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  • AMCHAM Joint Legal Affairs / ICT & AI Committee Meeting
    • DATE & TIME

      Tuesday, June 16, 2026

      11:00 AM - 1:30 PM

      11:00 AM - 11:30 AM: Registration & Networking
      11:30 AM - 12:30 PM: Program
      12:30 PM - 1:30 PM: Lunch
    • VENUE

      Grand Hyatt Seoul, Sansoo (L1)

    EVENT DESCRIPTION
    This program will provide a practical overview of the key requirements under Korea’s AI Basic Act and what companies should be doing now to prepare during the upcoming one-year grace period before full implementation. Bringing together leading legal, policy, and industry practitioners, the discussion will explore some of the most commercially significant issues facing companies operating in Korea, including:

    • domestic agent requirements,
    • transparency and watermarking obligations,
    • "high-impact AI" assessments and HR considerations, and
    • AI product-related disputes and liability risks.

    Speakers will also share practical insights into how companies are beginning to implement internal AI governance and compliance frameworks in response to rapidly evolving regulatory expectations. As organizations across industries increasingly integrate AI into their operations, products, and workforce strategies, the session is expected to offer valuable guidance for business, legal, compliance, HR, public policy, and technology leaders alike.
    Detail
    TOPIC The AI Act is Now Effective - Is Your Company Ready?
    COST KRW KRW 145,000 for members (Member)
    KRW KRW 145,000 non-members (My company is an AMCHAM-Member)
    KRW KRW 178,000 non-members (Non-Member)
    RSVP/PAYMENT BY Noon, Friday, June 12, 2026
    About the Speaker

    • Yeajin Suh, Corporate Counsel, McKinsey & Company
      Jinny Suh is currently an Associate General Counsel at McKinsey & Company, where she advises on cross-border commercial engagements and legal governance. Her work sits at the intersection of law, business judgment, and emerging technology, including how AI is reshaping legal workflows and decision-making inside organizations.
      A dual-qualified attorney in Korea and New York with over 18 years of experience, Jinny has built her career across private practice, entrepreneurship, and in-house counsel roles at global firms. She previously practiced at Kim & Chang and ran her own legal practice before transitioning to her current role. As a generalist in an increasingly specialized legal environment, Jinny connects the dots across diverse legal domains, offering both a broad understanding of Korea’s legal framework and actionable tools for foreign professionals.
      She holds law degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles and Seoul National University. Jinny is the author of Korea Law 101 and regularly speaks on legal technology, AI, and the evolving role of legal counsel.

    • Christopher Mandel, Senior Foreign Counsel, Yulchon
      Christopher Mandel is a senior foreign counsel at Yulchon, where he has practiced employment and labor law for over twelve years. His expertise includes large and small-scale restructurings, individual executive and employee separations, internal investigations, labor relations, and all manner of employment-law compliance matters for foreign multinational companies with workforces in Korea. Chris previously worked as an associate in the New York office of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. He also clerked for the Honorable William H. Yohn, Jr. of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

    • Yunsoo Shin, Partner, Peter & Kim
      Yunsoo Shin is a partner at Peter & Kim and a highly regarded specialist in international commercial disputes and arbitration. She currently serves as a member of the ICC Court for the 2024–2027 term and is a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. Dr. Shin has acted as arbitrator and counsel in major cross-border disputes under the rules of the ICC, SIAC, LCIA, HKIAC, ACICA, and KCAB, with extensive experience advising on complex post-M&A disputes, construction, manufacturing, distribution, licensing, and other commercial matters involving leading Korean conglomerates. She is widely recognized as one of Korea’s leading young arbitration practitioners and has received numerous accolades, including “Lawyer of the Year” in international arbitration by Legal Times (2024) and “Woman Lawyer of the Year” in Korea by Asian Legal Business (2023).

      Dual licensed in New York and Korea, Dr. Shin brings deep expertise across both common law and civil law systems, particularly in M&A disputes, finance, and corporate valuation. She holds degrees from Seoul National University, The Wharton School, and Harvard Law School, where she earned her SJD in corporate governance and finance. Prior to joining Peter & Kim, she practiced at Bae, Kim & Lee LLC for a decade and served as a fellow with Harvard Law School’s Program on Corporate Governance. She has also published extensively on international commercial disputes, shareholder disputes, and corporate governance issues in both Korea and the United States.

    • Kumsun Kim, Senior Corporate Counsel, Microsoft Korea
      With a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, Kumsun Kim provides legal support to Microsoft’s enterprise business in Korea, supporting regulatory compliance of the company and its customers. Her main job is to help regulators and customers better understand the Microsoft AI and Cloud through the lenses of data protection, privacy, cybersecurity, ultimately aiming at fostering trust and integrity in the market. By engaging with regulators and customers navigating the complex and ever-evolving regulatory landscape, she helps to translate market feedback into actionable insights for legislative and enforcement bodies, thereby promoting a balanced and effective regulatory framework. Prior to Microsoft, she worked at law firms in Korea, where she managed privacy, software license, copyright related matters and M&A transactions.

    • Maria Hajiyerou, Senior Foreign Counsel, Kim & Chang
      Maria Hajiyerou is a senior foreign attorney at Kim & Chang with nearly 15 years of experience advising multinational and domestic clients on complex regulatory and compliance matters in Korea. Her practice focuses on antitrust and competition law, privacy and data security, and regulatory issues, particularly in the food & beverage and sports & luxury sectors.

      As a member of the Antitrust & Competition Practice, Ms. Hajiyerou has extensive experience handling cross-border merger reviews before the Korea Fair Trade Commission (“KFTC”), including high profile transactions in the software, food, chemical and healthcare industries. She also advises clients in KFTC investigations involving cartels, unfair trade practices and franchise-related matters. Notably, she assisted a team that successfully overturned a 2017 KFTC decision against a US-based advanced materials company, marking the first Korean Supreme Court ruling finding that non-pricing vertical restraints are legal under Korean competition law.
    Contact

    (email) committees@amchamkorea.org

    (phone) 02-6201-2229

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