Mr. Siwon Song is a partner at Shin & Kim and focuses his practice on dispute resolution, including litigation and arbitration, the energy, infrastructure and resources industry and marine and fisheries sectors.

Mr. Song’s practice areas cover general civil, criminal, and administrative litigation, public contracts, state-owned property, and licensing, as well as all aspects of the energy industry—including oil, gas, and other natural resources, renewable energy, nuclear energy, thermal power generation—and the infrastructure sector, including ports and airports.

Power System and Electricity Trading Advisory and Litigation

• Advised on institutional improvements to power system operation plans
• Advised on disputes in overseas nuclear power plant projects
• Litigated in a case involving the curtailment of solar power generation
• Advised on power system impact assessments for data centers
• Litigated for and advised a coal-fired power plant operator on gross costs

Power Plant Disputes

• Arbitration on design defects in safety-related equipment at a nuclear power plant
• Arbitration on additional construction costs for the purchase contract of the indoor coal storage facility, including environmental facilities, at the Coal-Fired Power Plant
• Arbitration on additional construction costs for equipment supply under a conditional purchase contract for a TCSC installation at a substation
• Arbitration on additional construction costs for an oil and LNG tank EPCC contract.
• Advisory on defects in the TSA contract for Geumseongsan onshore wind power plant

Energy and Infrastructure Advisory and Litigation

• Advised on legislative advisory concerning high-level radioactive waste management
• Advised on Jeju Hallim offshore wind power development and disputes, including lawsuits by residents against development project approval
• Advised on disputes among investors related to energy and infrastructure PF projects
• Regular consulting services for KOWEPO, KEWPCO, KOMIPO, KOEN, and KOSPO
• Advised Gadeokdo New Airport Construction Corporation

Shipping & Ports

• Advised the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, the Korea Shipping Association, and the Korea Fisheries Infrastructure Public Agency
• Advised on the development and operation of port facilities not managed by government authorities
• Litigation related to the site for the Incheon Port Redevelopment Project
• Advised on the development of overseas logistics complexes
• Litigated and advised on matters relating to long-term charter contracts

Resource Development

• Advised on the recovery of equity interests in an investment contract for a mining block in Kazakhstan
• Advised on physical exploration related to the Donghae gas field
• Arbitration on the calculation of settlement payments under an investment contract for a mining block in Abu Dhabi
• Advised on the coal purchase contract for the Moolarben Coal Complex in Australia
• Litigation involving violations of the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act in connection with a mining block in Vietnam
• Regular consulting services for the Korea National Oil Corporation and the Korea Gas Corporation

Rent, Fees, and Other Quasi-Taxes and General Administration

• Litigation involving the Port Authority's method of calculating port facility usage fees
• Litigation involving the method of calculating port facility usage fees for the installation of subsea oil pipelines
• Successfully litigated and won a case to overturn the imposition of development burden fees on the renovated Saemoonan Church
• Advised on the imposition of development burden fees for the Daechang-dong development project
• Litigated and advised clients in many cases related to the management of state-owned, public, and other properties
• Litigated and advised clients in many cases related to the conclusion and performance of central and local government contracts, as well as public contracts