Attorney Kim Tae-Hyung majored in engineering as an undergraduate and passed the 37th patent attorney examination. While working as a patent attorney at Kim & Chang, he handled various patent-related cases. He worked as a judge with various intellectual property divisions of different levels of courts, even obtaining master's and doctoral degrees in intellectual property rights. He was appointed as a judge in 2007 and handled a variety of civil cases as well as criminal cases involving breach of trust, embezzlement, election, intellectual property and trade secret infringement, corporate collusion, and securities transactions until his retirement as a judge in 2024. During his career as a judge, from 2012 to 2014 and from 2019 to 2024, i.e., for a total of eight years, he dealt with family, inheritance, and juvenile cases and was able to acquire exceptional expertise in these areas. Every year, he gives lectures on family law litigation at the Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea and for the Family Law Training Program of the Seoul Bar Association, and he regularly writes a legal column on inheritance and divorce litigation for The Financial News. As an undergraduate student at Seoul National University, he worked as a producer for SUB, the university's broadcasting soceity, and based on this experience, he even worked as a VJ for Mnet, a TV music channel in Korea, for two years before embarking on his legal career. As such, Attorney Kim has expertise in music, games, and entertainment. He is also the author of Inheritance, Divorce, Juvenile Proceedings, and the Law According to a Senior Judge (Pakyoungsa, 2023), which he wrote while working as a judge and was on the bestseller list among legal publications.

Publications

- Judge's Disqualification (JURIS, 15th Issue, September 2011)

- Broadcasting of the Trial: Relating to the Freedom of News-Gathering in the Courtroom (The Justice, Volume 130, June 2012)

- Interpretation of "Person Who Holds Justifiable Rights" in Domain Name Dispute Resolution concerning "Cyber-Squatting" (Seoul National University Center for Law & Technology, LAW & TECHNOLOGY, Volume 9, 5th Issue, September 2013)

- Inheritance, Divorce, Juvenile Proceedings, and the Law According to a Senior Judge (Pakyoungsa, 2023)

Lectures

- December 2024: The Importance of Intellectual Property Rights in Technology Commercialization, Korea Industrial Technology Research Association

- July 2024: Five Methods of Wills and Their Pros and Cons, Association of Mid-Sized Enterprises YCN

- July 2024: Medical Litigation and Medical Assessment from a Judge's Perspective, Incheon Medical Association

- April 2024: Medical Litigation and Medical Assessment from a Judge's Perspective, Korean Society of Coloproctology

- April 2024: Family Law Application Practice, Seoul Bar Association 5th Family Law Training Program

- December 2023: Practical Approaches to Estate Division, Association of Mid-Sized Enterprises YCN

- June 2023: Family Law Application Practice, Seoul Bar Association 4th Family Law Training Program

- September 2022: Everything You Need to Know to Navigate the Court System Wisely, Sapiens Studio

- May 2022: Juvenile Trial Practice, Judicial Research and Training Institute

- July 2021: The Role of Investigative Agencies in Handling Crimes by High-Risk Offenders, Gyeonggi Southern Police Agency

- June 2020: Practical Issues in Juvenile Trials, Gyeonggi Southern Police Agency

- September 2013: The Present and Future of Domain Name Dispute Resolution, Internet Address Dispute Resolution Committee

- May 2011: Current Status of the U.S. Electronic Litigation System, Judicial Research and Training Institute

Awards

- 2024 Awarded the Korea Social Contribution Awards in the Legal Category

- 2020 Outstanding Judge (Gyeonggi Central Bar Association)