Saemee Kim is a Korean attorney at Lee & Ko’s International Arbitration Team, with experience in arbitration and pre-arbitration and enforcement proceedings of various cross-border disputes related to M&A, life sciences, telecommunications, shipping, and construction matters. She has represented both domestic and foreign clients in various arbitration cases before the ICC, LCIA, ICDR and KCAB as well as ad hoc arbitrations and cross-border litigation cases at foreign courts including U.S., France, Italy, Colombia, Cambodia, and Malaysia. She also has numerous experiences acting as counsel in domestic court hearings for both domestic and foreign clients.

She is actively engaged in the international arbitration community. She served as a Young ICCA Event Coordinator for the North Asia region (2018-2022), and as a Young ICCA Events Co-director (2022-2024). Currently, she is the ICC YAAF Representative for South Korea 2024-2026 Mandate and a Delegate of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR.

Additionally, Ms. Kim also sits as an arbitrator.

“an exceptional young practitioner with strong analytical skills and a great commercial understanding of international disputes”
-Who’s Who Legal Arbitration 2021-

“high praise from market sources who endorse her as ‘a hard worker’ and ‘one of the up-and-coming arbitration practitioners’ in the market”.
-Who’s Who Legal Arbitration (Korea) 2019-

“a dynamic arbitration lawyer" who is recognized as “a future star in the Korean arbitration community”
-Who’s Who Legal Arbitration 2019-