Hyungwoo Park is an associate at Shin & Kim whose practice focuses on general tax consulting, tax audits and tax appeals.

Mr. Park graduated from Yonsei University with a bachelor's degree in business administration and received his J.D. from Yonsei University Law School. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Park worked as a certified public accountant in the tax consulting department of Deloitte Anjin LLC, where he provided tax consulting services, responded to tax audits, and represented clients in tax matters. After graduating from law school, Mr. Park joined Shin & Kim in 2019 to practice in various areas of taxation, including general tax consulting, tax audits, and tax appeals.

• Advised a client in a case involving an income paid by a Korean subsidiary of a multinational IT company to a foreign subsidiary, raising issues of income classification and beneficial ownership
• Advised a client in a case involving an income paid by a Korean subsidiary of a multinational company to a foreign subsidiary, raising issues of beneficial ownership
• Advised a client in a case involving a question of whether the income of a public corporation that is a nonprofit corporation is subject to corporate income tax
• Advised a client in a case involving deemed acquisition tax for Korean conglomerates and foreign-invested companies, etc.
• Advised a client in a case involving a question of whether labor expenses received by the CEO of a mid-sized Korean company constituted losses under the Corporate Income Tax Act
• Advised a client in a case involving the false accounting entries of a subsidiary of a Korean conglomerate
• Advised a client in a case involving a question of whether land acquired by a Korean real estate developer for the construction of private rental apartments met the requirements for an acquisition tax reduction
• Advised a client in a case involving the scope of the acquisition tax base for a warehouse of a Korean subsidiary of a multinational corporation
• Represented clients in a series of criminal cases involving fictitious tax invoices
• Advised and represented clients in tax appeals involving non-declaration of foreign financial accounts
• Represented a client in civil and criminal cases related to a management control dispute of a mid-sized Korean company
• Represented a Korean public company in a criminal investigation of tax extortion and tax invoicing crimes
• Advised a Korean public company in connection with its internal control issues
• Advised a Korean conglomerate on tax matters related to the reorganization of its overseas operations
• Advised a Korean conglomerate on the tax classification of unpaid wages as earned income
• Advised a Korean financial public corporation on whether services provided by the corporation were exempt from VAT
• Advised a Korean duty-free shop operator in a case involving the taxation of passenger fees
• Advised a major shareholder of a mid-sized Korean company on payment of inheritance tax in connection with his inheritance
• Advised a major shareholder of a mid-sized Korean company on the taxation of a share swap transaction
• Advised a major shareholder of a mid-sized Korean company on the taxation of expatriation tax
• Advised a public corporation on the treatment of unlisted shares received as a contribution in kind
• Advised and represented clients in numerous inheritance disputes