Mr. Byungkyoo Kim began his career as a public official by passing the 34th Higher Civil Service Examination (Finance) in 1991 and served at the National Tax Service and then at the Tax and Customs Office of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (formerly the Ministry of Finance and Economy and the Ministry of Finance) in 1994, where he handled tax-related matters as a Grade IV official in the Consumption Tax Division, Head of the Corporate Tax Division, Grade III official in the Property and Excise Tax Division, Director General of the Tax and Customs Office, etc. He also served as a permanent judge at the Tax Tribunal of the Prime Minister’s Secretariat, and as a Grade III official in charge of taxation at the Office of the Secretary to the President for Economic and Financial Affairs under the Blue House, serving as a tax specialist. In addition, he gained extensive experience in the public service while serving as Head of HR Division and Training Budget Division at the Ministry of Economy and Finance, Head of the Fiscal Policy Division at the Prime Minister’s Secretariat, and the Financial and Economic Attaché at the Korean Embassy in the United Kingdom.

After retiring in October 2019, he worked as an advisor at the tax firm STC, a visiting professor at the Department of Economics at Seoul National University, an outside director of the National Federation of Fisheries Cooperatives and NH Capital, an outside director of Korea Guide Star, a non-profit corporation that monitors non-profit corporations, and a member of the ESG Committee of the Korea National Park Service. In July 2022, he was appointed Deputy Governor for Economic Affairs of Gyeongsangnam-do and served until January 2024, and joined Shin & Kim in October 2024.

• Institutional improvement of the deduction for succession to family business
• Institutional improvement of the additional taxation on large shareholders
• Review of the change in the calculation of inheritance tax from taxing the entire estate of a decedent to taxing the property acquired by an inheritor
• Improvement of the corporate tax to facilitate corporate restructuring
• Institutional improvement for the pre- and post-management of public interest corporations
• Tax support for the change of Nonghyup’s holding company
• Institutional improvement of the value-added tax invoicing system
• Transition to a beer and rice wine taxation method based on alcohol volume
• Normalization of the taxation system for e-cigarettes
• Improvement of investment conditions for three mobile carriers by eliminating the telephone tax
• Institutional improvement of the lottery system and enactment of the Lottery Act