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Ki Hwan Ahn Partner
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Ki Hwan Ahn is a partner at Yoon & Yang LLC and his main practice area is general litigation including civil and criminal defense.
After the first appointment as a judge in March 1986, Mr. Ahn served various positions including a judge at the Busan District Court, Uijeongbu District Court, Seoul Northern District Court, Seoul Central District Court and Seoul High Court, judicial researcher at the Supreme Court (administrative law group), presiding judge of the Seoul Central District Court and chief judge of the Ansan Branch of the Suwon District Court.
His broad experience also covers general commercial and civil cases (real estate, corporate litigations, and medical litigations, etc.), administrative cases (compensation for land expropriation, litigation to seek nullification or revocation of administrative dispositions, etc.), and criminal cases, as he handled such matters as an administrative case researcher at the Supreme Court, and a presiding judge specializing in criminal cases at the Uijeongbu District Court and the Seoul Northern District Court, and in mediation cases at the Seoul Central District Court.

Experience

  • 2009-present Yoon & Yang LLC
  • 2023-present Non-permanent Mediator, Korea Medical Dispute Mediation and Arbitration Agency
  • 2015-present Head Mediation Committee, ICT Complaint Mediation Center, Korea Association for ICT Promotion
  • 2013-present Legal Advisor, Korea Land and Housing Corporation
  • 2010-present Member of ICT Complaint Mediation Center Korea Association for ICT Promotion
  • 2015-17 Member of Seongdong-gu Ombudsman Committee for Residents
  • 2014-17 Member of Personnel Committee, Seoul Metro
  • 2010-14 Commissioner, Commission for Democratization Movement Activists’ Honor-restoration and Compensation
  • 2008-09 Chief Judge, Ansan Branch of Suwon District Court
  • 2006-08 Presiding Judge, Seoul Central District Court
  • 2004-06 Presiding Judge, Seoul Northern District Court
  • 2001-04 Presiding Judge, Uijeongbu Branch of Seoul District Court
  • 1999-01 Judicial Researcher, Supreme Court
  • 1997-99 Judge, Seoul High Court
  • 1996-97 Judge, Seoul District Court
  • 1994-96 Judge, Bukbu Branch of Seoul District Court
  • 1991-94 Judge, Uijeongbu Branch of Seoul District Court
  • 1986-91 Judge, Busan District Court

Education

  • 1985 Judicial Research and Training Institute
  • 1983 Hanyang University College of Law, LL.B.

Representative Matters

  • Handled the case between the Korea Land and Housing Corporation and Seoul City Gas on payment of installation costs for arterial facilities for gas supply
  • Handled the litigation seeking return of the sale price of apartments in Gimpo Hangang New Town developed and constructed by Woonam Construction and Woonam CORP
  • Handled the where an engineer with a world-class material technology was deceived by a takeover artist in the course of an M&A and was consequently prosecuted for a violation of the Act on the Aggravated Punishment, etc. of Specific Economic Crimes (fraud)

Publications

  • Relations between Standard Income Rates and and the Principle of No Taxation without Law (Master’s Thesis)