Joosung Park

Joosung Park

  • Partner
  • T. +82-2-3404-6953
  • F. +82-2-3404-0805
  • E. joosung.park@bkl.bkl.us.com

Overview

Joosung Park is a partner in the TMT Group at Bae, Kim & Lee LLC whose principal practice areas include not only traditional intellectual property rights, such as patents, trademarks, design rights and copyrights, but also advisory and litigation matters relating to corporate data and information protection, trade secret infringement and unfair competition. He primarily handles legal issues arising in connection with advanced technologies of domestic and foreign IT companies, and also provides legal advice to various startups. In particular, he has significant interest and experience in matters in the entertainment industry, including games, sports and digital content.

During his service as a public interest legal officer under the Ministry of Justice, Mr. Park gained extensive experience in various roles, including as head of the Tax and Customs Administrative Litigation Team in the Litigation Department of the Seoul High Prosecutors' Office, secretary-general of the Administrative Appeals Commission, and review committee member for the 7th and 8th Korean Bar Examination. He also featured as a panelist on the "Monday Legal Guide" segment of KBS (Gangneung) Radio's Information Magazine for approximately eight (8) months.

Mr. Park has extensive experience in directly advising Woowa Brothers Corp., which operates Baedal Minjok, Korea's leading food delivery application, on a wide range of legal issues arising in the platform industry, including information protection, intellectual property and financial transactions. He also has experience in directly handling a wide range of legal advisory matters at Samsung Biologics Co.,Ltd, the world's largest Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO), including on compliance issues relating to data security, organoids and the processing of healthcare data.

Mr. Park earned his Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 2024 and was admitted to the New York State Bar in 2025. He later completed the AI for Lawyers program at the University of Michigan Law School and gained practical experience at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Washington D.C. Office, a global law firm, where he handled matters relating to the protection of rights in advanced technologies and infringement disputes.

Mr. Park completed the doctoral coursework (in International Economic Law) at Seoul National University Graduate School of Law.

Representative Experience

2024-2025 International Lawyer, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Washington D.C.
2023 Woowa Brothers
2019-Present Bae, Kim & Lee LLC
2017-2019 Judge Advocate for Public Service, Ministry of Justice, Seoul High Prosecutors' Office
2016-2017 Judge Advocate for Public Service, Ministry of Justice, Korea Legal Aid Corporation
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2026-Present AI Research and Innovation Expert Committee Member, Korea Fire Institute
2026-Present 2030 Advisory Group Member, Korea Fair Trade Commission
2026-Present Expert Evaluation Committee Member, Korea Women Inventors Association
2026-Present Evaluation Committee Member, Korea Manhwa Contents Agency
2026-Present Advisory Committee Member, Changwon Industry Promotion Agency
2026-Present Evaluation Committee Member, Gyeonggi Content Agency
2026 Completed the doctoral coursework (in International Economic Law) at Seoul National University Graduate School of Law
2026 Technical Evaluation Committee Member for the Post-Management System, Game Rating and Administration Committee
2026 Advisory Attorney, AI Framework Act Support Desk, Ministry of Science and ICT and Korea Artificial Intelligence Software Industry Association (KOSA)
2025 Researcher, Research Project on Detailed Standards for the Domestic Agent Designation System, Game Rating and Administration Committee
2025 AI for Lawyers Program, University of Michigan Law School, U.S.A.
2018-2019 Reviewer, 7th and 8th Korean Bar Examination
2017-2018 Administrative Secretary General, Administrative Appeals Commission, Seoul High Prosecutors' Office

Representative Matters

Advised Company A on the launch of a new business relating to its metaverse and NFT platform
Advised Company B on its merger and acquisition of a mobility company
Advised Company C on measures to respond to unauthorized crawling by a counterparty
Advised Company D on intellectual property transaction strategies for its software technology
Advised Company E on a dispute involving an exclusive contract with a prominent private academy instructor
Advised Company F on pharmaceutical technology licensing
Represented Company G in litigation involving online game copyright infringement
Advised and represented Company H in connection with trade secret infringement involving robotics technology
Represented Company I in litigation involving trade secret infringement relating to its workforce management system
Advised and represented Company J in connection with patent and trade secret infringement involving elevator technology
Advised Company K on measures to respond to the leakage of key management information
Advised and represented Company L in connection with the leakage of software source code information
Advised Company M and a number of other companies on trade secret compliance
Represented Company N in litigation for a preliminary injunction against transfer of employment in connection with semiconductor technology infringement
Reviewed privacy policies and advised on privacy compliance for multiple global Big Tech companies
Provided in-house advice to a global pharmaceutical company on privacy and data compliance
Advised on privacy compliance relating to the processing of organoids and healthcare data
Advised on compliance relating to the establishment and operation of IRBs and DRBs under the Personal Information Protection Act and the Bioethics and Safety Act
Advised on the processing of autonomous driving training data and the establishment of a data governance framework
Advised Company O on compliance matters under the E-Commerce Act and the Electronic Financial Transactions Act in connection with its food delivery application
Advised Company P on compliance matters in connection with the launch of its e-commerce website
Advised Company Q on compliance matters relating to employee location information
Advised Company R on a dispute involving an exclusive contract with a member of a prominent idol group
Advised Company S on compliance matters in connection with the launch of its entertainment platform
Advised Company T on film content production and overseas licensing
Advised Company U on the launch of a new service relating to a prominent AOS genre game and the overall operation of an esports league
Represented Company V in litigation involving board game copyright infringement and violation of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act
Advised Company W on new designation as a self-rating game provider and annual evaluation
Advised on amendments to game industry laws and regulations relating to probability-based items, web board game enforcement decrees, etc.
Advised and represented clients in connection with various domestic game regulations, including those relating to gambling elements and game rating classification

Education

2024 Georgetown University Law Center (LL.M.)
2016 Sungkyunkwan University Law School (J.D.)
2012 Seoul National University (LL.B.)

Selected Activities

Publications
A Study on Copyright Legislation and System in North Korea (Co-author, Korea Copyright Commission, 2020)
Understanding of Inheritance Tax and Gift Tax Act with Recent Cases (Co-author, Pakyoungsa, 2019)
Awards
Citation (Ministry of Justice, 2018)

Qualifications

2016 Korea