简介
Sung Bom Park is a partner in Antitrust/Competition Group and also heads the Healthcare Team at Yulchon. His practice ranges across various industries including automotive manufacturing, aviation, healthcare and telecommunications (TMT). After passing the National Bar exam and graduating from Yonsei University in Korea, Sung Bom finished an LL.M. in UC Davis and is licensed to practice both in Korea and the State of New York. In the practice of Korean antitrust law, Sung Bom has been a pioneer as his antitrust career began in the mid-1990’s, when antitrust enforcement emerged as a relatively new legal field in Korea. Since then, he has represented both foreign and Korean clients in a number of high-profile antitrust cases (see list below). These include (i) unfair internal transaction cases involving some of the largest Korean business groups including SK, Samsung, Hanwha and Dongbu that came under intense investigations by the Korea Fair Trade Commission in the late 1990’s, (ii) the DRAM, marine hose, air cargo, and auto parts international cartel cases, (iii) the elevator, industrial motor, forklift, petro-chemicals, detergent and kitchen cleaner, LPG, gunpowder, and construction domestic cartel cases, and (iv) abuse-of-dominance cases involving global technology companies including Qualcomm, Intel, Kakao and Naver. Sung Bom also represented or advised clients including Boehringer-Ingelheim, Delta Air Lines, Nippon Yusen, Cypress Semiconductor and Microsoft in addition to domestic companies including SK Telecom, Korea Telecom, SK Broadband, Kakao Group, Woowa Brothers and Hanwha Group in various leading merger review cases before the Korea Fair Trade Commission. Sung Bom has also handled a number of unfair trade practice cases in the automotive, healthcare, mobile communications and retail industries, in addition to advising clients on unfair internal transactions and antitrust regulations on large business groups. Sung Bom was one of the first attorneys in Korea to realize the importance of establishing compliance systems in companies and therefore to advise many domestic and international companies to introduce enterprise legal risk management systems and preemptively manage and control antitrust and other legal risks which may interfere with business operations.In addition to his role as an antitrust attorney, Sung Bom is heading Yulchon’s Healthcare Team, advising and litigating for clients including major domestic and international pharmaceuticals, medical device producers and medical institutions on various legal matters.Sung Bom has also advised government agencies: as a Subcontract Dispute Mediation Council member of the Korea Fair Trade Commission from 2002 to 2009, as a Cartel Advisory Committee member of the same competition authority from 2004 to 2012, and as a Legal Advisory Group member of the Korea Communications Commission since 2010. Sung Bom is also serving in educational roles in the legal academia: as Vice Chair of the Korean Competition Law Association and Asia Pacific Competition Community, as a lecturer of antitrust and compliance for Seoul National University, Yonsei University, Seogang University, Seoul Bar Association, and Fair Competition Federation as well as major companies. His publications include “Practical Issues and Proposed Solutions for the Current Leniency Program in Korea,” Journal of Korean Competition Law, Vol. 26 (2012); “The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Cartel & Leniency(2009-2012, Global Legal Group)”; and “Comparative Analysis of International Antitrust Cases,” Parkyoungsa (co-authored) (2003); among others.
- 2001 University of California, Davis, School of Law，LL.M.
- 1997 Seoul National University Law Research Center, Antitrust & Competition Law Course (3rd)
- 1992 Judicial Research and Training Institute, the Supreme Court of Korea
- 1989 Yonsei University, College of Law，LL.B.
- 2012-present Partner，Yulchon LLC
- 2020-present Vice Chair，Asia Pacific Competition Community (APCC)
- 2019-present Adjunct Professor，Yonsei Law School
- 2018-present Vice Chair，Korean Competition Law Association
- 2010-present Member，Legal Advisor Group, Korea Communications Commission
- 2008-present Member，Legal Economic Group (LEG), Korea Fair Trade Mediation Agency
- 2005-present Member，Korea Competition Forum
- 2004-2012 Member，Cartel Advisory Committee, Korea Fair Trade Commission
- 2003-2012 Partner，Yoon & Yang LLC
- 2002-2007 Lecturer，Judicial Research and Training Institute, the Supreme Court of Korea
- 2002 Admitted to Bar ， New York
- 1992 Admitted to Bar ， Republic of Korea
韩语，英语
主要业绩
- 2025 Represented LG UPlus in the case involving cartel among three mobile carriers
- 2024 Represented Kakao in its acquisition of SM Entertainment
- 2022-2023 Represented Microsoft in its acquisition of Activision Blizzard
- 2022-2023 Represented Hanwha Aerospace and Hanwha System in its acquisition of Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (“DSME”)
- 2014-2023 Represented Qualcomm in abuse-of-dominance case
- 2022 Advised Epic Games, Kakao Entertainment, 11th Street, etc. on issues related to online platform regulations and in-app payment
- 2019-present Represented Evergreen Marine Corp. of Taiwan in international cartel case in container shipping services
- 2021-2024 Represented Daehan Steel and YK Steel in bid rigging case for steel bars
- 2021 Represented and advised LG Uplus in an unfair trade practice case
- 2021 Represented KT SkyLife on its acquisition of HCN
荣誉/获评
- 2025 Thought Leader, Competition，Lexology Index
- 2025-2026 Recommended, Competition，Lexology Index: South Korea
- 2024-2025 Leading Lawyer, Competition/Antitrust，asialaw
- 2024-2025 Leading Lawyer，IFLR 1000
- 2023-2025 Korea's Top 100 Lawyers，Asia Business Law Journal
消息/资料
Big Data and Competition Law, Journal of Competition Law and Policy, Vol. 6 (Co-Author)(2016)
Big Data and Competition Law: recent developments in the EU, Journal of Competition, Vol. 187 (Co-Author)(2016)
Practical Issues in the Enforcement of Leniency Program in Korea, Seoul National University, Journal of Korean Law, Vol. 15 (2015)
Ballooning Definition of Cartel and Information Exchange in Korea, Competition Policy International’s Antitrust Chronicle (Co-Author)(2013)
“Practical Issues and Proposed Solutions for the Current Leniency Program in Korea,” Journal of Korean Competition Law (Vol. 26)(2012)
Recent Korean Supreme Court Decisions on Per Se Illegality and Noerr-Pennington in Korea, ABA Section of Antitrust Law, Cartel & Criminal Practice Committee Newsletter (Co-Author)(2012)
Revamped Korean Leniency Regime: No More Cheap Way Out for Repeat Cartelists and Second-in-Line Confessors, ABA Section of Antitrust Law, International Committee, International Antitrust Bulletin, Vol. 3 (Co-Author)(2012)
“The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Cartel & Leniency,” Global Legal Group(2012)
“Annotation of Three School Uniform Producers’ Unfair Collaborative Acts,” Korea Fair Trade Commission’s 30 Decisions(2011)
“Annotation of Coca-Cola Korea’s Refusal to Trade,” Korea Fair Trade Commission’s 30 Decisions(2011)
“Comparative Analysis of International Antitrust Cases”, Parkyoungsa(2003)
“The Criteria for Legal Judgment and Consideration in Regulation the Intra-group Transactions,” Fair Trade, Korea Fair Trade Association(2000)
