Attorneys

Wanjoo Choe Managing Partner

Wanjoo Choe

Email wjchoe@knclaw.co.kr
Present
  • Senior partner of KNC LLC
  • Chairman of the committee for the victims of fraud in real estate lease of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport
Experience
  • Naval judicial officer (1983)
  • Judge of the Eastern Branch of the Seoul District Court (1986)
  • Judge of the Seoul District Civil Court (1989)
  • Judge of the Eastern Branch of the Busan District Court (1991)
  • Judge of the Busan High Court (1994)
  • Judge of the Seoul High Court (1994~1998)
  • Deputy director general of the Court Administration Office (1994~ 1996)
  • Senior judge of the Chuncheon District Court (1998)
  • Professor of the Judicial Research and Training Institute(2000)
  • Senior judge of the Seoul Central District Court (2003)
  • Chief senior judge of the Incheon District Court (2006)
  • Chief senior judge of the Kwangju High Court (2006)
  • Senior judge of the Seoul High Court (2007)
  • Chief senior judge of the Criminal Division of the Seoul Central Court (2009)
  • Chief senior law clerk of the Constitutional Court (2010)
  • Senior judge of the Seoul High Court (2011)
  • President of the Ulsan District Court(2012)
  • President of the Seoul Administrative Court (2014)
  • Senior judge of the Seoul High Court (2015)
  • President of the Seoul High Court (2017)
  • Elder judge of the Paju City Court of the Goyang Branch of the Uijeongbu District Court (2019)
Education
  • Graduated from the department of law of Seoul National University (1981)
  • Universität Göttingen(1991, Gastwissenschftler)
  • Member of Seoul and Korean Bars
Language
  • Korean, German and English
Area
  • Civil litigation (petition and appeal, medical malpractice, environment, inheritance, and family register)
  • Criminal litigation (arrest warrant, and corruption)
  • Administrative litigation (tax, license and permission)
Research
  • ‘Annotated Criminal Procedure Act (III)’ , 5th Edition [Fist-instant trial proceeding, Judicial Administration Society (2017)]
  • ‘Annotated Criminal Procedure Act (III)’ , 5th Edition [Appeal to the Supreme Court and retrial proceeding, Judicial Administration Society (2017)]
  • ‘Comparative legal approach of the judicial provisions of the Constitutional Law: the cases in Germany’ [Judicial reform and global judicial reform, Korean Judicial Administration Society (2006)]
  • ‘Reconstruction of the constitutional adjudication system: focusing on the plan for prevention of judicial split’ [Legal Profession, Vol. 55 No.3 Korean Lawyers Association (2006) ]
  • ‘Decision with partial impact, is it optional or required?’ [Law Times No.3111, Law times (2002)]
  • ‘ Formation and development of the German constitutional adjudication system: focusing on the position and role of the Federal Constitutional Court of German’ [Trial Materials, Vol. 92, Court Library (2001)]
  • ‘Adjudication on a Constitutional Complaint’ [Trial Materials, Vol. 92, Court Library (2001)]
  • ‘Decision of Unconstitutionality’ [Trial Materials, Vol. 92, Court Library (2001)]
  • ‘Reorganization procedure and tax issues’ [All issues in bankruptcy law, Judicial Research and Training Institute (1998)]
  • ‘Meaning of ‘Facilities for Religion’ in Article 6(1) 11-2 of the Enforcement Regulation of City Park’ [Research on Administrative Litigation Practices, Seoul High Court (1998)]
  • ‘A Study of the standing issue of lower court disposition in constitutional complaint cases’ [Constitutional Issues and Trial (Book one), Judicial Research and Training Institute (1996)]
  • ‘Comparison of constitutional complaint system in various countries: focusing on the standing issue of lower court decisions in constitutional complaint cases’ [Constitutional Issues and Trial (Book one), Judicial Research and Training Institute (1996)]
  • ‘Legal aid system in Germany’ [Trial Materials, Vol. 66, National Court Administration (2001)]