Suyeon Jung has assisted Tae Il Kwon in most of the prominent cases at Kwon & Co. and has received good outcomes since she started working with Tae Il Kwon from 2014.

Having lived in the United States for 4 years, she has excellent command of English which is very helpful in providing legal opinions to foreign clients of Kwon & Co. which comprises about 80% of Kwon & Co.’s work.

Ms Jung has been especially accumulating huge volume of experience in various issues on the vessel crew/stevedores, especially regarding work related and non-work related disease concerning Korean Seafarers’ Act. She has also dealt with numerous vessel arrest cases in Korea; based on her professional and prompt response to the cases, she has never failed in arresting or releasing the vessels so far since her years in Kwon & Moon.

She has also worked with many Hanjin Shipping bankruptcy cases representing Hanjin Shipping’s creditors; by assisting Tae Il Kwon, Kwon & Co. has received very good outcomes in retrieving foundation claims regarding time-charterparties.

She has successfully finished the LL.M course specializing in International Shipping at Queen Mary University of London with merits in the UK, and became partner of 

Kwon & Co. from January of 2023.

• Membership

  • Korean Bar Association
  • Seoul Bar Association
  • Registered Counsel for Korean Maritime Safety Tribunal
  • Certified Expert in Maritime Law(Korean Bar Association)
  • Committee member of the Distant Water Fisheries Development Committee under the Ministry of Ocean and Fisheries of Korea

• Experience

  2017 –	Law Offices Kwon & Co.
  2014 – 2016	Law Offices Kwon & Moon

• Education

  2014	Passed the Bar Exam, Korea
  2014	Yonsei University Law School
  2009	Seoul National University (B.A. in International Relations, Minor in Law)
  2022	Queen Mary University of London(LL.M in International Shipping) with merit