Seowon Lee, Attorney and Partner, advises and litigates at MAST Law Firm on real estate redevelopment and reconstruction, and on divorce, inheritance and criminal matters of all kinds.
Real Estate·Redevelopment·Reconstruction
As a specialist in redevelopment and reconstruction registered with the Korean Bar Association, she provides advisory services and conducts litigation on real estate development projects of all kinds, including redevelopment and reconstruction, regional housing associations and private rental housing cooperatives. She also has broad experience across real estate matters such as building construction and management, sales, leasing and eviction.
Divorce·Inheritance
As a specialist in family law registered with the Korean Bar Association, she has broad experience in divorce disputes involving property division, damages for emotional distress, parental rights and custody, and in inheritance disputes involving adjudication on division of inherited property, claims for return of the legal reserve of inheritance and claims for recovery of inheritance. She also handles family law as a whole, including dissolution of de facto marriage, renunciation of inheritance, qualified acceptance, annulment and cancellation of marriage, adult guardianship, affiliation, confirmation of the existence or non-existence of a parent-child relationship, and adoption.
Property·Financial Crimes
She handles property crimes of all kinds, including occupational embezzlement and breach of trust, and fraud (investment and loan), as well as voice phishing, pseudo-deposit taking involving stocks and cryptocurrency (tipping rooms), and violations of the Electronic Financial Transactions Act, the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Prevention of Loss Caused by Telecommunications-based Financial Fraud and Refund for Loss, and the Act on Regulation and Punishment of Criminal Proceeds Concealment.
Sex Crimes
She conducts criminal defense and complaint representation for sexual assault, quasi-rape, indecent acts and prostitution, as well as digital sex crimes such as obscene acts using communication media and illicit filming using cameras.
Traffic Accidents·DUI
She defends criminal cases arising from traffic accidents, including drunk and unlicensed driving accidents, hit-and-run and retaliatory driving, and represents clients in relief procedures against license revocation such as objections, administrative appeals and administrative litigation.
School Violence·Juvenile Crimes
As a member of the School Violence Autonomous Committee and the Teachers' Rights Protection Committee, she conducts criminal defense and complaint representation in school violence and juvenile crime matters.
Drugs·Other
She conducts criminal defense and complaint representation in drug crime matters involving psychotropic drugs, cannabis and the like, as well as defamation, assault and bodily injury.
Background
Attorney Seowon Lee graduated from Korea University with degrees in English literature and law.
She then handled a wide range of litigation and dispute matters at Law Firm Junghyang, representing both companies and individuals. In redevelopment, reconstruction and real estate in particular, she advised and litigated for associations, developers and association members.
In family law matters such as divorce and inheritance, she has also successfully handled numerous complex property division and legal reserve of inheritance cases.
Profile
- +Korea University, Department of English Literature and Department of Law
- +Securities and Finance Training Institute, Seoul Bar Association
- +Rehabilitation and Bankruptcy Training Institute, Korean Bar Association
- +Registered Specialist in Redevelopment and Reconstruction, Korean Bar Association
- +Registered Specialist in Family Law, Korean Bar Association
- +Attorney at Law (South Korea)
- +Current) Attorney and Partner, MAST Law Firm
- +Current) Advisory Member, Postal Finance Development Institute
- +Current) Advisory Member, Population Health and Welfare Association
- +Current) Advisory Counsel, Recording Industry Association of Korea
- +Current) Advisory Counsel, McDonald's Korea
- +Current) Advisory Counsel for Small and Medium Enterprises, Seoul Bar Association
- +Current) Court-appointed Defense Counsel, Supreme Court of Korea
- +Current) Court-appointed Assistant, Seoul Family Court
- +Former) Attorney and Partner, Law Firm Junghyang
- +Former) Advisory Member, Public Development Planning Group, Seoul Metropolitan Government
- +Former) Evaluation Member, Teacher Mutual Aid Program, Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education
- +Former) Member, School Violence Autonomous Committee and Teachers' Rights Protection Committee
- +Former) Civil Conciliator, Seoul Central District Court
- +Former) Acting Prosecutor, Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors' Office
1. Real Estate Advisory
- +Advisory on the Paju Area A housing redevelopment project
- +Advisory on the Icheon K housing redevelopment project
- +Advisory on the Pyeongtaek H District urban development project
- +Advisory on the Gonjiam B officetel development project
- +Advisory on the Seodaemun S officetel development project
- +Advisory on the Cheonan D officetel development project
- +Advisory on the Pangyo T officetel development project
- +Advisory on the Seocho G commercial building reconstruction
- +Advisory on the Jeonju M District knowledge industry center
- +Advisory on the Gwangmyeong Area G regional housing association
- +Advisory on the Cheongju Area S regional housing association
- +Advisory on the Seogwipo D townhouse
- +Advisory to numerous other developers, sales agencies, and advertising agencies
2. Criminal
1) Fraud, Embezzlement, Breach of Trust
- +Complaint representation and defense in voice phishing cases (organization of, membership in and activity in a criminal group; fraud; aiding and abetting fraud; violation of the Electronic Financial Transactions Act; violation of the Telecommunications Business Act; violation of the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Prevention of Loss Caused by Telecommunications-based Financial Fraud and Refund for Loss; violation of the Act on Regulation and Punishment of Criminal Proceeds Concealment; violation of the Act on Real Name Financial Transactions and Confidentiality, etc.)
- +Defense of an association president and the CEO of a business agency for occupational breach of trust regarding service fees (KRW 11 billion; all defendants cleared of all alleged offenses without indictment)
- +Defense of a PM company CEO for occupational breach of trust regarding redevelopment acquisition service fees (KRW 900 million; fully acquitted of all charges)
- +Defense of a PM company CEO for occupational breach of trust regarding land assembly service fees (KRW 1 billion; fully acquitted of all charges)
- +Defense of PM company executives for violation of the Housing Act (all defendants cleared of the alleged offenses without indictment)
- +Complaint representation and defense in financial fraud cases (cryptocurrency, jeonse deposits, investments, loans, pseudo-deposit taking, stock tipping rooms, etc.)
2) Sex Crimes
- +Complaint representation and defense for rape, quasi-rape, indecent act by compulsion, prostitution, illicit filming using cameras, obscene acts using communication media, etc.
3) Traffic Accidents, DUI, etc.
- +Defense for violation of the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Crimes involving hit-and-run causing injury (acquitted of the hit-and-run charge)
- +Defense for DUI and unlicensed driving, and representation in relief procedures against license revocation (objections, administrative appeals, administrative litigation)
4) Tax Offenses
- +Defense for violation of the Punishment of Tax Offenses Act and violation of the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Crimes
5) Drugs
- +Defense for possession, ownership, management, transfer, transport, use, administration, import and export, etc.
6) Other
- +Complaint representation and defense for defamation, assault, bodily injury, school violence, juvenile crimes, etc.
3. Civil
1) Real Estate, Construction
- +Lawsuits against Mugunghwa Asset Trust, Korea Asset Trust and Asia Trust for return of sales proceeds
- +Lawsuits for return of contributions upon cancellation of regional housing association membership agreements
- +Lawsuits for return of commercial unit sales proceeds upon cancellation of sales contracts
- +Ownership transfer registration lawsuits based on the completion of adverse possession
- +Damages lawsuits arising from building defects
- +Lawsuits for return of real estate down payments and preliminary deposits
- +Claims for building eviction and applications for provisional injunctions ordering delivery
- +Lawsuits for return of lease (jeonse) deposits
- +Damages lawsuits arising from refusal to renew a lease agreement
- +Applications for pre-litigation conciliation (building eviction) and for leasehold registration orders
- +Ownership transfer registration lawsuits upon termination of title trust, etc.
2) Divorce, Inheritance, General Family Law
- +Divorce, dissolution of de facto marriage, property division, damages, parental rights, custody, child support
- +Adjudication on division of inherited property, return of the legal reserve of inheritance, contributory portion, recovery of inheritance, confirmation of will invalidity
- +Renunciation of inheritance, qualified acceptance, adult guardianship, affiliation, confirmation of the existence or non-existence of a parent-child relationship
- +Annulment and cancellation of marriage, payment of child support, change of custodian, access prohibition injunctions, etc.
3) Corporate Disputes, Rehabilitation, Bankruptcy
- +Injunctions, attachments and provisional attachments, collection claims and assignment claims in commercial transactions
- +Lawsuits for return of loans, payment for goods, and indemnity
- +Filing of rehabilitation claims, applications for adjudication confirming claims, avoidance claims, avoidance lawsuits
- +Claims for stock transfer registration, lawsuits claiming escrow deposits, etc.
4) Clans (Jongjung)
- +Ownership transfer registration lawsuits based on a clan's completion of adverse possession
- +Ownership transfer registration lawsuits upon a clan's termination of title trust
- +Lawsuits to confirm clan membership status
- +Claims for permission to convene a general assembly and injunctions prohibiting the holding of a general assembly
- +Injunctions suspending the performance of duties by clan officers, etc.
5) Medical, Insurance
- +Damages lawsuits arising from medical malpractice
- +Lawsuits claiming payment of insurance proceeds, etc.