Kun-Hee Cho
Kunhee Cho is a dual-qualified Korean lawyer and English solicitor focused on complex cross-border litigation involving commercial fraud and misconduct.
He advises clients across multiple sectors including finance, energy and construction on the monetization and dilution of high value claims, judgments and arbitral awards. His cases involve the formulation of multi-jurisdictional strategies across common law and civil code systems, which often engage issues of enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards, asset tracing and recovery, interim relief, disclosure and insolvency.
He has represented clients in English and South Korean courts. He is well versed in international commercial arbitration and investor-state arbitration, having conducted proceedings in major arbitral institutions around the world (ICC, LCIA, LMAA, PCA, UNCITRAL, KCAB and JCAA).
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Qualified Year
- 2011
Membership
- Regional Coordinating Committee (Asia Chapter),
- Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF) of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) (2014-present)
- Country Reporter for Korea, Institute for Transnational Arbitration (2013-present)
- Legal Advisory Panel for Outbound Small to Medium Businesses, Ministry of Justice, Republic of Korea (2014-present)
- ICC YAF (2014-2016)
- Country Reporter (2013-2017)
Qualifications
- England & Wales (2018)
- South Korea (2011)
Education
- King’s College London, Construction Law & Dispute Resolution MSc (2018)
- Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea (2011)
- College of Law, Korea University (Republic of Korea) (LL. B., 2005)
1 Contributions by Kun-Hee Cho
PRACTICE NOTES
Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB) international arbitration: practitioners’ overview of the institution and 2016 Rules, including appointment confirmation, joinder and consolidation, emergency arbitrator and expedited procedures
Background
Established in 1966, the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB) unveiled a distinct set of International Rules in 2007, which were updated in 2011 and then again in 2016. The KCAB’s 2016 International Arbitration Rules (2016 International Rules) entered into force on 1 June 2016, mirroring developments in international arbitration practice at the time. Their issuance marked KCAB’s 50th anniversary and coincided with the first major revision of the Korean Arbitration Act since 1999. Passage of the Arbitration Industry Promotion Act in June 2017 signalled continuing governmental backing to advance Korea as a leading centre for international arbitration, including public funding for arbitral institutions such as the KCAB, alongside support for practitioners, research activity and arbitration infrastructure within Korea. KCAB International was launched in April 2018 as a specialised arm within KCAB to administer cross-border cases under the KCAB International Rules. In 2024, the KCAB received 349 new matters, of which 48 were new international cases at KCAB International. This practice note presents an overview of the procedure for international arbitration under the 2016 International Rules. KCAB has prepared a helpful English commentary on the 2016 International Rules, which further concerns the KCAB’s 2016 International Arbitration Rules in English as such...
Arbitration
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