Kyu Hong Lee

Kyu Hong Lee is the Chief Researcher and Presiding Judge at the Judicial Policy Research Institute (JPRI). He holds a double LL.B. in Economics and Law, as well as a Ph.D. in Law from Yonsei University. He also earned a Master of Engineering degree from KAIST and was a visiting scholar at the Franklin Pierce Law Center (University of New Hampshire) in the United States from 2005 to 2006.

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Since his appointment as a judge in 1995, Lee has served in various judicial roles, including positions at the Seoul High Court’s Intellectual Property division, as a constitutional officer dispatched to the Constitutional Court of Korea, and as a presiding judge at the Patent Court and Seoul High Court’s criminal division. Additionally, he has taught civil law and intellectual property law at the Judicial Research and Training Institute. He is the author of Korean Business Law (IP Part) (Carolina Academic, 2009) and co-author of Copyright and Infringement (2016, Korea).