KANG, Sang Duk is a partner at Barun Law LLC and his practice focuses on antitrust and competition, civil, commercial, white collar crime and public service related crime, and administration. Prior to joining Barun Law LLC, Attorney Kang served as a judge from 2000 to 2015, dealing with civil, commercial, criminal (corruption and in charge of arrest warrants), and domestic affairs cases at Jeonju District Court, Jeongeup Branch of Jeonju District Court, Suwon District Court, Seoul Central District Court, Seoul Eastern District Court; administrative cases (in charge of antitrust and competition) and criminal cases in Seoul High Court; criminal settlement and appeal cases at Jeonju District Court; and civil appeal cases at Suwon District Court. While serving as a court judge, Attorney Kang published several articles regarding antitrust and competition as well as participated as a debater representing the courts at the “Symposium on Introduction of Prohibitory Injunction against Acts of Breach of the Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act,” hosted by the Seoul Bar Association on May 5, 2010. He was also in charge of cases where L Department Store filed a case against Korea Fair Trade Commission, seeking cancellation of penalty levied for L Department Store interfering with management of suppliers, where it dealt with breach of trust by staffs and executives of Korean National Oil Corporation in connection with development of overseas oilfield, and where it involved a Ponzi scheme under which college students were forced to live in groups at Geoyeo-dong and Macheon-dong area in Seoul. With regard to a copyright case, he delivered a ruling that said that subjects protected under copyrights should be expanded, holding that “problems from a state-administered nurse examination are included as works protected by the Copyright Law.” He also took part as a panelist at the International Intellectual Property Right and Industrial Security Conference held on May 18, 2017 and took part in the discussion on “Overview of the Qualcomm Case and Its Projections.”

Antitrust and Competition, Civil (Real Estate Litigation), Commercial, White Collar Crime and Public Service Related Crime, Administration

Publications

- Article 2 of the U.S. Sherman Antitrust Act and Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU: A Comparative Study (Justice Vol. 133), Korean Legal Center, December 2012.

- Per Se Illegal and Rule of Reason drawn from U.S. Cases on Price Fixing (Korean Lawyer’s Association Journal, Vol. 678), Korean Lawyer’s Association, March 2013.

- Standard for Illegality of Unfair Assisting Practices under the Korean Monopoly Regulation Act (Wonkywang Legal Book 29, Vol. 4), Wonkwang University Legal Research Center, December 2013

- Standard for Unlawful Exclusionary Conduct of U.S. Sherman Act – Comparative Perspectives on Korea and Japan, (Korean Lawyer’s Association Journal, Vol. 687), Korean Lawyer’s Association, December 2013.

- Is Market Definition Always Necessary in Determining Anticompetitive Effect? – Focused on Recent Discussions on Market Definition and Market Power in the U.S., (Korean Lawyer’s Association Journal, Vol. 700), Korean Lawyer’s Association, January 2015.

- Class-Action Arbitration and Waiver of Class-Action Arbitration under U.S. Consumer Agreements: A Study, Gyeonggi Lawyer’s Association, Gyeonggi Bar Association, December 2014.