Sukchun Kwon

  • Senior Advisor
  • T. +82-2-3404-7599
  • F. +82-2-3404-7687
  • E. sukchun.kwon@bkl.co.kr

Overview

Sukchun Kwon advises mainly on matters related to regulations, IT and ICT, compliance management and corruption prevention, and constitutional and administrative litigations.

Mr. Kwon has broad experience in collecting and writing news, as he, after beginning his career as a journalist in 1990, had gone through various news reporting departments, such as the city desk, politics desk, and business desk. Particularly, thanks to his experience in reporting on investigations, trials, and judgments, he has deep understanding of the judicial system—based on which he has not only constantly written articles and books about the court and prosecution, but also actively participated in the research on policies related to, among others, the trial system, sentencing criteria, and judiciary personnel administration.

Moving back onto his journalist career, while serving as the city desk editor and an editorialist at JoongAng Ilbo, Mr. Kwon serialized the column titled, “Suk Chun Kwon's Issue at the Moment,” for seven years. Moreover, while serving as the news reporting supervisor (the news division chief) and the newsroom chief at JTBC, he led the news gathering and reporting processes. This work experience built in the newspaper and broadcasting fields now enables him to differentiate his consulting services.

Mr. Kwon graduated from the Department of Law of Seoul National University and earned a master's degree in Science of Public Administration from HUFS Graduate School of Politics, Government, and Communication. He joined Bae, Kim & Lee LLC in 2021.

Representative Experience

2021-Present Bae, Kim & Lee LLC
2020-2021 Chief of the News Division, JTBC; Columnist, JoongAng Ilbo
2018-2020 Editorialist, JoongAng Ilbo
2016-2018 Newsroom Chief, JTBC
2007-2016 Leader of the Legal Team, Editor of the City Desk 2, and Editorialist, JoongAng Ilbo
1990-2006 Deputy Editor of the City Desk, Politics Desk and Business Desk, The Kyunghyang Shinmun

Education

2014 Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (M.A.)
1989 Seoul National University (LL.B.)

Selected Activities

Publications
Courtesy to Humanity (Across Publishing Co., 2020)
Two-Faced Court (Changbi Publishers, 2019)
I Appeal to the Supreme Court (Changbi Publishers, 2017)
Care for Justice (Dongasiabook, 2015)
How on Earth Are You a Prosecutor? – Secret Records on Prosecution's Investigations (Co-author, Jajaknamu, 1999)
Awards
Special Prize, Ahn Jong Pil Freedom Press Award (2016)
Citation for Journalist of the Year, Gowoon Culture Foundation's Journalist Award (2014)
Seoul National University Award for Outstanding Alumnus in Journalism (2005)
Korea Journalist Award (2005)