Youngjin Jung
Visiting Professor
Dr. Youngjin Jung, a partner at Yulchon, primarily practices in the areas of antitrust, telecommunications, international trade, and international arbitration and has acquired extensive experience in the information technology, telecommunications and broadcasting, semiconductor, aviation, and chemical industries. Before joining Yulchon in 2005, Dr. Jung worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade as Deputy Director of the Multilateral Trade Negotiation Division and European Trade Division. Dr. Jung was also an associate at Steptoe & Johnson LLP in Washington DC, and worked at Lee & Ko in Korea. He advises a number of prominent domestic and international clients, in such areas as, global cartel investigations in semiconductor industry and global monopolization cases regarding Microsoft, Intel and Qualcomm.
Dr. Jung was an adjunct professor at both Georgetown Law School and the KDI International Policy School and will be teaching at Duke Law School. He is a legal advisor for the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA), a member of the Cartel Advisory Board of the Korea Fair Trade Commission, a foreign correspondent to the ABA Antitrust Section of M&A Committee, an NGA of International Competition Network(ICN), a Vice-Chair of International Antitrust Committee of ABA International Law Section. He also is a legal advisor to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry/the Ministry of Knowledge Economy, an arbitrator for the Korea Commercial Arbitration Board, and a member of Executive Board of IBA Trade & Customs Law Committee. Furthermore, previously Dr. Jung was a professional fellow for the Institute for International Economic Law in Washington, D.C. Dr. Jung has previously been involved in WTO panel proceedings and has participated as a member of the Korean delegation to the OECD Competition Committee and the WTO Working Party on Interactions between Trade and Competition.
Dr. Jung has published numerous articles, including "Korean Competition Law: Policies and Development" in Competition Law (Vinod Dhall eds., Oxford University Press 2007); "Korea's Competition Law and Policies in Perspective" Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business vol.26 (2006); The New Economic Constitution in China: A Third Way for Competition Regime?, Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business vol.24. (Fall 2003), "International Antitrust: Korea" in International Legal Developments in Review: 2005 for The International Lawyer vol.40 (2006); WTO Future: How Far Should the WTO Reach into Income Tax Policies? Journal of International Taxation, March 2005; Modeling a WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism in An International Antitrust Agreement: Impossible Dream?, Journal of World Trade, February 2000.
In 2007, Dr. Jung was consistently nominated by Global Competition Review as International Who's Who of Competition Lawyers and International Who's Who of Business Lawyers (Global Competition Review. He was also consistently nominated as Leading Lawyers for International Trade (Euromoney) and by Chambers Global as a Leading Lawyer for WTO/International Trade). He graduated from Seoul National University College of Law (LLB; LLM) and from Yale Law School (LLM; JSD).
