Mr. Young Jong KIM is a partner at D&A LLC. His practice is primarily focused on Corporate, Compliance, Criminal Defense Litigation, and General Civil Disputes.

Bar Admissions

• Admitted to Bar, Korea (1994)

Education

• Visiting Scholar, The George Washington University (2006)
• Hanyang University Graduate School (LLM, Completed Coursework, 1995)
• Hanyang University (LLB, 1988)
• Konkuk University High School (1984)

Significant Accomplishments

• D&A LLC (2026-Present)
• Executive Vice President, COREE Pohang, COREE Group (2024)
• Head of Legal (Executive Vice President), POSCO Holdings Inc. (2022)
• Managing Partner, Homin Law Firm (2020)
• Managing Partner, Songgyeol Law Office (2017)
• Chief Prosecutor, Anyang Branch of Suwon District Prosecutors' Office (2016)
• Deputy Chief Prosecutor, Uijeongbu District Prosecutors' Office (2015)
• Deputy Chief Prosecutor, Ansan Branch of Suwon District Prosecutors' Office (2014)
• Director, Criminal Intelligence Planning Bureau, Supreme Prosecutors' Office (2013)
• Chief Prosecutor, Criminal Department I, Busan District Prosecutors' Office (2012)
• Chief Prosecutor, High-Tech Crime Investigation Department I, Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office (2011)
• Director, Criminal Intelligence Division I, Supreme Prosecutors' Office (2010)
• Chief Prosecutor, High-Tech Crime Investigation Division I, Supreme Prosecutors' Office (2009)
• Deputy Departmental Chief Prosecutor, Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office (2009)
• Chief Prosecutor, Yeondong Branch of Cheongju District Prosecutors' Office (2008)
• Departmental Chief Prosecutor, Gangneung Branch of Chuncheon District Prosecutors' Office (2007)
• Deputy Departmental Chief Prosecutor, Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office (2006)
• Prosecutor, Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office (2005)
• Prosecutor, Prosecutorial Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Justice (2003)
• Prosecutor, Suwon District Prosecutors' Office (2001)
• Prosecutor, Changwon District Prosecutors' Office (1999)
• Prosecutor, Seoul Northern District Prosecutors’ Office (1997)
• Prosecutor, Gangneung Branch of Chuncheon District Prosecutors' Office (1996)
• Prosecutor, Seoul District Prosecutors' Office (1993)
• Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (1994)

Professional Activities and Experience

• Handled digital forensics on a number of cases related to violation of the Unfair Competition Prevention and Trade Secret Protection Act
• Handled digital forensics on a number of cases related to hackings and violation of the Personal Information Protection Act
• Handled digital forensics on a number of cases related to violation of fair trade
• Participated in digital forensics on a number of cases related to security

• A Stable Evidence Collection Procedure of a Volatile Data in Research, ICCSA2007 LNCS (2007)
• KMFM realization for real-time P2P messenger IP trace, ICISS2008 IEEE (2008)
• Physical Defect Recovery Methodology of Hard Disk, Convergence Security Journal, Vol.8, No.1 (2008)
• Developed Optimizing File Delete Detection Model, Convergence Security Journal, Vol.8, No.2 (2008)
• Design and Implementation of Web Server Security System using Virtualization, Convergence Security Journal, Vol.8, No.4 (2008)
• An Effective Control Method for Improving Integrity of Mobile Phone Forensics Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology, Vol.9, No.5 (2009)
• A Study on DDoS (Distribute Denial of Service) Attack Detection Model Based on Statistical, Convergence Security Journal, Vol.9, No.4 (2009)
• A Research on Gender Analysis of BGP Security, Convergence Security Journal, Vol.9, No.4 (2009)
• A Forensic Model on Deleted-File Verification for Securing Digital Evidence, ICISA2010 IEEE (2010)
• User Recognition based TV Programs Recommendation System in Smart Devices Environment, The Society of Digital Policy & Management (2013)
• The problem point and improvement program of the scene search and seizure of digital evidence at practical affairs, Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering (2013)
• A study on cyber threat prediction based on intrusion detection event for APT attack detection, Multimedia Tools and Applications [SCI] (2014)
• A Study on the Implementation of the Privacy Impact Assessment Management System for Enterprise, Convergence Security Journal, Vol.15, No.4 (2015)
• Extracting real IP address used to connect to P2P messenger using ARIT agent. Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications [SCI] (2015)
• A node management scheme for stable P2P service in mobile ad-hoc networks, Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications [SCI] (2016)
• mVoIP for P2P service based authentication system using AA authentication server. Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications [SCI] (2016)