YOON&YANG
Broadcasting communications and privacy issues require a comprehensive approach that integrates the regulations inherent to the practice area, and other legal issues arising from areas like antitrust and competition, and intellectual property rights. Yoon & Yang’s Litigation/Arbitration Practice is comprised of attorneys and professionals who have accumulated a wealth of hands-on experience in a large spectrum of areas, including relevant regulatory agencies, antitrust and competition, and intellectual property rights. In addition to providing pragmatic legal services to domestic and foreign broadcasting, IT, and communications business entities, the Practice is strategically structured to provide an integrated legal service (investigation and criminal trial response, civil litigation response) that combines “law and technology” even for issues related to privacy rights.

Key Services

  • Acting in disputes related to terrestrial, cable, and satellite TV, IPTV, and other matters in the broadcasting industry
  • Acting in disputes related to internet media (portals)
  • Acting in disputes related to telecommunications business entities
  • Acting in disputes related to e-commerce
  • Acting in disputes related to regulatory agencies such as the Financial Supervisory Service, the Financial
  • Services Commission, the Personal Information Protection Commission, and Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA)
  • Responding to technical accident investigations related to privacy leaks and other hacking breaches, and handling related legal disputes
  • Handling various litigation cases related to cryptocurrencies and exchanges


 

Representative Cases

  • Case on retransmission fees charged by three terrestrial TV stations (KBS, MBC, SBS) to MSOs and individual SOs
  • Damages case on terrestrial roadcasting of exit polls by three terrestrial TV stations (KBS, MBC, SBS)
  • Litigation on a ban on illegal advertising using set-top boxes
  • Cryptocurrency exchange class action litigation and litigation related to privacy leaks
  • Violation of the Personal Information Protection Act from a major large-scale mart’s promotional event
  • A medical information company’s Personal Information Protection Act violation case
  • A high-speed internet service provider’s privacy leak litigation case and follow-up response to the KFTC
  • A chicken franchise’s dispute over data and privacy infringements
  • The National Health Insurance Service’ criminal litigation case on a patient data leak