Peter Pyungwoo Kim

Peter Pyungwoo Kim is a Korean lawyer, and an attorney-at-law licensed in both South Korea and Illinois. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Seoul National University who earned a master of law degree from Harvard Law School, and served for several years as a judge in South Korea before becoming a law professor at Sogang University Law School. Kim served as chairman of the International Association of Korean Lawyers, was elected as the forty-fifth president of the Korean Bar Association, and...See more

Peter Pyungwoo Kim is a Korean lawyer, and an attorney-at-law licensed in both South Korea and Illinois. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Seoul National University who earned a master of law degree from Harvard Law School, and served for several years as a judge in South Korea before becoming a law professor at Sogang University Law School. Kim served as chairman of the International Association of Korean Lawyers, was elected as the forty-fifth president of the Korean Bar Association, and was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles, Law School. After the impeachment of President Park, he founded the Save Korea Foundation and published three Korean-language books about the case: Impeaching the Impeachment, The Rule of Law Is Dead in Korea, and The Impeachment Coup. He currently resides in Beverly Hills, California, with his wife. See less