YOON&YANG

• Litigation ∙ Arbitration
• Management Rights Disputes
• Family Law
• Corporate Succession
• Wealth Management Center

• 2008-present Yoon &Yang LLC
• 2023-present Member, Readers’ Committee, E-Today
• 2022-present Legal Counsel, Gwangjin-gu Office, Seoul
• 2022-present Member, Self-Evaluation Committee, Korea Customs Service
• 2020-present Member, Regulatory Deliberation Committee, Korea Customs Service
• 2016-present Member of Korean Society of Family Law

• 2014 Wake Forest University School of Law (LL.M.)
• 2008 Judicial Research and Training Institute
• 2006 Yonsei University College of Law (LL.B.)

[Books]

• Inheritance and Gift Tax in One Volume, Say Korea (Co-author, 2025)
• The Art of Inheritance: Saving Taxes and Preventing Disputes, Maeil Business Newspaper (2018)

[Media Contributions]

• Is a contract of gift valid if signed by pressuring a father bedridden after heart surgery? (Money Today)
• Mother who remarried and moved to Australia dies…who inherits KRW 200 million deposited in her bank account? (Money Today)
• Family trusts also feasible (Money Today)
• So-called “Goo Hara Act” newly enacted…parents can also lose their right of in heritance (Money Today)
• Land owned by deceased grandfather skyrockets 100-fold…story surrounding inheritance feud among descendants (Money Today)
• What is the claim for recovery of inheritance that the LG Group’s owner family is fighting over? (Money Today)
• Life insurance payout taken by husband’s mistress…can the wife claim it? (Money Today)
• Husband leaves wife nothing…is a will made abroad invalid? (Money Today)
• Brother’s attempt to murder sister over inheritance…can he still inherit? (Money Today)
• Renouncing inheritance in advance to marry against father’s wish…is this scene from “Remarriage and Desires” legally valid? (Money Today)
• Does renouncing inheritance eliminate the duty to return the forced share? (Money Today)
• Undutiful children cannot inherit…Constitutional Court’s ruling affects lawsuit involving forced shares (Money Today)
• How to minimize forced share that threaten “business succession” and shakes up management control? [Guide to the Framework Act on Small and Medium Enterprises] (Maeil Business Newspaper)
• “Trust over bequest”…how to properly pass down your wealth (Hankyung Money)
• Flexible trusts: Solution from asset management to succession (Hankyung Money)
• Filial piety contract insufficient…secure future with a trust (Hankyung Money)
• [Inheritance Planning] How to prevent family inheritance dispute caused by dementia (Hankyung Money)
• [Inheritance Planning] Frequent delays in will execution…solving inheritance tax issues through trusts (Hankyung Money)
• [Landmark Korean Court Rulings] “Security interest of a qualified heir takes precedence”…lack of protection for the deceased’s creditors (Korea Economic daily)
• [Special] Q&A on confusing divorce settlement calculations (Hankyung Money)
• [Special] Solving money issues in divorce (Hankyung Money)
• Donation through charitable trusts (Newspim)
• A child born through surrogacy…who is the mother? (Newspim)
• Resolving inheritance dispute with a common-law spouse through trust (Newspim)
• How far back can you claim child support? (Newspim)
• Wise divorce proceedings (Newspim)
• How to calclate forced share when bequested property is sold or expropriated? (Newspim)
• Always consider execution when drafting a will (Newspim)
• Can a “gift causa mortis (gift effective upon death)”to a child born out of wedlock be revoked? (Newspim)
• Can a living trust prevent inheritance dispute over forced share? (Seoul Economic Daily)

[Lectures]

• Delivererd lecture on Advanced Management Program co-hosted by Maeil Business Newspaper and Yoon & Yang LLC
• Delivered lectures and training on inheritance and trust for leading financial institutions (i.e., Woori Bank, IBK, NH Nonghyup Bank, Samsung Securities, Korea Investment & Securities, Hana Securities, KOREITs, Samsng Life, and Hanwha Life), media outlets (i.e., E-Today and Mail Business Newspaper), and associations (i.e., Water Industry Forum, Korea Automotive Parts Industry Promotion Foundation, Korea Construction Safety Association, and Korea Specialized Construction Association)

[Press Releases]

• Yoon & Yang LLC’s Wealth Management Center holds workshop to promote charitable trusts [Law & Biz Briefing] (Economic Daily)
• Aging wealthy baby boomers…rising disputes in transfer of wealth (The Law Times)
• Hard to reclaim once bequested…trusts are more advantageous for preserving a founder’s wish (Maeil Business Newspaper)
• [People in Focus] Sora Yang, Head of Yoon & Yang LLC’s Wealth Management Team (Jose Ilbo)
• [IB Tomato] Yoon & Yang LLC offers “one-stop” wealth management service…from tax inheritance to corporate consulting (News Tomato)
• “Yoon & Yang LLC’s Wealth Management Center” rises as a strong leader in retirement wealth management solution provider (Weekly Dong-A)
• [Legal Insight] Era of widening wealth gap, the wealthy prepare in advance…Sora Yang of Yoon & Yang LLC suggests “living trust” as solution for inheritance disputes (Financial News)
• “Building the strongest trust team”…offer the industry’s first legacy settlement service (Hankyung Money)
• Top-tier trust consulting in Korea…reshaping the paradigm of inheritance planning (Hankyung Money)
• [Era of Great Inheritance] Part 2: Second generation farmer saves on huge inheritance tax through farming inheritance deduction (Chosun Biz)
• Heated “war of wealth” over division of property…major law firms strengthen family law and inheritance practice group (Korea Economic Daily)
• Real estate and stock market boom leas to surge in inheritance planning inquiries at law firms (Korea Economic Daily)
• Yoon & Yang is the choice if “wishing to inherit without any dispute”…Yoon & Yang launches the first legacy settlement service among major law firms (Money Today)
• [Invest] Inheritance and divorce lawsuits becomes a gold mine…major law firms compete to specialize in family law (Invest Chosun)
• [Exclusive] “War of wealth” over property division…scale of divorce litigation expands
• Notable inheritance precedents in 2023: What is the conclusion as to “renunciation of forced shares”?