On January 14, 2025, the Law Times featured Lee & Ko’s heartwarming participation in bread making program at the Love Bread Sharing Center. In this event, nearly 30 employees and their family members came together to knead and bake bread for around three hours starting at 1:30 p.m. and delivered these freshly baked loaves to undernourished neighbors in partnership with the Korean Red Cross. Since 2019, Lee & Ko’s Pro Bono Committee has remained committed to this annual volunteer activity at the Love Bread Sharing Center with a spirit of “fostering an uplifting culture of social engagement through volunteer programs that are easy to join and open to everyone.”

Lee & Ko’s Pro Bono Committee (Chairman: Managing Partner Won Seok Ko) arranged a volunteer activity at the Love Bread Sharing Center on January 11, 2025.

Nearly 30 employees and their family members joined hands for this heartfelt community initiative at the Seongdong Love Bread Sharing Center of the Korean Red Cross Seoul Branch, which lasted for around three hours from 1:30 p.m. The volunteers baked and sealed pea bean paste bread and corn mayo bread and then delivered these packages to undernourished neighbors in partnership with the Korean Red Cross. 

Partner Seok Pyo Hong (36th class of the Judicial Research and Training Institute), the auditor of the Committee, commented, “Our employees and their families came together and spent a meaningful time participating in every step, from kneading to packaging. I hope our bread, humble but made with sincere heart, will offer a slice of support to undernourished neighbors.”

Since 2019, Lee & Ko’s Pro Bono Committee has remained committed to this annual volunteer event at the Love Bread Sharing Center with a spirit of “fostering an uplifting culture of social engagement through volunteer programs that are easy to join and open to everyone.”
 

On December 5, 2024, Korea Herald Business highlighted the wholehearted participation of Lee & Ko in this year’s Briquettes of Love Campaign. Lee & Ko’s Public Service Committee coordinated volunteer efforts to deliver coal briquettes to those most vulnerable in Guryong Village, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, to provide much-needed warmth in the winter months and further donated 5,000 coal briquettes to support the “Briquettes Sharing Movement for a Warm Korean Peninsula.” The Committee has been an active participant in this campaign since 2011, contributing a total of 69,230 briquettes over the past 14 years.

On November 30, 2024, Lee & Ko’s Public Service Committee (Chairman: Managing Partner Ko Won Seok) coordinated a volunteer initiative to deliver coal briquettes to vulnerable residents in Guryong Village, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, to extend warmth during the winter season. 

As part of the campaign, the Committee donated 5,000 coal briquettes to support the “Briquettes Sharing Movement for a Warm Korean Peninsula,” 2,000 of which were directly delivered to 10 households by 30 Lee & Ko members and their families.

Since joining this meaningful campaign in 2011, Lee & Ko has donated a total of 69,230 briquettes over the past 14 years.

Chairman and Managing Partner Ko Won Seok expressed his gratitude, "I am immensely proud that Lee & Ko members gather together each year to provide small yet heartfelt support to our neighbors. I wish to emphasize that our Public Service Committee will continue to spread the spirit of sharing to those in need, reaching every corner of our community for years to come.”

On November 17, 2024, the Korea Economic Daily reported on the refugee litigation represented by Lee & Ko’s Pro Bono Committee. The Korea Economic Daily introduced that “large law firms are increasingly entering the legal market regarding immigration and nationality, which was once considered the area of individual practitioners”, and added that “Lee & Ko provides legal pro bono support by signing an MOU with NANCEN, a non-profit organization and conducting more than three refugee litigations per year”. Further, “Lee & Ko has won three administrative cases consecutively by actively justifying the purpose of the refugee status screening referral system in cases that led to litigation due to the failure to refer to the refugee status screening during the immigration process”.