YOON&YANG

Kyungok Song is a partner at Yoon & Yang LLC, where her main areas of practice are financial and capital markets, as well as corporate advisory matters.
Ms. Song is a policy-based finance expert with over 15 years of experience. She has worked at the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), the Office of the President, and the United Asset Management Corporation (UAMCO), an organization dedicated to the restructuring of insolvent companies. She is currently an adjunct professor at Sogang University’s Graduate School of Business and leads the Public Institution Management Assessment Project Team at the Ministry of Economy and Finance.

While at the FSS, in connection with the 2011 savings bank crisis, she was responsible for restructuring insolvent financial institutions—implementing prompt corrective measures for failing savings banks and reorganizing intermediary savings banks (including approvals for major shareholder changes and mergers). Her responsibilities later expanded to include on-site inspections of securities and asset management companies, coordination of investigations into unfair trading practices in the capital market, and other financial supervisory matters across relevant industries and sectors. Notably, since the foundation of the FSS, Ms. Song was the first woman to be dispatched to the Office of the President, where she was recognized as a policy expert. While serving as an administrative officer in the Office of the Legal Counsel, she exclusively provided legal advice to economic and financial government agencies.

After retiring from the FSS, Ms. Song served as the Compliance and Audit Officer at UAMCO, where she handled matters related to compliance and auditing, including non-performing loans (NPLs) and the restructuring of insolvent companies. She later led the Policy Finance Team at Shin & Kim LLC, overseeing the restructuring of companies whose main creditor was a government-owned bank or whose investor was a policy-based financial institution.