Noh-Kong Lee

Partner

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Ms. Noh Kong Lee is a partner in the Litigation Practice Group at Shin & Kim, who focuses her practice on corporate compliance and anti-corruption, corporate investigations and white-collar crime, and cross-border criminal matters. She began her legal career as a public prosecutor in 1997.

Ms. Lee was the first woman in Korea to serve as the fourth deputy chief prosecutor at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office, and as the head of the Seongnam Branch of the Suwon District Prosecutors' Office. She retired from the prosecutors’ office in February 2020.

Ms. Lee’s distinguished public service career includes various key roles. These include: Incheon District Prosecutors' Office and the Attorney General’s Office of the Korean Ministry of Justice; professor at the Judicial Research and Training Institute; head of the Criminal Dept. #2 of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office; head of Criminal Trial Dept. #3 of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office; head of the Youngdong Branch of the Cheongju District Prosecutors' Office; head of the Criminal Dept. #3 of the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office; and as a deputy chief prosecutor at the Bucheon Branch of the Incheon District Prosecutors' Office. Ms. Lee has over 23 years of significant experience, based on her involvement as a prosecutor in various high-profile criminal cases (includingcorporate embezzlement, malpractice, economic & tax-related cases, advanced technology- related cases, violent crime cases, food & drug-related cases) as well as related investigations and trials.

Education

1996 Yonsei University, Graduate School of Law (LL.M.)

1992 Yonsei University, College of Law (LL.B.)

Professional Career 2020.3-Present Shin & Kim LLC

2019.8 Chief Prosecutor, Seongnam Branch, Suwon District Prosecutors' Office

2018.7 4th Deputy Chief Prosecutor, Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office

2017.8 Deputy Chief Prosecutor, Bucheon Branch Office at Incheon District Prosecutors' Office

2016.1 Head, Human Rights Policy Dept., Ministry of Justice

2015.2 Senior Prosecutor, Criminal Dept. #3, Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office

2014.1 Chief Prosecutor, Youngdong Branch, Cheongju District Prosecutors' Office

2013.4 Senior Prosecutor, Criminal Trial Dept. #3, Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office

2012.7 Director, Criminal Dept. #2, Supreme Prosecutors' Office

2011.9 Senior Prosecutor, Criminal Trial Dept., Suwon District Prosecutor's Office

2009 Professor, Judicial Research & Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea

2007 Prosecutor, Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office

2005 Prosecutor, Cheonan Branch, Daejeon District Prosecutor's Office

2003 Prosecutor, Attorney General's Office, Ministry of Justice

2001 Prosecutor, Incheon District Prosecutors' Office

1999 Prosecutor, Western Branch, Seoul District Prosecutor's Office

1997 Prosecutor, Seongnam Branch, Suwon District Prosecutors' Office

1995-1997 Judicial Research & Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea

Bar Admissions

1997 Korea

Memberships

Korean Bar Association

Languages