White Collar Crime

- A case involving an investigation into legal irregularities concerning management right (valued at KRW 375.5 billion) succession by the members of group L’s founding family, and through this case the honorary chairman was sentenced to three years of imprisonment and the chairman was sentenced to 2.5 years of imprisonment and four years of stay of execution (24 people charged)

- A case involving company M, whose vice chairman was found to have embezzled KRW 4.8 billion during an eight-year period via partner companies, and dairy company S's CEO and employees of company M have been found to have received KRW 250 million from suppliers, and through this case 13 people were charged and three people arrested

- A case involving an executive director of company H, who solicited a director and essential researchers of manufacturer C and thereby leaked trade secrets worth KRW 340 billion, and through this case six people were charged and six people arrested

- A case involving an investigation into lobbying efforts made towards a Presidential Office aide and the Chairman of the Korea Fair Trade Commission requesting for reduction of the unreasonable amount of fees imposed by a large online shopping mall company and through this case several people were porsecuted

- A case where four steel companies, including company D, company E and company H colluded with one another on the purchase price changes of metal scraps 39 times during a seven-year period and through this case several people were prosecuted

- A case involving a legal broker receiving KRW 2.8 of funds from large construction companies, including company H, company P, company L and company S and through this case several people were prosecuted

Financial and Economic Crimes

- A case where wrongful transactions involving the chairman and officers of savings bank S (12 people) were discovered and a request was made for investigations

- A case where 11 people were discovered to have been involved in the market price manipulation of company E, four people involved in the market price manipulation of company M, and seven people involved in wrongful transactions of company K, with respect to asset management company L, and where a request was made for investigations

- A case where five people, including the representative of company K, and three former and current employees and officers of bio company S were uncovered to have made use of undisclosed information concerning company K’s treatment drug, and where a request was made for investigations

Reconstruction and Redevelopment

- A case involving construction company S, which lobbied a housing association head by providing KRW 1 billion so that the company can be appointed as the construction company, and through the investigation process several district councilmen were prosecuted, as directors of the association who were also district councilmen of the relevant district office were found to have been involved in the vote rigging of the district council chairman election

- A case involving ** New Town redevelopment project where officers of construction companies, who lobbied and offered KRW 800 million to be appointed as the construction company and during which the head of the relevant district office received KRW 300 million therefrom, and through this case several people were prosecuted

- A case involving the representative and deputy director of construction company S receiving KRW 500 million from the developer of hotel B and the representative of the developer embezzling KRW 21.1 billion of corporate funds, and through this case several people were prosecuted

- A case involving the head of a housing association and a demolition company offering approximately KRW 200 million to the minority party representative and aide as bribe, as part of a lobbying effort for certain legislation, with respect to an investigation launched against ** local housing program, and through the case it was discovered that the aide received KRW 200 million of political funds to support the head of the relevant district office in the election and as election costs and thereby several people were prosecuted

- A case involving an investigation into the corruption concerning the ** redevelopment project and through the case it was discovered that the head of the relevant district office and three members of the housing association had breached the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Crimes (bribery), by receiving bribes in the amount of KRW 300 million (in the case of the head of the district office) and KRW 100 million, each (in the case of the members of the housing association), and thereby several people were prosecuted

Publication(s)

- U.S. Warrant System and Investigative Activities (Research Journal of Prosecutors Training overseas), Legal Training Institute (2012)

- Annotated Criminal Code 10: Articles (7), Pakyoungsa (Joint Authorship) (2023)