Weekly Korean Legal News from International Law Firm – IPG Legal

This Week’s Korea Legal News Reported by the Media

• Public organizations seek to sell 7 tln won worth of properties
• Korean won sharply weakens on emerging market woes
• S. Korea struggles to catch up with leading economies: report
• Samsung Backtracks Over University Quota
• Samsung, Google Sign Patent-Sharing Deal
• Highly educated ‘economically inactive’ people top 3 mln: data
• Korea braces for change in MENA

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Sean Hayes may be contacted for a consultation by emailing him at: SeanHayes@ipglegal.com or via the numbers shown to the left. Sean Hayes is co-chair of the Korea Practice Team at IPG Legal. He is the first non-Korean attorney to have worked for the Korean court system (Constitutional Court of Korea) and one of the first non-Koreans to be a regular member of a Korean law faculty. He assists clients in their contentious, non-contentious and business developments needs in Korea and China. He has, recently, been ranked as one of only two non-Korean attorneys as a Top Attorney working in Korea by AsiaLaw.