Mr. Kyoung Sik Lee is currently a partner at Shin & Kim and focuses his practice on corporate criminal liability, including issues related to technology leakage, embezzlement, and financial cases.

Before joining Shin & Kim, Mr. Lee worked as a prosecutor at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office, Incheon District Prosecutors’ Office, and Cheongju District Prosecutors’ Office, where he mainly handled special investigations. Mr. Lee also served as a dispatched prosecutor for the Office of the Special Prosecutor for the Druiking Illegal Comment Manipulation Case, gaining extensive experience in investigative work, including corporate search and seizure, funds analyses, key person investigations, forensics, and technology leakage.

Since joining Shin & Kim, Mr. Lee has worked on several major corporate and financial cases handled by the Criminal Practice Group. In addition, he lectures on investigative techniques such as search and seizure for national investigative agencies and serves as an advisor to Korea Workers’ Compensation & Welfare Service.

• Represented a foreign automobile manufacturer in an investigation into a fire involving one of its vehicles
• Advised on a case of collusion on mobile micropayments
• Represented a large entertainment company in an investigation into malicious commenters
• Advised and responded to an investigation into a secondary-cell technology leakage
• Advised and responded to an investigation into a case of embezzlement and breach of trust involving a golf course in possession of the owner of a corporate group
• Represented the owner of a large entertainment company in investigations and trials
• Advised and responded to an investigation into the case of obstruction of unionization
• Represented a duty-free shop company in an investigation into a case of embezzlement and breach of trust
• Represented the owner of a large corporate group in an investigation into a case of embezzlement
• Represented the son of the owner of a large corporate group in an investigation into a case of slush funds and embezzlement
• Represented a large pharmaceutical company in an investigation into a case of technology leakage
• Advised and responded to an investigation into the humidifier sanitizer case
• Represented a large corporate group in an investigation into a case of breach of trust and violation of the Capital Markets Act in connection with the sale of a company
• Advised and responded to an investigation into a violation of the Capital Markets Act concerning price control
• Represented a digital asset issuer in an investigation into embezzlement and breach of trust
• Advised and responded to an investigation into a violation of the Capital Markets Act in connection with an internal platform company’s purchase of shares in an entertainment company
• Advised and responded to an investigation into the largest digital asset exchange in Korea