Mr. Choon Cho is a partner at Shin & Kim. Mr. Cho's main areas of practice include tax law, administrative law, insurance law, and has been involved in many significant tax, administrative and insurance cases.

Mr. Cho obtained his doctorate from the Graduate School of Law at Seoul National University with a thesis on administrative litigation. Mr. Cho has served as a professor of Civil Law at the Judicial Research and Training Institute, non-standing member of the Central Administrative Appeal Committee, legal counsel for the Ministry of the Interior and Safety and NTS Seoul National Office, director of the Korean Society of Law, member of the Tax Committee of the Korean Bar Association, chairman of the Administrative Law Theory and Practice Society, and vice chairman of the Korea Tax Law Association, and currently serves as a director of the Administrative Law Theory and Practice Society, head of the Tax Community of the Seoul Regional Bar Association, and legal counsel for the International Fiscal Association Korea.

Mr. Cho has handled many lawsuits and advisory cases mainly in the areas of taxation, administration, and insurance, and has been selected as a leading individual in the tax sector by reputable overseas publication media such as Chambers Asia-Pacific.

• Represented clients in litigation related to international transactions and tax treaties (e.g. permanent establishment, beneficial owner, and withholding issues).
• Represented clients in litigation regarding rescission of disposition to reject the request for corporate tax correction based on the window dressing accounting.
• Represented the Korean Railway Corporation in filing a lawsuit seeking cancellation of corporate tax correction refusal disposition (requested amount of 900 billion won).
• Represented the National Pension Service in filing a lawsuit seeking cancellation of the securities transaction tax correction refusal disposition (requested amount of 76 billion won).
• Represented clients in litigation seeking cancellation of imposition of gift tax on the increase in value of stocks based on regulations on comprehensive taxation of gifts.
• Represented clients in litigation seeking cancellation of disposition of imposition of gift tax related to convertible bonds, bonds with warrants, etc.
• Represented clients in litigation seeking cancellation of disposition of imposition of gift tax related to stock title trust.
• Represented clients in multiple administrative appeals and litigations against dispositions of administrative agencies such as the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, and the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service.
• Represented clients in an administrative litigation against administrative dispositions, such as business suspension dispositions against financial institutions.
• Represented clients in administrative litigations against dispositions (e.g. business suspension, disposition of restriction on qualification to participate in bidding, disposition of imposition of penalty points, etc.)
• Represented clients in administrative litigations related to various charges (e.g. infrastructure charges, metropolitan transportation facility charges, development charges, source charges, etc.)
• Advised entities like insurers and reinsurers on various legal matters.
• Represented clients in various insurance-related lawsuits such as directors and officers liability insurance, construction work insurance, etc.