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Kim, Chu Attorney (Partner)

Professionals Introduction

Attorney Kim, Chu specializes in litigation and advisory services in the construction and real estate sectors, as well as in litigation and advisory services in innovative industries such as digital assets. He is a highly skilled litigator who has achieved several victories in cases that the Supreme Court remanded to the lower court.

Attorney Kim, Chu has demonstrated excellent performance in numerous litigation and advisory matters related to reconstruction in the construction and real estate sectors. He successfully defended his client against a claim by construction companies for additional construction costs for the expansion of the Gunpo Multi-Logistics Terminal (a private investment facility project). He also obtained a complete victory against Kim & Chang, representing a redevelopment association, in a lawsuit over the replacement of a construction company in the “Jangdae B Zone” project, the largest redevelopment project in the Daejeon area, estimated at 1 trillion won. He is recognized for his expertise through his roles as a non-executive director of LH Korea Land and Housing Corporation, a member of the Construction Dispute Mediation Committee of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport, a designated attorney for the Construction Guarantee Cooperative, and a member of the Korea Bar Association’s Jeonse Fraud Victim Support Task Force.

Attorney Kim has also been involved in various litigation and advisory work related to digital assets and innovation industries, and based on such experience, he serves as a member of the IT and Blockchain Special Committee of the Korean Bar Association and Vice Chairman of the Financial Lawyers Association of the Korean Bar Association, through which he continues to conduct research and keep abreast of the latest trends in the relevant industries.

Education

  • 2014Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (43th)
  • 2010Passed the bar exam (52th)
  • 2005College of Law, Seoul National University
  • 1999Joongdong High School

Experience

  • 2022 ~ PresentPartner, Barun Law LLC
  • 2024 ~ PresentNon-Executive Director, Korea Land & Housing Corporation (LH)
  • 2024 ~ PresentDesignated Attorney, Construction Guarantee Cooperative
  • 2023 ~ PresentDelegate, Korean Bar Association
  • 2023 ~ PresentMember, Construction Dispute Mediation Committee, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport
  • 2023 ~ PresentMember, Foreign Affairs Advisory Council, Gyeonggi Southern Provincial Police Agency
  • 2023 ~ PresentChairman, Planning Committee, Korean Bar Association
  • 2023 ~ PresentMember (Vice Chairman), Committee on the Selection of Outstanding Lawyers, Korean Bar Association
  • 2022 ~ PresentExecutive Director (Chief Planning Officer), Korean Bar Association
  • 2022 ~ PresentOutside Director, KPT Corporation
  • 2022 ~ PresentMember, Judge Evaluation Special Committee, Korean Bar Association
  • 2022 ~ PresentMember (Vice Chairman), Special Committee on the Evaluation of Prosecutors, Korean Bar Association
  • 2022 ~ PresentMember, Attorney Specialty Area Registration Deliberations Committee, Korean Bar Association
  • 2022 ~ PresentMember, IT & Blockchain Special Committee
  • 2022 ~ PresentVice Chairman, Financial Lawyers Association, Korean Bar Association
  • 2022 ~ PresentMember, Jeonse Fraud Victim Support Task Force, Korean Bar Association
  • 2018 ~ PresentMember (Editor-in-Chief), Seoul Bar Association Journal Editing Committee
  • 2015 ~ 2017Member, Special Committee for Young Lawyers of the Korean Bar Association
  • 2015 ~ 2017Representative, Korean Bar Association
  • 2014 ~ 2021Associate, Barun Law LLC

Practice Areas and Representative Matters

Construction

- A case concerning a claimseeking penalty under the construction fee payment agreement with * * HeavyIndustries (prevailed as the Supreme Court of Korea quashed the original courtdecision and remanded the case back to the high court)

- Acase concerning construction payment for a large shopping mall in Dongdaemun

- A case concerning constructionpayment (payment for price fluctuation, indirect costs) for a multi-complex logisticscenter, a private investment project

- A case concerning damages involvinga container terminal in Incheon, a private investment project

- A case concerning constructionpayment for a Buddhist temple

- Injunction case prohibiting construction of an apartment complex in Busan

- A case concerning damages fordefects, including noise, involving an apartment complex in Changwon

- A case concerning damages forinfringement of right to view involving an apartment complex in Busan

- A case concerning damages forconstruction defects involving a building located in Seoul

- A case concerning deposit money withthe Construction Guarantee

- A case concerning a claim of aregional municipality seeking for the advanced deposit money against Construction Guarantee

FairTrade

- A case concerning the breach of the Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act by large construction companies in acollusive tender for Daegu Metropolitan Transit Corporation’s construction work for subway line number 3

Administrative

- A case concerning cancellationof disposition that denied permit for construction of a golf course

- A case between a pharmaceuticalcompany and the National Health Insurance Service concerning cancellation of a dispositionchanging the drug reimbursement criteria

- A case concerning cancellationof a disposition of the Financial Supervisory Service seeking to punish a vicepresident of a financial institution

Personnel/Labor

- A case concerning unfair laborpractices of ten inter-city bus service providers based in Seoul

- A case concerning cancellationof the Appeal Commission for Educators’ decision of a petition involving auniversity professor (disciplinary and dismissal disposition)

- A case concerning cancellationof the Appeal Commission for Educators’ decision of a petition involving auniversity professor (requested dismissal disposition)

- A case concerning cancellationof the Board of Audit and Inspection of Korea’s disposition dismissing aauditor

- A case concerning the salary ofa university professor

- A case concerning a dispositionnot approving the medical care benefits

Taxation

- A case concerning cancellation of a disposition imposing value-added tax

- A case concerning breach of the Act on the Aggravated Punishment, etc. of Specific Crimes (issuance of false tax invoice, etc.)

Election

- A case concerning the breach of the Public Official Election Act by the spouse of a publicly elected official

- A case concerning the breach of the Public Official Election Act in a regional election

Finance / Insurance

- A case concerning the breach of the Financial Investment Services and Capital Markets Act

- A case concerning the return of entrusted assets involving Samsung Securities Co., Ltd.

- A case concerning a claim for damages against a life insurance company

Civil

- A case concerning a claim for penalties under the shareholders’ agreement (prevailed as the Supreme Court quashed the original decision and remanded the case to the high court)

- A case concerning a claim for damages due to an accident that occurred to a Hana Tour tourist at the tour destination

- A case concerning a claim for recourse by Korea Credit Guarantee Fund

- A case concerning a claim for damages by Korea Credit Guarantee Fund with regard to corporate procurement loan

- A case concerning damages and confirmation of invalidity of disciplinary action involving Korea Soft Tennis Association

- A case concerning a claim for payment for medical and medicinal supplies

- Fraudulent transfer cancellation case

- A case concerning division of inheritance property

- A case concerning division of common property

Criminal

- A case concerning an injury (prevailed as the Supreme Court of Korea quashed the original court decision and remanded to case to high court)

- A case concerning obstruction of business of the special prosecutor appointed to clarify the suspicions of the Park Geun-hye administration manipulating government affairs through civilians, including Choi Soon-sil

- A case concerning professional negligence of representative director, etc. of a public institution

- A case concerning breach of the Act on the Aggravated Punishment, etc. of Specific Crimes (professional negligence)

- A case concerning fraudulent acts of the representative of a construction company of a large shopping mall

- A case concerning professional negligence and bribery by the employees of Samsun Electronics and suppliers

- A case concerning breach of the Medical Service Act involving hospital rebates

- A case concerning breach of Attorney-at-Law Act

- A case concerning breach of the Military Service Act

- A case concerning special material injury

- A case concerning the Occupational Safety and Health Act and occupational involuntary manslaughter

- A case concerning breach of the Sexual Violence Prevention and Victims Protection Act

Corporate Advisory

- Advised the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs

- Advised the Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs

- Advised Incheon-si

- Advised Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency

- Advised the National Health Insurance Service

- Advised the Construction Guarantee Cooperative

- Advised CJ Logistics Corporation

- Advised IS Dongseo Co., Ltd.

- Provided advice concerning a social welfare corporation

- Advised the Korean Society of Interventional Cardiology

Qualifications/License

- Certified Real Estate Agent, 2018