PRACTICES
- Criminal Dispute Resolution
- Civil, Commercial, and Insurance Disputes
- Administrative Litigation and Appeals
- Antitrust and Consumer Disputesa
Criminal Dispute Resolution
“At the front line of crisis response, our experience becomes your shield.”
LK PARTNERS delivers integrated solutions that go beyond legal advice, including strategic decision-making in crises, media and regulator response, and recurrence-prevention systems.
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Criminal matters directly affect an individual’s social credibility and a company’s viability, so meticulous strategy is required from the first response through final judgment. Corporate criminal cases require more than legal defense. They also demand reputation management, stronger internal controls, and calibrated engagement with regulators.
Drawing on extensive experience across:
⋅ Corporate crime: breach of duty, embezzlement, trade secrets, fair trade, environmental, labor matters
⋅ Healthcare crime: medical accidents, rebates, violations of the Medical Service Act and the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act
⋅ Economic crime: fraud, illegal fundraising, Capital Markets Act violations, tax crimes
⋅ Individual crime: assault, defamation, sex offenses and related matters
we identify the core issues, design a consistent defense from the investigation stage to trial and appeal, and tailor strategies to each client’s situation. We cover the full process, including complaints, investigations, detention hearings, criminal trials, and appeals.
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- Filing and defending complaints, early-stage investigation response
- Defense in corporate and individual criminal cases
- Detention warrant hearings and bail applications
- Representation throughout trial and appeals
- Defense in special regulatory offenses in healthcare and life sciences
- Corporate criminal risk audits and compliance advisory
- Media and regulator response, recurrence-prevention systems
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- Secured partial no-charge and sentence reductions in major hospital rebate cases
- Won cancellation of business-suspension orders and achieved successful defense in illegal drug distribution by pharmacies
- No-charge disposition in unlicensed medical practice allegation
- Reduced fines and minimized administrative sanctions in medical advertising cases
- Defense in Propofol and other Narcotics Control Act matters
- Defense in Medical Service Act cases involving foreign patient recruitment
- Defense in medical-accident criminal negligence cases
- Defense in violations of the Creation and Management of Forest Resources Act
- Defense in bribery cases involving reconstruction association officers
- Defense for public officials and professors in Improper Solicitation and Graft Act cases
- Defense in numerous cases of false accusation, defamation, and Road Traffic Act violations
Civil, Commercial, and Insurance Disputes
“More than a litigator, we are your strategic partner for end-to-end dispute risk management.”
LK PARTNERS considers legal issues together with business interests, reputation, and relationship continuity. We deliver strategies that maximize practical outcomes. Based on case law analytics and sector insight, we provide proactive civil-dispute responses and solutions that minimize conflict.
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Civil disputes arise frequently in contract interpretation, claims and debts, damages, real estate transactions, and insurance. Once litigation begins, losses and reputational harm can be significant. Complex contracts, multiple stakeholders, and insurance and damages issues require high-level analysis and deep courtroom experience.
We support the full cycle from preventive counseling to litigation, arbitration, and mediation. We test for contract risk at the drafting stage to prevent disputes, and when conflict occurs we deliver swift, effective resolutions based on accrued litigation experience.
We have substantial experience acting for insurers in coverage disputes, including duty of disclosure, diagnostic validity, and policy interpretation. We test the validity of claims against legal doctrines on formation, termination, and coverage, combining medical and legal analysis to assess and defend insurer liability. We also advise on Insurance Act and Insurance Business Act issues, policy drafting and revision, and compliance across the insurance industry.
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- Defense for insurers in coverage and policy disputes, including disclosure breaches, diagnostic adequacy, policy interpretation, and coverage determinations
- Advisory on life, non-life, personal and liability insurance disputes
- Litigation on contracts, claims and debts, and damages
- Advisory and litigation on commercial transactions, control disputes, and shareholder matters
- ADR support, including mediation and arbitration
- Advisory on large-scale civil, defect, real estate, and construction disputes
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- Multiple opinions on rare-disease coverage and policy application for insurers
- Established insurer non-liability by proving disclosure breaches in coverage suits
- Secured full non-liability in cases alleging false or inflated medical certificates
- Court upheld insurer’s interpretation in policy-construction disputes
- Victory in large retail lease litigation
- Defense in fire-loss damages claims
- Defense in claims and debts litigation related to data-center development
- Litigation on pre-sale rights in Noryangjin Zones 8 and 5, Bangbae Zone 6, Susaek Zone 13, Galhyeon Zone 1
- Litigation on apartment defects and contaminated-soil damages
- Refund suits for regional housing association contributions
- Suits on construction and service fees and specific performance
- Eviction, delivery, and injunctions on transfer of possession
- Suits for cancellation of title transfers and fraudulent conveyance
Administrative Litigation and Appeals
“From prevention to redress, we manage regulatory risk in an integrated way.
Grounded in legal expertise and sector knowledge, LK PARTNERS analyzes legal bases and procedural defects to obtain revocations and reductions, and builds sustainable strategies so clients are not re-exposed to the same risks.
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Administrative sanctions affect business operations, reputation, market access, and individual livelihoods. License cancellations, suspensions, business shutdowns, and fines are not temporary setbacks but fundamental threats to continuity and competitiveness.
We provide end-to-end support from prevention to redress across healthcare, pharma and biotech, real estate and construction, finance and investment, and energy and environment. We intervene early when sanctions are anticipated, submitting opinions and evidence during investigations and hearings and formulating strategies at the advance-notice stage to reduce the likelihood of adverse dispositions.
Where sanctions have issued, we file administrative appeals and applications to stay enforcement, bring cancellation and nullity suits, challenge or reduce fines, and manage follow-on procedures for license renewal or reissuance, while building a long-term regulatory strategy.
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- Suits and appeals to cancel licenses and administrative dispositions
- Responses to MOHW, MFDS, and NHIS actions, including clawbacks, license revocations, GMP or manufacturing suspensions, and rebate sanctions
- Responses to cancellations and suspensions of permits, refusals to approve or amend development plans, and measures related to trusts and PF regulation
- Responses to FSS and KFTC sanctions, fines, hearings, and stays of effect
- Participation in on-site and administrative investigations
- Preventive consulting on regulatory risk
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- Multiple wins canceling suspension orders against medical institutions
- Suits canceling qualification suspensions under the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act
- Victory canceling NHIS clawback of medical-care reimbursements
- Minimization of sanctions in medical advertising cases
- Suits canceling project implementation plans
- Suits canceling management and disposition plans
- Suits canceling approvals for association establishment
- Suits increasing compensation in land expropriation
- Tax litigation canceling assessments of global income tax, acquisition tax, and income tax
Antitrust and Consumer Disputes
“From prevention to redress, we manage regulatory risk in a unified framework.”
LK PARTNERS covers the full continuum in antitrust and consumer law, from early responses to investigations through litigation and compliance. We build durable systems that protect trust and sustain long-term risk control.
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Antitrust disputes include cartels, abuse of dominance, unfair trade practices, unlawful rebates, violations of the Subcontracting Act, the Large-Scale Distribution Act, and the Franchise Act, and consumer class actions. KFTC investigations often lead to criminal, administrative, and civil exposure, so layered, expert response at the outset is critical.
From the start of a KFTC investigation we:
⋅ Manage document production and on-site inspections
⋅ Prepare and support appearances and testimony
⋅ Submit opinions and rebuttal briefs to examiner reports
⋅ Seek fine reductions and non-referral outcomesWe leverage settlement tools such as KFTC mediation and consent decisions to resolve matters early and reduce fundamental risk. As antitrust issues increasingly spill into consumer class procedures, we defend class claims and damages suits, represent clients before the Consumer Dispute Mediation Committees, respond to recalls and corrective orders, and manage consumer complaints and media strategy to protect reputation and business continuity.
Beyond after-the-fact defense, we build customized antitrust and consumer-protection compliance programs, update internal controls and risk manuals, and deliver executive and employee training so companies prevent violations in advance.
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- KFTC investigation response and defense
- Responses to KOFTRA mediation procedures
- Advisory and litigation on cartels and unfair practices
- Preventive counseling on potential antitrust issues, including contract reviews and compliance
- Antitrust compliance consulting and internal policy development
- Appeals against fines and business-suspension measures
- Defense against consumer claims and class actions
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- Concurrent defense across criminal and administrative tracks in pharma rebate cases
- Fine reductions and no-charge outcomes in distributor price-fixing cases
- No-violation disposition in unfair-practice investigation of a medical-device company
- Defense of global corporations in consumer class actions
- Consumer claims defense for food companies
- Review and revision of unfair terms in purchase-agency, entrustment, and franchise agreements
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