概要
Soonam Kim is a partner at Bae, Kim & Lee LLC. Since 1987, the year when Mr. Kim was appointed as a judge, he served as such for three years, and later in 1990, he joined the Public Prosecutors Office.
Since then, Mr. Kim served as a public prosecutor for 28 years, and in May 2017, he left public service as the prosecutor general of the Supreme Prosecutors Office. During his tenure as a public prosecutor, he mainly worked in the Special Investigation Department and contributed to the eradication of corruption and unfair practices by handling various high-profile cases, including investigations on the receipt and misappropriation of illegal funds for presidential elections, the raising of slush funds, embezzlement and breach of duty by conglomerates, corruption of conglomerates involving the use of public funds.
After retiring from public office, Mr. Kim took a one-year program at Columbia Law School in the U.S. as a visiting scholar. During the visiting scholar program, he gave a special lecture entitled “Korea's Economic Development and Roles of Public Prosecutors Office (Rooting Out Corruption)” for law school students, and also completed a four-week executive program at Columbia Business School.