Yeongcheol Kim is a criminal law attorney at Lee & Ko. Before joining the firm in 2026, he served as a public prosecutor for 21 years, from 2004 to 2025.

During his prosecutorial career, Mr. Kim held positions in a number of major investigation units, including the Central Investigation Department of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office, the Special Investigation Division of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office, the Joint Securities Crime Investigation Team of the Seoul Central and Seoul Southern District Prosecutors’ Offices, the Special Prosecutor’s Office for the Park Geun-hye administration’s “Choi Soon-sil” influence-peddling investigation, and the Anti-Corruption Investigation Division of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office. He also served in key positions such as Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the Special Investigation Team and the Anti-Corruption Investigation Division 2 at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office, Head of the Anti-Corruption Division 1 at the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office, and Deputy Chief Prosecutor at the Seoul Northern District Prosecutors’ Office.

Mr. Kim was also a founding member of the Joint Securities Crime Investigation Team, where he handled numerous financial and securities crime matters over a three-year period, including cases involving stock price manipulation, fraudulent trading, and insider trading under the Capital Markets Act. Through his extensive service in special investigation and anti-corruption units, he also handled a broad range of major corporate and financial crime matters, including cases involving mergers and acquisitions, accounting fraud, technology leakage, embezzlement, breach of fiduciary duty, savings bank corruption, and tax and customs evasion involving global companies.

Drawing on this extensive prosecutorial experience, Mr. Kim advises clients on a wide range of criminal and regulatory matters, including corporate, financial, securities, virtual asset, tax, customs, and technology leakage issues.