Soyun Won

  • Associate
  • T. +82-2-3404-1984
  • F. +82-2-3404-0803
  • E. soyun.won@bkl.co.kr

Overview

Soyun Won was admitted to the Korean Bar and her main practice focuses on labor and employment matters involving multinational corporations, including Japanese companies.

Ms. Won has represented and advised clients on various complex labor and employment matters/issues including major wage/compensation-related cases, worker dispatch and outsourcing disputes, cross-border corporate and M&A transactions, compliance audits, disciplinary actions, and labor union disputes involving collective bargaining and industrial actions.

Ms. Won graduated from New York University with a bachelor's (B.A.) degree in Economics and Oriental Studies (cum laude). She earned her Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Hanyang University School of Law.

Representative Experience

2021-Present Bae, Kim & Lee LLC

Representative Matters

Advised foreign company A on working hour system
Advised Japanese companies B and BA, etc. on employee status
Advised companies C and CA, etc. on acquisition (labor)
Advised foreign companies D, etc. on dismissal and reconstructuring
Advised companies E and EA, etc. on investigation of and response to sexual harassment and other harassment in workplace

Education

2021 Hanyang University School of Law (J.D.)
2016 New York University (B.A., cum laude)

Selected Activities

Publications
Regulation of State and Supplementary Pension Schemes in South Korea: Overview (Co-author, Thomson Reuters Practical Law, 2021)

Qualifications

2021 Korea