Former Director General Prosecutor Kim Yong-sik (Judicial Research and Training Institute class 34), who served as head of the Anti-Corruption Investigation Division 3 at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office and as chief of the Fair Trade Investigation Division, recently opened a law practice as an attorney.
According to legal sources on the 28th, former Director General Prosecutor Kim recently opened a law office. Together with attorney Gu Sang-yeop (Judicial Research and Training Institute class 30), who served as director-general for legal affairs at the Ministry of Justice and head of the Anti-Corruption Investigation Division 1, he set up an office in Bangbae-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul.
Former Director General Prosecutor Kim is from Andong, North Gyeongsang, and graduated from Andong High School and the Department of Economics at Seoul National University. After beginning his prosecutorial career at the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office in 2005, he served at the Jecheon Branch of the Cheongju District Prosecutors' Office, the Western Branch of the Daegu District Prosecutors' Office, and the Incheon District Prosecutors' Office, among others.
He was then seconded in 2012 to the Central Investigation Department of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office (Savings Bank Corruption Joint Investigation Team) and in 2013 to the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office Securities Crime Joint Investigation Team. After serving with the Supreme Prosecutors' Office Corruption Crime Special Investigation Team in 2016 and the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office Kangwon Land hiring scandal investigation team in 2018, he was seconded in 2022 to the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office Financial and Securities Crime Joint Investigation Team. He then served as head of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office Anti-Corruption Investigation Division 3 and chief of the Fair Trade Investigation Division before leaving the prosecution in January.
While at the prosecution in 2024, former Director General Prosecutor Kim handled the Korea Land & Housing Corporation (LH) bid-rigging and bribery case, indicting 68 people including executives and employees of supervision firms. Last year, through a joint investigation with the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, 12 individuals and companies connected to a bid-rigging case for U.S. Forces Korea facilities were brought to trial.
Former Director General Prosecutor Kim said, "After completing 21 years as a prosecutor, I have begun work as an attorney," and added, "Based on the experience and expertise accumulated in the fields of fair trade, financial and securities, corporations, and anti-corruption, I will provide the best legal services."