Seo Kyung Kim is a member of the Healthcare/Life Sciences Group and the Corporate Practice Group. With a strong academic foundation in biological sciences, she advises clients on a broad range of regulatory, transactional, and dispute matters involving pharmaceuticals, medical devices, consumer chemical products, cosmetics, and food products. Her practice also includes intellectual property matters in these sectors, including patent and trade secret disputes.
Representative Cases
[Healthcare and Life Sciences]
Defended a Consumer Products Company in Litigation Relating to Humidifier Disinfectants
Counseled on Drug Price regarding Reimbursement of New Drug, Health Insurance Benefits, Economic Feasibility Analysis, Reassessment of Reimbursement, and Price-Volume Agreement (PVA)
Counseled on Obtaining and Changing the Market Approvals, Product Classification, Investigational New Device (IND) Approvals, New Health Technology Assessment (nHTA), and Innovative Medical Device Designation of Medical Devices
Represented a Medical Device Products Company in Criminal Proceedings related to Medical Devices Act
Counseled on Responding to Application Rejection for Conditional Approval of Cell Therapeutics by Ministry of Food and Drug Safety
Counseled on Responding to Violation of Food Sanitation Act, Pharmaceutical Affairs Act, Medical Devices Act, In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Act
Counseled on Responding to Notification of Administrative Disposition by Ministry of Health and Welfare
Counseled on Legal Compliance for Operation of Medical Institutions
Counseled on Import and Commercialization of Medical Devices
Counseled on Recall of Medical Devices
Counseled on Legal Compliance for Medical Advertisement
Counseled on Responding to Regulation of Medical Software
Counseled on Execution of Joint Research Development Agreement of Pharmaceutical Product
Counseled on Permissibility of Food, Health Functional Food, Cosmetic Ingredients
Counseled on Legal Compliance of Labeling and Packaging of Cosmetic Products
Counseled on Addressing Issues with Contribution Funding of Domestic Medical Center
Counseled on Responding to Regulation of Advanced Biologics
Counseled on Responding to Regulation of High Risk Pathogens according to the Infectious Disease Control and Prevention Act
Counseled on Responding to Notice of the Price Adjustment of Drugs
Counseled on Research, Preservation, Management and Provision, etc. of the Human Materials
Counseled on Legal Compliance for Pharmaceutical Platform Businesses
[Intellectual Property]
Represented Global Pharmaceutical Company in Patent Infringement Lawsuit and Injunction Action on Anticoagulant Drug
Represented Global Pharmaceutical Company in Disputes on Anticancer Drug
Represented Domestic Pharmaceutical Company in Disputes on Botulinum Toxin Product
Counseled on Patent Validity of Domestic Biosimilar Company
Counseled on Launching of Educational Software in Foreign Market
Counseled Leading Hotel Franchises on Franchise Compliance Issues
Counseled on Legal Compliance for SNS Softwares
Represented Domestic Major Company in Korea in Patent Infringement Lawsuit on Drug
Represented Global Company in Patent Infringement Lawsuit and Investigation into Unfair Trade Practices on Insulation Material
Counseled on Legal Compliance for License Agreements
Counseled on Disclosure and Use of Trade Secrets by Ex-Employees and Competing Companies
[Others]
Counseled on Quarantine Exemption
Counseled on Responding to Malicious Media Report
Conducted Review of Various Contracts in compliance with Korean Law
Seo Kyung Kim is a member of the Healthcare/Life Sciences Group and the Corporate Practice Group. With a strong academic foundation in biological sciences, she advises clients on a broad range of regulatory, transactional, and dispute matters involving pharmaceuticals, medical devices, consumer chemical products, cosmetics, and food products. Her practice also includes intellectual property matters in these sectors, including patent and trade secret disputes.
Education
2025
UCLA School of Law - LL.M.
2019
Seoul National University School of Law - J.D.
2016
KAIST - B.S. in Biological Sciences (summa cum laude)
Work Experience
2019-Present
Lee & Ko
Expertise
Life Sciences · Pharmaceuticals
Healthcare
Healthcare & Pharma Litigation
Product Liability
IP Litigation
IP Transactions & Licensing
Healthcare · Life Sciences
Admissions & Qualifications
Admitted to the Korean Bar(2019)
Languages
Korean and English
Representative Cases
[Healthcare and Life Sciences]
Defended a Consumer Products Company in Litigation Relating to Humidifier Disinfectants
Counseled on Drug Price regarding Reimbursement of New Drug, Health Insurance Benefits, Economic Feasibility Analysis, Reassessment of Reimbursement, and Price-Volume Agreement (PVA)
Counseled on Obtaining and Changing the Market Approvals, Product Classification, Investigational New Device (IND) Approvals, New Health Technology Assessment (nHTA), and Innovative Medical Device Designation of Medical Devices
Represented a Medical Device Products Company in Criminal Proceedings related to Medical Devices Act
Counseled on Responding to Application Rejection for Conditional Approval of Cell Therapeutics by Ministry of Food and Drug Safety
Counseled on Responding to Violation of Food Sanitation Act, Pharmaceutical Affairs Act, Medical Devices Act, In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Act
Counseled on Responding to Notification of Administrative Disposition by Ministry of Health and Welfare
Counseled on Legal Compliance for Operation of Medical Institutions
Counseled on Import and Commercialization of Medical Devices
Counseled on Recall of Medical Devices
Counseled on Legal Compliance for Medical Advertisement
Counseled on Responding to Regulation of Medical Software
Counseled on Execution of Joint Research Development Agreement of Pharmaceutical Product
Counseled on Permissibility of Food, Health Functional Food, Cosmetic Ingredients
Counseled on Legal Compliance of Labeling and Packaging of Cosmetic Products
Counseled on Addressing Issues with Contribution Funding of Domestic Medical Center
Counseled on Responding to Regulation of Advanced Biologics
Counseled on Responding to Regulation of High Risk Pathogens according to the Infectious Disease Control and Prevention Act
Counseled on Responding to Notice of the Price Adjustment of Drugs
Counseled on Research, Preservation, Management and Provision, etc. of the Human Materials
Counseled on Legal Compliance for Pharmaceutical Platform Businesses
[Intellectual Property]
Represented Global Pharmaceutical Company in Patent Infringement Lawsuit and Injunction Action on Anticoagulant Drug
Represented Global Pharmaceutical Company in Disputes on Anticancer Drug
Represented Domestic Pharmaceutical Company in Disputes on Botulinum Toxin Product
Counseled on Patent Validity of Domestic Biosimilar Company
Counseled on Launching of Educational Software in Foreign Market
Counseled Leading Hotel Franchises on Franchise Compliance Issues
Counseled on Legal Compliance for SNS Softwares
Represented Domestic Major Company in Korea in Patent Infringement Lawsuit on Drug
Represented Global Company in Patent Infringement Lawsuit and Investigation into Unfair Trade Practices on Insulation Material
Counseled on Legal Compliance for License Agreements
Counseled on Disclosure and Use of Trade Secrets by Ex-Employees and Competing Companies
[Others]
Counseled on Quarantine Exemption
Counseled on Responding to Malicious Media Report
Conducted Review of Various Contracts in compliance with Korean Law
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