법학전문대학원 원장·교수
Dean·Professor, Korea University School of Law
(https://lawschool.korea.ac.kr)
ICR센터 소장
Director, ICR Law Center (www.icr.re.kr)
한-중 MRLC 책임운영위원
Secretary Commissioner, Korea-China MRLC (www.mrlclaw.org)
한국유통법학회 회장
신법학관 340호
Tel: +82-2-3290-2879
E-mail: hwang_lee@korea.ac.kr
Columbia Law School(New York), J.D./LL.M., 2003
Executive Editor: The Columbia Journal of Asian Law
Hwang LEE is the Dean of the Korea University School of Law currently and has been a professor at the School since 2008. His academic interest covers competition laws, digital platforms, intellectual property rights, telecommunication laws, consumer protection, and economic regulations.
Prior to joining Korea University, Professor LEE served the Korea Fair Trade Commission for twelve years where played a leading role in prosecuting precedent-setting competition law cases including the Microsoft tying arrangement case. He concluded the service at the competition law authority with the final position of the Head of Emerging Competition Issues Team. Subsequently, he was appointed to a Research Counsel for the Justices of the Supreme Court of Korea (2006). In this role Professor LEE drafted final judgments for an extensive array of competition and administrative law cases, including the landmark POSCO Judgment (2007) that has set the liability standard in effects-based approach with regard to abuse of dominance. He has also worked as a consultant at the Division of Competition Law and Policy of OECD in Paris (1998) and clerked at the Northeast Regional Office of the Federal Trade Commission in New York (2002-2003).
In September 2010, Professor LEE established the Innovation, Competition & Regulation Law Center (“ICR Law Center”) at Korea University, a research institution that specializes in interdisciplinary research of intellectual property rights, competition laws, telecommunication laws, and economic regulations. In May 2014, he also founded the Korea-China Market & Regulation Law Center (“MRLC”) in collaboration with the Economic Law Research Center of Renmin University in China Law School to develop Asian competition law and IPR studies. In 2018, he chaired the organization & procedure subgroup of the special committee on competition law overall amendment by the request of the KFTC. The subgroup produced ten items of recommendations for the KFTC to improve procedural fairness that were reflected in the next amendment of the Korean competition law. He extended his work to innovation and economic policy beyond competition policy and has chaired the Innovation Economy Division of the National Economic Advisory Council that advised the President of Korea during 2021~2024.
Professor LEE has been active and played a leading role in the Korean academic and practical society of competition laws. He has been the President of the Korea Competition Law Association during 2019~2021 and is the current President of the Korean Distribution Law Association since 2024. As an international expert of competition laws and IPR regulations, Professor LEE often teaches at foreign schools, including Washington University in St. Louis Law School and Renmin University of China School of Law. He is also a frequent speaker and lecturer at diverse international conferences, including events hosted by the American Bar Association, Global Competition Review, and Asian Competition Association. He has been a member of the Dominance Divergence T/F within the Section of Antitrust Law at the ABA and chaired many ABA conferences.
Professor LEE earned his LL.B. from Korea University and J.D. & LL.M. from Columbia Law School in New York where he was an Executive Editor of the Columbia Journal of Asian Law. He is licensed to practice laws in the State of New York (U.S.) and has advised various Korean and multinational firms.
Professor LEE is the author of many articles and books and made presentations at numerous international conferences. Recent works published in English include: the term of "foreclosure" at the Global Dictionary of Competition Law (Concurrences, 2024); Differences and Alignment: Final Report of the Task Force on International Divergence of Dominance Standards (ABA Antitrust Law Section, 2019, co-authored with T/F members); China-Korea IP & Competition Law Annual Report 2014 through 2017 (co-edited with Prof. MENG Yanbei at Renmin University in China, available at Amazon.com); Competition Law and Intellectual Property in Korea, in The Cambridge Handbook of Antitrust, Intellectual Property, and High Tech (Roger D. Blair & Daniel Sokol ed., Cambridge University Press, 2014); Pay-for-delay: the Korean experience, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice Vol. 5, Issue 4, 2014; Hwang Lee & Byung Geon Lee, Korea, in The International Handbook on Private Enforcement of Competition Law (Albert A. Foer & Jonathan W. Cuneo ed., Edward Elgar, 2011)
He has been also recognized as one of 25 most influential antitrust scholars around the world at the inaugural Antitrust Academics 2022 announced by the Global Competition Review. He was awarded the National Order of Service Merit in Red Stripes in 2020 for the contribution to promoting competition policy and law enforcement.
현재(2023~) 고려대학교 법학전문대학원/법무대학원 원장
현재(2008~) 고려대학교 법학전문대학원(법과대학) 교수 (경제법)
현재(2012~) 고려대학교 법무대학원 공정거래법학과 주임교수
현재(2010~) 고려대학교 혁신.경쟁.규제법센터(ICR센터) 소장(부소장, 사무국장)
현재(2013~) 한-중 시장.규제법 센터(MRLC) 책임운영위원
2019~2021 고려대학교 자유전공학부 학부장
2012~2014 고려대학교 자유전공학부 '공공거버넌스와 리더쉽 융합전공' 주임교수
ㅇ Differences and Alignment: Final Report of the Task Force on International Divergence of Dominance Standards of the ABA Antitrust Law Section, Co-authored with T/F members, American Bar Association(2019.9)
* All editions are available at Amazon.com
ㅇ Term of "Foreclusure", 「The Global Dictionary of Competition Law」, Concurrences(2024)
ㅇ Competition Law and Intellectual Property in Korea, 「The Cambridge Handbook of Antitrust, Intellectual Property, and High Tech」 (Blair & Sokol eds. 2017)
ㅇ Chapter of “Korea", 「The International Handbook on Private Enforcement of Competition Law」, Co-authored with Byung Geon Lee, Edward Elgar Publishing(2010.11)
ㅇ Korea: Pouring Old Wine into New Wineskins - Competition Law as Fully Revised in 2020, Concurrences(2025.3)
ㅇ Antitrust Fines in the Era of Globalization, The 15th Global Forum on Competition, OECD, Paris, France(2016.12)
ㅇ 온라인주석서 방문판매법(집필대표), 톰슨로이터코리아(2023)
ㅇ 「우리 시대의 영웅을 찾아서」(공저), 테오리아(2022)
ㅇ “제3장 경쟁정책과 소비자법”(공저), 「소비자법」, 박영사(2013)
ㅇ 주요 국가들의 온라인 플랫폼 등 빅테크 대상 규제동향과 시사점, 통상법률 통권 제165호(2024. 11), 법무부
ㅇ 공공선택론의 시각에서 본 한국의 기업결합정책- 대한항공·아시아나항공 사례(공저), 경영법률 제34권 제3호(2024.4), 한국경영법률학회
ㅇ 완전자회사 부당지원행위와 경제적 동일체 - 대법원 SPP조선 판결을 참고하여, 서울대학교 법학 제62권 제3호(2021.9), 서울대학교 법학연구소
ㅇ 공정거래법상 경제력집중 억제시책과 일반집중의 문제, 법학연구 제31권 제1호(2021.3), 연세대학교 법학연구원
ㅇ 한국사회에서 영웅의 왜곡과 (재)소환(공저), 글로벌문화콘텐츠 제45호(2020.12), 글로벌문화콘텐츠학회
ㅇ 코로나19 출구전략과 경쟁정책, 경쟁저널 제203호(2020.5), 공정경쟁연합회
ㅇ 디자인 변경에 대한 경쟁법 규제와 구글쇼핑 사건, 선진상사법률연구 제90호(2020.4), 법무부
ㅇ 영웅적 행동의 관점에서 간호의 사회적 인식 제고와 제언(공저), 한국의료윤리학회지 제23권제1호(2020.3), 한국의료윤리학회
ㅇ 검색 중립성과 경쟁법 집행원리(공저), 경쟁법연구 제40권(2019.11), 한국경쟁법학회
ㅇ하도급관계에서 비정규직 문제— 하도급법상 제재와 인센티브 활용을 통한 해법의 모색 —, 경영법률 제28권 제3호(2018.4), 한국경영법률학회
ㅇ 공정거래법상 ‘특수관계인에 대한 부당한 이익 제공행위’에서 ‘부당한 이익’의 해석론, 법학논문집 제41집(2017.8), 중앙대학교 법학연구원
ARTICLES
South Korea: Pouring Old Wine into New Wineskins - Competition Law as Fully Revised in 2020, Concurrences(2025.3)
Antitrust Fines in the Era of Globalization, The 15th Global Forum on Competition, OECD, Paris, France(2016.12)
Overview of Current Antitrust Enforcement in Korea (2014)
Pay-for-delay: the Korean experience, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice (2014)
Balancing of Competitive Effects of Abuse of Dominance in Asian Countries (2010) (working paper)
Influencing a Global Agenda: Implications of the Modernization of European Competition Law for the WTO, Erasmus Law and Economics Review (2004), available at www.eler.org
Trends in Big-Tech Regulation Across Major Countries and their Implications, International Trade Law Vol. 165 (2024)
Why Korea's Merger Control Occasionally Fails: A Public Choice Analysis of Korean Air/Asiana Airlines, Business Administration and Law (2024)
The Subsidizing Transaction by a Mother Company for a Wholly Owned Subsidiary in the Competition Law and a Single Economic Entity - In the Reference of the SPP Shipbuilding Case by the Supreme Court , Seoul Law Journal (2021)
Issues of General Concentration and Countermeasures over Excessive Economic Concentration in Korea's Competition Law, Yonsei Law Review (2021)
The Distortion and (Re)summon of Heroes in Korea, Global Cultural Contents (Corresponding Author, 2020)
Exit Strategy from Corona19 Crisis and Competition Policy, Journal of Competition (2020)
Antitrust Enforcement Against Design Changes and the Google Shopping Case, Advanced Commercial Law Review (2020)
Raising the Social Perception of Nursing and Proposing Its Methods in the Perspective of Heroism, Korean Journal of Medical Ethics (Corresponding Author, 2020)
Search Neutrality as a Guiding Principle for Competition Law and/or Government Regulation, Journal of Korean Competition Law (Corresponding Author, 2019)
Towards the Social Propagation of Heroism, Korean Journal of Law & Society (2019)
Mission of Fair Trade Laws and the Direction for Enforcement System, Journal of Competition (2019)
Problems of Contingent Jobs in Subcontract – Seeking Solutions By Combination of Sanctions and Incentives in Subcontract Act, Journal of Business Administration & Law (2018)
The Interpretation of the Requirement of “Inappropriate Benefit” in the Prohibition of Providing Inappropriate Benefit to Persons with Special Interests under the Korean Competition Law, Chung-Ang Journal of Legal Studies (2017)
Perspectives on the Joint Filing of Leniency Application on Cartel, Juris (2017)
Concept and Criteria of ‘Superior Bargaining Position’ in Korean Competition Laws, Journal of Legislation Research (2016)
Business Model of the Korea Fair Trade Commission and Disruptive Innovation, Journal of Competition (2016)
Meaning of Agreement and Burdeon of Proof in Cases of Information Exchange among Competitors, Journal of Competition (2016)
Need for Economic Analysis in Line with Common Sense and Intuition, Korea Law Review (Corresponding Author, 2016)
The Problem and Task of The Distribution Practices Fair Trade Act, Pusan National University Law Review (Corresponding Author, 2016)
The Role of the Sub-Contract Law for Parallel Development between Large-Small Enterprises and Structural Approaches - With a Reference from the Experience of Japan, Pusan Boor to Commemorate the Retirement of Prof. Oh-Seoung Kwon (2015)
Legal Characteristics of the Korea Fair Trade Commission and Case Handling Procedures, Korea Law Review (Co-author, 2014)
Recent Amendmenf and Future Development of Sub-Contract Law: With a Focus on Pricing Practices, Journal of Competition (2014)
US Actavis Decision about Reverse Payment and Its Implications, Supreme Court Case Law Study (2014)
Proposal to Introduce Vertical Categorization of Government Regulations - with Emphasis on Competition Laws and Consumer Protection Laws, Anam Law Review (2014)
IPR Licensing and Breach of Competition Laws, Journal of Competition (2014)
Development of 'Unreasonableness' Criteria in the Supreme Court Decisions about Abuse of Dominance after the POSCO Decision, Studies on Public Administration Cases (2012)
A Study on Malaysian Competition Law, Journal of Korean Competition Law (Corresponding Author, 2012)
Requirements for Regulation by Competition Laws over Hold-up by Breach of FRAND Commitment, Justice (2012)
Regulation by Competition Laws over Hold-up by Failure to Disclose Essential Patent Rights in Standard-setting Process, Journal of Industrial Property (2011)
A Study on Competition Law of India: Current Development and Enforcement, Journal of Korean Competition Law (Corresponding Author, 2011)
Regulatory Structure of Korean Competition Law over Unilateral Conducts (II); - The Nature and Criteria of Illegality of Refusal to Deal as a kind of Unfair Trade Practices, Economic Law Journal (2010)
Feasibility of the Program Access Rule Introduction into the Pay-TV Market, Anam Law Review (2010)
Needs and Devices to Protect Statements of Cartel Leniency Applicants from U.S. Discovery (II), Journal of Korean Competition Law (First Author) (2010)
Needs and Devices to Protect Statements of Cartel Leniency Applicants from U.S. Discovery, Journal of Korean Competition Law (First Author) (2009)
Succession of Liability for Administrative Surcharges in Corporate Split, Korea Law Review (2009)
Scope and Limits of Application of Competition Law to Insurance Business: With a Focus on Supreme Court Decision 2004Du8323, Journal of Korean Competition Law (2008)
Prospect of the Amendments of Cartel Regulation of the Fair Trade Act; Focused on the Presumption of Agreement by Law, Journal of Korean Competition Law (2007)
Characteristics and Binding Effects of Option CP in Undue Internal Transactions, Commentary on Decisions of the Supreme Court of Korea, vol. 2006 Winter (2007)
Inference of Agreements in Cartels and Justification by Statutes, Commentary on Decisions of the Supreme Court of Korea, vol. 2006 Winter (2007)
Cartel by Business Association and Its Implementation, Commentary on Decisions of the Supreme Court of Korea, vol. 2006 Winter (2007)
Thoughts about Tying Arrangement as a Kind of Unfair Trade Practices; Considered by Supreme Court Decision 2004Du3014, Journal of Korean Competition Law (2008)
Requirements for Antitrust Liability in Hardcore Cartels including Price-fixing, Journal of Competition, vol. 117 (2005)
Korea Fair Trade Commission Case Analysis: Price-fixing of Steel Enforcements, Journal of Competition, vol. 101 (2004)
Korea Fair Trade Commission Case Analysis: Merger between Yongsan Chemical. & Korea P.T.G., Journal of Competition, vol. Dec. 2003 (2003)
Legislation Purpose of the Institutional Cartel Repeals Act and Future Policy Direction: Focusing on the Insurance Industry, Property Insurance (1999)
BOOKS
Differences and Alignment: Final Report of the Task Force on International Divergence of Dominance Standards of the ABA Antitrust Law Section, Co-authored with T/F members, American Bar Association (2019)
China-Korea IP & Competition Law Annual Report 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 (Co-Chief Editor with Yanbei Meng at the Renmin University in China)
* All editions are available for sale at Amazon.com
Korea’s Developmental Experiences in Operating Competition policies for Lasting Economic Development, 2013 Modularization of Korea’s Development Experience, Ministry of Strategy and Finance & Korea Development Institute (2014)
A Search for Heros in Contemporary Times, Co-authored, Theoria Publication (2022)
BOOK CHAPTERS
Competition Law and Intellectual Property in Korea, in 「Cambridge Handbook of Antitrust, Intellectual Property, and High Tech」 (Blair & Sokol eds. 2017)
Korea, in 「International Handbook on Private Enforcement of Competition Law」, Ch. 34 (Albert A. Foer & Jonathan W. Cuneo ed., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010), Co-authored with Byung Geon Lee)
Annotation on the Act on Door-to-Door Sales, Thompson Reuters Korea (Corresponding Author, 2023)
Competition Policy and Consumer Law, in Consumer Law, Ch. 3 (2013)
Globalization and Developments of Korean Competition Laws,
in Korean Competition Policy, Ch. 11 (2011)
Standard Patent and hold-up, in Global IP Trend (2011)
Case reviews about Refusal to Deal by POSCO & Refusal to Deal by Hyundai Oil Bank, in Hundred Big Competition Law Cases (2011)
Case reviews about Refusal to Deal by POSCO & Tying Arrangements by Microsoft, in Thirty Big Cases at the Korea Fair Trade Commission (2011)
MAJOR PRESENTATIONS AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
Keynote Speaker, The Change of Economic Landscape around the World and Digital Platform Regulation, The Third Global Forum on the Rule of Law - The International Forum on The Future Rulf of Law and Digital Law, Renmin University of China, Beijing China (2022)
Panelist, Overview of Competition Law Chaleeges in the Digital Economy, 1st EU-Korea Competition Week, Korea Fair Trade Commission & European Commission Directorate-General for Competition, Seoul Korea (2019)
Co-Chair & Moderator, The Role of Innovation and Technology in Competition Law and Enforcement in East Asia, The New Engine of Growth in Asia Conference: Investment and Technology, Section of International Law, American Bar Association, Seoul Korea (2018)
Chair & Moderator, Enforcement and their Efficiency Algorithms and Competition Enforcement, The 10th Seoul International Competition Forum, Korea Fair Trade Commission, Seoul Korea (2016)
Co-Chair & Moderator, Divergence in Dominance: Exploitative Abuses, Global Seminar Series: Singapore, Section of Antitrust Law, American Bar Association, Singapore (2018)
Panelist, Proceedings of The Dominance Divergence Task Force, 66th Antitrust Law Spring Meeting, Section of Antitrust Law, American Bar Association, Washington DC. USA (2018)
Asian Culture and Development of Market Economy, International Conference on Culture, the Rule of Law & Social Development, Renmin University of China, Beijing China (2017)
How to Enforce the Fairness Doctrine in Asian Countries? - Unfair Methods of Competition Around the World, 65th Antitrust Law Spring Meeting, Section of Antitrust Law, American Bar Association, Washington DC. USA (2017)
Antitrust Fines in the Era of Globalization, 15th OECD Global Forum on Competition, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris France (2016)
Chair & Moderator, Information Exchange among Competitors, The 9th Seoul International Competition Forum, Korea Fair Trade Commission, Seoul Korea (2016)
The Role of SEPs in Korean Economy and Antitrust Enforcement System, GCR Live 2nd Annual IP & Antitrust Asia-Pacific, Global Competition Review, Seoul Korea (2016)
Panelist, Problems with Global Antitrust Enforcement, Yale Antitrust Conference Enforcer Roundtable, Yale School of Management, New Haven, USA (2016)
Competition Policy and IPR Regulation for Korean Economy: Keynote Address, GCR Live IP & Antitrust Asia-Pacific, Global Competition Review, Seoul Korea (2015)
2014 KFTC IPR Guidelines: NPE Issues, GCR Live IP & Antitrust Asia-Pacific, IP Committee, World Semiconductor Council, Seoul Korea (2015)
Emerging Global Business Regulator - Asian Competition Laws, The 8th Seoul International Competition Forum, Korea Fair Trade Commission, Seoul Korea (2014)
Recent Patent Settlement Case in Korean Pharmaceutical Industry, Universite Saint Louis & the Universite Catholique de Louvain, Brussels Bellguim (2013)
Panelist, Background of the Disputes and Forecasts, American Bar Association Section of International Law 2013 Fall Meeting - The Smartphone Wars: What's New Under the Sun?, Section of International Law, American Bar Association, London UK (2013)
Main Issues of International Competition Law Enforcement in Asia: Fairness and Evidence Gathering, 18th Annual EU Competition Law and Policy Workshop, EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE, Florence Italy (2013)
Implications of the Patent Disputes between Samsung and Apple, The 3rd International Intellectual Property & Industrial Security Conference, The Financial News & Presidential Council on intellectual Property, Seoul Korea (2013)
Panelist, IPRs and antitrust – what’s the proper relationship?, GCR Live: 2nd Annual Law Leaders Asia-Pacific, Global Competition Review, Singapore (2013)
Panelist, How Far Can Patent Holders Go?, Intellectual Property Committee & the International Committee, Section of Antitrust Law, American Bar Association, New York USA (2013)
Imbalance involving IPR and Competition Policy, The 7th Seoul International Competition Forum, Korea Fair Trade Commission, Busan Korea (2012)
Panelist, the 2nd International Conference of Intellectual Property, Standards and Antimonopoly Law, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Beijing China (2012)
Expert Witness at Mock Patent Trial, AIPPI (International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property), 43rd World Intellectual Property Congress, Seoul Korea (2012)
Balancing of Competitive Effects of Abuse of Dominance in Asian Countries, Technology Transaction and Antitrust, Chengchi University & Cornerstone Intellectual Property Foundation, Taipei Taiwan (2011)
Judicial Review of Competition Law Cases in Korea, The Sixth UN Conference, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Geneva Switzerland (2010)
Balancing of Competitive Effects of Abuse of Dominance in Asian Countries, 2010 Annual Conference, Asia Competition Association, Seoul Korea (2010)
Constructing a Tri-polar System in World Competition Law Enforcement and Cooperation between Korea and China, China-Korea Laws Dialogue Forum, Beijing China (2009)
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