YulChon said on the 16th that it launched an "integrated TMT center" to help corporations respond quickly and systematically to regulatory risks amid a rapidly changing digital, media, and artificial intelligence (AI) environment.
TMT is a name taken from the English initials of Technology, Media & Telecom. The integrated TMT center's scope of work encompasses broadcasting and telecommunications, platforms, personal information, data, cybersecurity, AI and new technologies, and media. It provides comprehensive legal services, including: ▲ response to broadcasting and telecommunications regulations ▲ advice on licensing and market entry ▲ response to personal information and data regulations ▲ response to domestic and overseas AI and new-technology regulations ▲ TMT-related litigation and dispute response.
A YulChon official said, "We have completed a 'one-stop integrated response system' that can resolve legal uncertainty at once so that we can respond simultaneously to the across-the-board strengthening of domestic and overseas AI and digital regulations, including the Basic Act on Artificial Intelligence and the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act), and to global information security threats."
The integrated TMT center is jointly led by three heads: attorney Son Geum-ju, a former lawmaker of the Democratic Party of Korea (Judicial Research and Training Institute class 30), attorney Han Seung-hyeok (class 33), and attorney Kim Seon-hee (class 36). Son built policy decision-making and advisory experience in AI transition and data centers, broadcasting and telecommunications and platform regulation, personal information protection, and aerospace while serving in the judiciary, the National Assembly, and a presidential body.
Managing partner for operations Son Do-il (class 25), who has provided extensive advice and consulting in information security and personal information protection to financial institutions and domestic and overseas corporations, will also join the center.
Also joining the center are adviser Kim Jeong-won, who served as director general for information and communications policy at the Ministry of Science and ICT and as secretary for digital innovation at the Presidential Secretariat; adviser Jang Bong-jin, who served as head of broadcasting policy planning, head of a broadcasting and telecommunications office, and director of communications market research; and adviser Bae Sang-ho, who served at the Personal Information Protection Commission as head of dispute mediation, head of deliberation processing, and head of Investigation Division 2.
Senior expert member Kang Hye-young, a former Head of Team at the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) Personal Information Protection Headquarters, and senior expert member Lee Chang-ha, who worked for 24 years at the Korea Communications Commission and the Ministry of Science and ICT, will also join the working-level staff.
The integrated TMT center will hold a seminar on July 7 under the theme "The intersection of technological innovation and regulation: TMT response strategies in the AI era."