2021 New Year Address by Yong-Seok Ahn, Lee & Ko’s Managing Partner

The new year 2021 has dawned. As we move past a year which has been more difficult than what we had ever experienced, I wish all the families of our legal professionals health and happiness as we enter into a new year.

This year, Lee & Ko will continue to strive to provide the best legal services at home and abroad with flexible changes and innovations suited to the rapidly changing corporate environment. We will be a service-oriented law firm that faithfully provides legal support for the activities of Korean companies by recruiting and nurturing talented individuals with expertise, actively pioneering new fields of service, and supporting legal services for overseas business. Lee & Ko believes there is real value in serving society. We will always be with those that are underprivileged and continue to serve with warm considerate heart.

Just as our society has overcome numerous crises thus far only to use each crisis as a stepping stone to jump forward, we will also overcome this crisis wisely and grow from it. As a leader in the legal service industry, Lee & Ko will focus all of its passion and capabilities to make a new leap forward. Lee & Ko has the 'Lee & Ko spirit' of 'upright management', 'professional spirit' and 'consideration'. As a leading law firm in Korea, we promise to be faithful to the basics of upholding righteousness and to fulfill our role and responsibilities in helping the further development of the legal service industry.

Thank you again for the consistent trust you have given to Lee & Ko over the past 43 years. We wish this year will be a warm year full of health and peace for everyone.

Thank you.