[Korea Economic Daily] Lee & Ko Attorney Un Ho Kim Named the Master of Comebacks in IP Industry [Selected as Role Model by Fellow Lawyers]

In a special survey conducted by Korea Economic Daily on August 25, 2025, among lawyers from Korea’s seven largest law firms, Attorney Un Ho Kim from Lee & Ko was selected as one of the “Role Model Lawyers” in the intellectual property (IP) field.
According to Korea Economic Daily, “Attorney Kim was behind major IP litigation cases that determined the very fate of Korea’s leading companies—such as the smartphone patent infringement disputes between Samsung Electronics and Apple, and the elastomer patent infringement lawsuits involving LG Chem, Mitsui Chemicals, and Dow Chemical.”
Korea Economic Daily added, “After his appointment as a judge in 1994, he served as a judge at the Intellectual Property Division of the Seoul High Court and as a judicial researcher specializing in IP matters at the Supreme Court of Korea. Since joining Lee & Ko in 2009, he has been instrumental in shaping numerous landmark IP precedents and is widely recognized as one of the nation’s foremost attorneys in the intellectual property field.