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Chul Soo KIM Attorney
T. +82-2-3477-8685 F. +82-2-3477-8684 E. cskim@law-lin.com
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Mr. Kim graduated from Seoul National University School of Law and completed the training course at the Judicial Research & Training Institute (27th). After being appointed as a prosecutor in 2001, he served as a prosecutor at the Seoul District Prosecutors’ Office, the Legal Attache at the Korean Consulate General in Los Angeles, the Director of the International Legal Affairs Division of the Ministry of Justice, the Supervising Prosecutor of Criminal Division 2 of the Seoul Western District Prosecutors’ Office, the Chief of the International Cooperation Center of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office, among others. Mr. Kim also worked at Kim & Chang from September 2018 to January 2019. From February 2019 to January 2022, he worked as the managing partner of Law Firm Moon Pyung. Thereafter, Mr. Kim joined LIN. Currently, he is providing legal advice to institutions and companies by working as arbitrator to the Korea Commercial Arbitration Board, advisory attorney for the Gyeonggi Branch of the Korean Dental Association, and advisory attorney for Snooey Lab Co., Ltd. He also operates his own Youtube channel called “Bu-mo Attorney Kim Chul Soo TV”, Naver Blog called “Bu-mo Attorney Kim Chul Soo”, and other social media accounts at Facebook and Instagram(boomolawyer2022). As a reference, “Bu-mo” attorney has two meanings: (1) a lawyer, having worked as a chief prosecutor, who provides legal services in all fields of law, not to mention criminal law, and (2) a lawyer who performs his best in dealing with cases entrusted to him with the heart of parents.  
Mr. Kim graduated from Seoul National University School of Law and completed the training course at the Judicial Research & Training Institute (27th). After being appointed as a prosecutor in 2001, he served as a prosecutor at the Seoul District Prosecutors’ Office, the Legal Attache at the Korean Consulate General in Los Angeles, the Director of the International Legal Affairs Division of the Ministry of Justice, the Supervising Prosecutor of Criminal Division 2 of the Seoul Western District Prosecutors’ Office, the Chief of the International Cooperation Center of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office, among others. Mr. Kim also worked at Kim & Chang from September 2018 to January 2019. From February 2019 to January 2022, he worked as the managing partner of Law Firm Moon Pyung. Thereafter, Mr. Kim joined LIN. Currently, he is providing legal advice to institutions and companies by working as arbitrator to the Korea Commercial Arbitration Board, advisory attorney for the Gyeonggi Branch of the Korean Dental Association, and advisory attorney for Snooey Lab Co., Ltd. He also operates his own Youtube channel called “Bu-mo Attorney Kim Chul Soo TV”, Naver Blog called “Bu-mo Attorney Kim Chul Soo”, and other social media accounts at Facebook and Instagram(boomolawyer2022). As a reference, “Bu-mo” attorney has two meanings: (1) a lawyer, having worked as a chief prosecutor, who provides legal services in all fields of law, not to mention criminal law, and (2) a lawyer who performs his best in dealing with cases entrusted to him with the heart of parents.  
Profile
Experience
Past) Seoul District Prosecutors’ Office – Prosecutor
Past) Chuncheon District Prosecutors’ Office, Gangneung Branch – Senior Prosecutor
Past) Korean Consulate General in Los Angeles – Legal Attache
Past) Seoul Western District Prosecutors’ Office – Supervising Prosecutor of Criminal Division 2 
Past) Supreme Prosecutors’ Office – Chief of the International Cooperation Center (2001 – 2018)
Past) Kim & Chang – Attorney at Law (Sep. 2018 – Jan. 2019)
Past) Law Firm Moon Pyung – Managing Partner (Feb. 2019 – Jan. 2022)
 Current) LIN
Representative Matters 화살표 화살표
Cosmetic company trade secret case 
Case of violation of the Capital Market Act through stock price manipulation, etc. 
Response to a domestic company’s SEC violation
Obtained a suspense prosecution for a case in which a Korean citizen had been indicted for a matter in which the Korean citizen has already received punishment in the U.S. 
Represented a complainant and responded to the accused’s trial in a case where both parties sued each other for the dispossession of property with regard to the right of retention 
Obtained a dismissal of the charges in a short term after accepting a 2-year cold case involving a violation of the Housing Act, and also obtained a closure in a short term for the matter in which re-investigation was ordered 
Obtained a dismissal of the charges in a case in which court’s recognition of committing ‘Prohibition of Use of Name’ under the Passenger Transport Service Act would lead to cancellation of the company’s registration
Obtained a dismissal of the charges within 5 months from taking on a case relating to a violation of the Punishment of Tax Offenses Act which has been ongoing for more than 3 years
Lifted the stay of indictment against the accused by arguing the possibility to make a final decision on it and obtained a dismissal of the charges against the accused upon the principal’s arrest in a case where the accused has been accused of employment fraud at the U.S. Armed Forces and the indictment had been stayed due to the absence of witness
Obtained a dismissal of the charges against an employer of a small to medium-sized company in a case where the employee claimed the right to designate the dates for his annual leaves by seeking to convert the days on which he was absent without leave into his annual leaves
Represented a lender (complainant) who could not recover KRW 300 million from the borrower for 9 years, in a case which has been transferred to the prosecutors’ office with the summary opinion that there are no criminal charges to be made against the accused and later successfully obtained the prosecutor’s decision to institute formal criminal proceedings (with instruction of further investigation) against the accused by confirming that the accused has been found guilty in a similar case at the trial level and that such decision is being appealed
Obtained a dismissal of the charges against the accused by proving that the co-suspect is the real criminal in a criminal case involving investment fraud of the operating funds of a dentist
Obtained a dismissal of the charges in a criminal case by submitting a statement of opinion including an excel-file analysis of a 111-day sales records and the inventory records of a restaurant of the Livestock Cooperative Federation, where the restaurant had been accused of providing less meat than the stated amount
Obtained a re-investigation order by claiming that the investigation was insufficient as the seizure and search were not taken place for the relevant checks and accounts in a case where the charges were initially filed for fraud and business embezzlement but were dismissed
Activities 화살표 화살표
Current) Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB) – Arbitrator
Current) Korean Dental Association, Gyeonggi Branch – Advisory Lawyer
Current) SNUAILAB – Advisory Lawyer
Education

Seoul National University, College of Law
• Korean Bar Examination (37th)
Judicial Research and Training Institute (27th)
• Santa Clara Law School (V.S.)
British Institute of International and Comparative Law (V.F.)

Qualifications
Attorney at Law
 
Publications/Thesis
Prosecution Process and Judicial Reform Related Issues in the UK (2012 Overseas Training Prosecutor Research Papers 27th Volume, Institute of Justice 2012)
Practice Areas

• Investigations
• Civil and criminal cases
• Corporate advisory 
• Arbitration

Languages

Korean
English

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