Weekly Korean Legal News from International Law Firm – IPG Legal

This Week’s Korean Legal News Reported by the Media

• Tears and joy as separated families reunite
• LG wins battle against patent troll in U.S.
• Seoul urges Japan to stop attempts to whitewash wartime sexual enslavement
• KB loses big on Kazakh bank stake
• No more ‘parachuted’ CEOs at state firms
• Google expands ad market presence
• Hyundai to boost sale of fashion items

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Sean Hayes may be contacted at: SeanHayes@ipglegal.com. 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 has, recently, been ranked as one of only two non-Korean attorneys as a Top Attorney working in Korea by AsiaLaw.