Korea's Employment Rules Are Complex. We Navigate Every Step With You.
K Labor Law brings global HR fluency and investigative precision to every labor dispute, compliance question, and workforce challenge you face in Korea.
Approach
What Sets Us Apart
We've been inside the room.
Our perspective comes from working inside global organizations, not just advising them. We know how employment decisions are actually made — under real business pressure, between headquarters policy and Korean law.
We reconstruct facts, not just arguments.
Most employment disputes turn on facts, not doctrine. We bring investigative discipline to every matter — reconstructing timelines and building factual records that hold under adversarial scrutiny.
We bridge global policy and Korean law.
Employment decisions rarely follow Korean law alone. We help leadership teams close the gap between Korean legal requirements, regional HR policy, and headquarters expectations.
Effective legal advice must also work as business advice.
We frame legal risk in business terms — what happens next, and what it costs — so leadership can make real decisions, not just read legal opinions.
What We Do
K Labor Law advises across the full spectrum of Korean employment law — for foreign and domestic companies alike.
Employment Compliance & Advisory
Employment contracts, HR policies, work rules, payroll compliance, and social insurance — frameworks built to hold up under Korea's strict enforcement.
Labor Disputes & Representation
Representation before the Labor Relations Commission and courts — dismissal, wage and severance, and workplace harassment matters.
Employment Investigations & Workplace Conduct
Workplace investigations and disciplinary-process counsel that manage legal, procedural, and reputational risk.
Executive & Cross-Border Employment
Executive contracts, expatriate employment, and cross-border hiring structures — with immigration coordination built in.
Collective Labor Relations
Collective bargaining, labor-management councils, and strike and industrial action response — legal expertise with strategic judgment.
Workforce Restructuring
Reductions-in-force, voluntary separation programs, business transfers, and post-merger workforce integration.
Industrial Accident & Workplace Safety
Accident investigations, industrial accident claims, and Serious Accidents Punishment Act (SAPA) compliance.
Non-Standard & Platform Employment
Worker status assessments and compliant structures for platform, contingent, and contractor workforces.
Korean employment law moves fast. The challenge is rarely understanding what changed. It's understanding what the change requires your organization to do.
Insights
Practical analysis of the developments that matter to companies operating in Korea — regulatory changes, significant Labor Relations Commission and court decisions, and lessons from active advisory work. Written for the HR leaders, legal teams, and executives who must act on them.
- MK Lee
- Founder & Certified Public Labor Attorney (CPLA)
- MBA, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- Registered with the Korean Association of Certified Public Labor Attorneys
The right expertise, when it matters.
K Labor Law advises businesses and individuals across the full spectrum of Korean employment law, combining legal expertise with practical experience in global HR, labor relations, and workplace investigations. Every matter is led by a Certified Public Labor Attorney (CPLA), with trusted specialists brought in whenever broader expertise is required.
From the inside out.
Before founding K Labor Law, MK Lee helped establish Korean employment compliance for Deel Korea, supporting multinational companies as they expanded into Korea and bridging global HR policy with local employment law. Earlier, she co-founded MScan, a patented consumer analytics startup — experience that continues to shape a practical approach balancing legal requirements with real-world business needs.
More than one lens.
MK Lee spent five years as an investigative journalist at KBS, developing a disciplined approach to reconstructing facts and communicating complex issues with clarity. She went on to advise multinational companies on Korean employment compliance, and today also works in labor relations — participating in industry-wide social dialogue and collective bargaining. Rather than following a traditional legal career path, she brings together journalism, global HR, business leadership, and labor law, allowing K Labor Law to approach workplace issues from multiple perspectives, not doctrine alone.
Visit Us
Visit Our Office
K Labor Law is located at 6F, 31 Gangnam-daero 92-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Address
6F, 31 Gangnam-daero 92-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul
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Tel.
+82 507 1360 0013
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contact@klaborlaw.com