 - 2013.3, 2019.3 -2021.3, Managing Partner)
• 1980-1982Judicial Research & Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea

• 2002-2003Columbia Law School (Visiting Scholar)
• 1986-1987University of Chicago Law School (LL.M., 1987)
• 1976-1980Seoul National University, College of Law (LL.B., 1980)

• 1988Admitted to bar, New York
• 1982Admitted to bar, Korea

Korean, English, Japanese

• GAR Know-how – Commercial Arbitration 2021: South Korea (Co-authored)
• Law Business Research Getting the Deal Through – Investment Treaty Arbitration 2018: Korea Chapter (Co-authored)
• Dispute Resolution Journal 2017 (Vol. 72.1) – An Overview of Recognition and Enforcement in Korea: Recent Arbitration Act Amendments and Case Highlights (Co-authored)
• “Resolution of Overseas Construction Dispute – ‘Investment Arbitration” is the Key”, K-Build (Korea Research Center for Overseas Construction, June 2016)(co-authored)
• Law Business Research Getting the Deal Through – Investment Treaty Arbitration 2016: Korea Chapter (Co-authored)
• Q&A: The Opening of the Korean Market and the Arrival of International Firms, The Asian Lawyer, Summer 2012 (co-authored)
• "Certain Legal Issues on Export Subsidies and Restructuring Subsidies – as arisen from Korea-EC Shipbuilding Disputes at the WTO", International Trade Law Association, Vol. 14 No. 1 ,2005
• "Study on Improvement of Mergers & Acquisitions Rules", Korea Listed Companies Association, Vol. 52, Autumn 2004
• "Study on Directions for Negotiations of the WTO’s Investigation Procedures of Countervailing Duties (Report of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade)", April 2003
• "Comments on Agreement on Application of Sanitary & Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) and Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) of the WTO (Report of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade)", June 2000
• "WTO and MERCOSUR, with Certain Legal Issues regarding Brazil’s Automobile-related TRIMs", Trade Law, Korean Ministry of Justice, Vol. 9, 1996
• "Injurious Pricing Charges under the OECD Shipbuilding Agreement", Trade Law, Korean Ministry of Justice, Vols. 2&3, 1995
• "OECD Multilateral Shipbuilding Agreement", Korea Shipbuilding Industry Association, 1995
• "International Execution against Foreign Judgment Debtors", Center for International Legal Studies, 1993
• "Joint Ventures in East Asia: Legal Issues", Graham & Trotman and International Bar Association, 1992
• "Limited Partnership for Venture Capital Investments", Technology and Venture, 1988

• 2007.10.The Industrial Service Medal by the Government of the Republic of Korea

• "Leading Individual" for International Trade, Chambers Global/Chambers Asia, 2011-2012, 2014-2023 (Band 1), 2024 (Senior Statespeople)
• "Leading Lawyer" for M&A, IFLR1000, 2011-2024
• "Leading Lawyer" for Trade & Customs, Who's Who Legal, 2021-2024
• "Leading Lawyer" for Corporate and M&A, Dispute resolution, Asialaw Profiles, 2019-2023
• "Leading Individual" for M&A, Chambers Global/Chambers Asia, 2011-2012
• "Recommended Individual", Asialaw Profiles, 2014-2018
• "Recommended Lawyer” for Internatinal Arbitration, Legal500, 2017-2020
• "Recommended Lawyer” for Corporate and M&A, Legal500, 2018
• "Leading Individual” for Corporate and M&A, Legal500, 2011-2016
• The International Who’s Who of Trade & Customs Lawyers, 2008-2015
• “Korea’s Top 100 Lawyers”, Asia Business Law Journal, 2019