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Speaker / Panelists

Seongsuk Shin, Head of Ethics and Business Integrity (Country Compliance Officer), Sanofi Korea

Seongsuk has more than 17 years of experience working in Legal and Compliance in mainly the IT and pharmaceutical industries. She majored in law in Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea) and completed the master’s course of international public law in Seoul National University. She holds the MBA from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and in addition received the certification from the Healthcare Compliance Program in INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France) in 2013. 

As a compliance expert, her experience spans various fields such as anti-bribery compliance strategies and programs establishment and roll-out, rules and process integration, external stakeholders review and DD, managing external investigations, audit, testing and review of business activities/strategies, internal investigations and so forth. 

Seongsuk has been intimately involved in the progress of the compliance culture of the Korean pharmaceutical industry through her activities in the Korea Research-based Pharmaceutical Industry Association for many years.  

YooRee Kim, General Counsel, Legal & Compliance Officer, Teva-Handok Pharmaceutical Co

YooRee Kim is the General Counsel and Legal & Compliance Officer for Teva-Handok Pharmaceutical Co. She graduated Seoul National University with a Bachelor of law and completed the master degree in commercial law (oversees investment, multinational corporation and international arbitration). She passed the Korean Bar exam and did Judicial Apprenticeship in Judicial Research Training Institute. 

Before joining Teva-Handok, she worked in a Korean Pharmaceutical company (Daewoong Pharm Co.) that she has specialty in healthcare and life science industry including pharmaceutical. Also she worked in an IT company, NCSOFT one of the biggest IT company in Korea. Working as an in-house counsel she has many experiences especially in compliance, M&A, data privacy and so on. Recently handled DPA case and responded to governmental investigations, she has many experience in risk managing for the company. 

Daniel S. Lee, Lawyer, Kobre & Kim

With significant experience as a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutor, Daniel Lee focuses his practice on representing multinational companies in U.S. regulatory investigations and enforcement actions, with particular experience in matters involving Korea. Mr. Lee regularly investigates fraud allegations, including those related to financial fraud, government contracts fraud, money laundering and public corruption.

Before joining Kobre & Kim, Mr. Lee was a DOJ prosecutor (as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Hawaii). While serving in that capacity, Mr. Lee focused on white-collar criminal cases involving investment fraud, health care fraud, defense contractor fraud, and multijurisdictional asset forfeiture and tracing. Earlier in his career, he was a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Defense, litigating major crimes for the Pacific region, including Korea, Japan, Hawaii and Guam. 

David Soonyoub Kwon, Compliance Officer, Ericsson

David Soonyoub Kwon is a Compliance Officer at Ericsson responsible for North East Asia (China, Hong Kong & Macau, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea). For this role, his responsibility is to assist and support stakeholders in handling all compliance matters in the region, which include Anti-Corruption, Anti-Trust and Trade Compliance. 

Before taking this role, he was a Legal Director responsible for several Ericsson subsidiaries in Korea including Ericsson-LG, a joint venture company between Ericsson and LG Electronics. Before joining Ericsson Group, he worked for several multinational companies as well as a renowned local company. David received LL.B. and LL.M. from Kyounghee Univ. School of Law in Seoul, Korea and also obtained LL.M. from Northwestern Univ. School of Law in Chicago, USA.He is an attorney at law and admitted to the DC Bar in USA

David Yongdae Lee, Head of Anti-Bribery & Corruption ASP, Financial Crime Compliance, Asia Pacific, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited

David Yongdae Lee is the Regional Head of Anti-Bribery & Corruption at HSBC, where he has been in the role since March of 2017. Prior to that, he was at Bank of America Merrill Lynch for approximately 10 years, where he was the AB&C lead for their global corporate political activities, including government relations and public policy lobbying, and the public sector banking and municipal finance business. Before that, he was an attorney in private practice, representing governmental contractors in the finance and aerospace industries. David received his undergraduate degree from Yale University and his juris doctorate from Columbia Law School. He is originally from Busan.

Inngeun Han, General Counsel, Daewoo Information

Inngeun has worked as an in-house counsel or as a compliance officer in the Hynix, IBM, BearingPoint, Accenture, and Daewoo Information System more than twenty five years.  He earned a Master of Law degree in International Business Law at the University of Alabama School of Law and passed the NY bar exam and also passed the US CPA exam of Maine USA. As a NY lawyer and USCPA having Korean law degree and US law degree, he has wide experiences in corporate legal affairs and compliance works. In particular, he has had a very important experience with compliance at current workplace. Before he joined the current company, the company was intervening in unfair business on overseas projects sponsored by the World Bank (WB) and was receiving sanction from WB. In order to get out of this sanction, he did a lot of work. He has also introduced ISO 37001 and upgraded all the company's processes and policies to the world class level. After such an effort, the company was able to get away from WB sanction successfully.

Dae Young Kim, Head of Compliance South Korea, BNP Paribas Bank

Mr Dae Young KIM is currently the Head of Compliance for South Korea in BNP Paribas Bank, who has joined the bank from Jan 2006. He has been certified as an IFSCO (International Financial Sanctions Compliance Officer) by BNP Paribas Bank and covers internal control and compliance related topics including Professional Ethics, Market Integrity, Financial Security and Protection of Interests of Clients. 

He graduated from Seoul National University majoring in Economics in 1988 and got both Master of Economics and Certificate for Completion of Graduate Study Program in Statistics from Duke University in 1998. He started his career from Bank of Korea in Jan 1988 until Apr 2000 primarily in the Monetary Policy Department and Office of Monetary Policy Committee and had also worked for Corporate Planning Team in Samsung Life Insurance and Daiwa Securities in Korea as Head of Compliance prior to joining BNP Paribas Bank. 

As a leading senior Compliance Officer in Korea, he actively participates in industry dialogue and took part as a speaker in the Fair Player Club Seminar for Better Regulatory Compliance co-hosted by US Embassy Seoul and Global Compact Network Korea on Oct 12, 2017. 

YoungDo Kim, Legal & Compliance Director, Medtronic Korea

YoungDo Kim is the Legal & Compliance Director for Medtronic Korea. He has more than 20 years of experience working in Legal & Compliance at various renowned multinational and domestic companies including medical device and pharmaceutical industries. He graduated from Korea University College of Law with LL.B. degree. He also received LL.M. degree at New York University School of Law and passed the New York Bar exam. He has been actively involved in the Ethics Committee of healthcare industry associations for several years. He is a member of Korea Commercial Arbitration Board and a co-chair of the Healthcare Committee of In-House Counsel Forum. 

Liz (Kyo-Hwa) Chung, Director, Corporate, External and Legal Affairs, Microsoft Korea

Liz (Kyo-Hwa) Chung leads Corporate, External and Legal Affairs (CELA) at Microsoft Korea, providing legal, compliance and government affairs support to Microsoft’s businesses in Korea. Before joining Microsoft Korea, Liz worked as a partner at Kim & Chang law firm in Seoul, specializing in the areas of international arbitration, cross-border litigation, government investigations, corporate compliance and crisis management, among others. Prior to joining Kim & Chang in 2003, Liz served as a judge in the Seoul Administrative Court and the Seoul Central District Court for 4 years. Liz earned her LL.B degree at Korea University, College of Law and LL.M degree at Harvard Law School. She is licensed to practice in Korea and the New York State. 

Sophie Park, Risk Proposition Specialist, Refinitiv

Sophie is Risk Proposition Specialist for South Korea at Refinitiv. Her remit is to represent the Risk Business in South Korea with a primary responsibility for generating revenues in the region. She joined Thomson Reuters in 2017 as Account Manager for the Financial & Risk sector where she served global banks and SMB corporations. Prior to that, she served and managed portfolios of individual investors from Korea and South East Asia in Crédit Industriel et Commercial private bank in Singapore in sales & relationship management and compliance team. 

Sophie holds Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Management and maintains adoration for travel. Also, Sophie is a member of Risky Women and passionate about social equality, gender balance and diversity.