With various experiences and abundant knowledge accumulated through his 40-year career as a diplomat, Sungnam Lim provides, as global advisor of Bae, Kim & Lee LLC, useful advice on a wide variety of international issues and cross-border cases, including but not limited to, Korean companies' outbound investment as well as foreign direct investment in Korea.

Before joining the firm, Mr. Lim served as first vice minister of Foreign Affairs of Korea for about three years. He also served in Jakarta, Indonesia as ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary at the Mission of the Republic of Korea to ASEAN, and prior to that, served in London as ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary at the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northen Ireland. Besides, he served in Washington, Beijing, New York (UN), Tokyo and Taipei.