YOON&YANG

Tae Hwan Oh Partner

TEL 82 2 6003 7597
FAX 82 2 6003 7027
E-MAIL thoh@hwawoo.com

Tae Hwan Oh is a partner at Yoon & Yang LLC and his main practice areas are employment and labor, disputes on industrial accidents, legal subcontracting, and safety and health, etc.
While working as a judge at various courts and the Seoul Administrative Court, Mr. Oh built vast hands-on experience in employment and labor matters. He currently oversees handling of major labor-related disputes as the head of the Employment and Labor Practice Group of Yoon & Yang LLC. In particular, over the recent few years, Tae Hwan Oh has been involved with a large number of cases involving ordinary wages, illegal dispatch, non-regular workers, investigations by employment and labor administrations and labor union issues.

Practice Areas

Experience

2007-present Yoon & Yang LLC
2012-present Member, Tax System Committee, Korean Bar Association
2012-18 Member, District Appeal Commission, Seoul Metropolitan Government
2011-12 Member, Taxpayers’ Rights Committee, Gangnam District Tax Office
2010-17 Public Interest member in charge of Correcting Discrimination, Seoul Regional Labor Relations Commission
2005-07 Judge, Seoul Administration Court
2002-05 Judge, Incheon District Court
1999-02 Judge, Busan District Court

Education

1999 Judicial Research and Training Institute
1992 Sungkyunkwan University Graduate School of Law (course completion)
1989 Sungkyunkwan University College of Law (LL.B.)

Qualifications

Admitted to bar, Korea (1999)

Representative Matters

Represented Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors in litigations regarding ordinary wages, illegal dispatch and fixed-term contract workers
Advised IBM on labor supervision
Represented Hyundai Wia in litigation regarding ordinary wages and illegal dispatch
Represented Hyundai Mobis in litigation regarding the interpretation of collective agreement
Represented Hyundai Special Steel in disputes regarding disciplinary dismissal
Advised MG Non-Life Insurance and KBWS on investigations by the Ministry of Employment and Labor
Conducted audit services for Public Home Shopping
Advised Handsome and Kolon Industries on the realignment of subcontracting relationships and handled relevant litigation
Represented Korea Financial Investment Association (KOFIA) in asset managers’ collective actions on imposition of acquisition tax
Represented Korea Railroad Corporation in litigation regarding the disposition to impose value-added tax
Represented Hyundai Autoever in litigation regarding dispute over illegal dispatch
Represented Korea Technology Finance Corporation (KIBO) in litigation regarding disputes over incentives and ordinary wages
Represented Nonghyup Asset Management Co. in litigation regarding the nature of laborers
Represented Money Today, Newsis and News1 in litigation regarding internal regulatory revisions and employment & labor issues
Represented Seoul Facilities Corporation in the Ministry of Employment & Labor’s investigation and litigation regarding discriminative wage and ordinary wage
Represented Hyundai Engineering in litigation on industrial accident
Advised Fila Korea on transfer of executives

Awards

Leading Individual, Employment, Chambers and Partners Asia-Pacific (2023-2025)
Litigation Star, Labor and employment, Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific (2022-2025)

Publications

Korea Chapter, Employment, Chambers Global Practice Guides, Chambers and Partners (Co-author, 2022-2024)
Korea Chapter, Occupational Health & Safety, Lexology Getting the Deal Through, Law Business Research (Co-author, 2023)
Liability for Products, Research Society of Civil Litigation Precedents, Incheon District Court
Limited Duration Labor Contract, Society for the Research of Practical Administrative Business, Seoul Administrative Court
Meaning and Interpretation of Unlawful Act under the Tax Law, Tax Practice Study 1
Understanding of the Supreme Court’s En Banc Decision Concerning Ordinary Wages, Journal Vol. 81 No.1, AMCHAM Korea (Co-author, 2014)