KIM  

Min Kyung

Dr Kim Min Kyung has been sitting as a judge since 2010 in the judiciary of Korea. Her main expertise is in international commercial litigation, including arbitration-related cases (annulment, recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards) as she sat in the Special Division for International Commercial Disputes at the Seoul Central District Court.

Dr Kim has participated in the recent amendment of the Korean Arbitration Act and contributed to enacting new court procedure rules in relation to international arbitration. She is a co-author of the Korean judiciary’s Practice Guide on International Arbitration Issues (2018) published by the Supreme Court of Korea. She is  a member of the Korean judiciary’s delegation to the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts (SIFoCC).

Dr Kim holds a BA, MA and PhD from Seoul National University and an LLM from the University of Cambridge (Queens’ College). She authored Overriding Mandatory Rules in International Commercial Disputes: Korean and Comparative Law (Hart Publishing, forthcoming in 2023) and co-authored the Commentary on the Korean Act on Private International Law (Thompson Reuters, 2023).