Kyeng-Wook Kim
Korea University
研究室紹介
Professor Kyeng-Wook Kim's research lab specializes in civil procedure law, with a focus on litigation reform, class actions, and collective redress mechanisms in modern legal systems. The lab explores institutional innovations such as class actions (e.g., U.S. model), Verbandsklage (German model), and South Korea’s Securities-Related Class Action, aiming to enhance access to justice and reduce procedural burdens. It also investigates procedural doctrines like indispensable co-litigation, capacity of unincorporated associations, and litigation agreements, particularly in the context of judicial efficiency and party autonomy. The lab’s work is deeply rooted in comparative law and judicial decision-making, especially analyzing landmark rulings from South Korea’s Supreme Court.
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15Incidents involving mass production, investment, and consumption victims are growing more frequent modern social structure. As a result of such phenomena, the number of similar types of damage inflict by a corporate or a specific person are rapidly increasing. However, the cost of monetary and human resources and time is too high for an individual to take legal measures against these types of damages; hence many nations are looking for new ways to efficiently resolve disputes in addition to trad
In a case of co-litigation, procedural acts by one of the co-litigants or procedural acts by the counter party and any matters regarding one of the co-litigants, shall not affect other co-litigants [Ordinary Co-Litigation in Article 66 of the Korean Civil Procedure Act (KCPA)]. However, the KCPA permits an exception to this rule on the basis of the proceedings and substantive reasoning, and the Act incorporates the Indispensable co-litigation rule, in which a consolidated decision can be rendere
In the modern society, the entities in many different forms become interested parties in transactions. The capacity to sue or to be sued of the associations that are not corporate entities is defined in Article 52 of the Civil Procedure Code of Korea. What is absent in the said Article 52 is a clear guidance on the requirements to qualify as such associations. This apparent absence leads to the issue of the capacity to sue or to be sued of Civil Code partnership in civil suits. In Chapter II, di
In the reorganization procedure, various classes of stakeholders participate. The law helps them make a group decision by classifying them into secured creditors, unsecured creditors, shareholders and interest holders and requiring a vote by each class on the reorganization plan (Article 236). The adoption of the reorganization plan requires the affirmative vote by all classes. However,even if the affirmative vote in one or more classes is less than the legal threshold for approval, the court is
The agreement relating to litigation refers to an agreement that is made before the occurrence of a litigation or in a non-litigious setting between current or prospective litigants that enter into such agreement for the purpose of creating direct or indirect legal effects on a certain current or prospective civil litigation. It is not a matter of whether the power of a judge can be restricted by the agreement of certain interested parties, but a matter of whether the parties have the power of d
2023년에도 대법원은 학문적으로나 실무적으로 중요한 의미를 가질 수 있는 많은 판결들을 선고하였는데, 그 중 종전의 판례의 취지를 확인하는데 그치지 않고 더 나아간 의미를 담고 있다고 생각되는 판결들을 선정하여 그 내용과 민사소송절차상의 의미를 분석하여 보고자 한다. 이번 ‘2023년 민사소송법 중요 판례 분석’에서 살펴본 민사소송법상의 주제들은, (i) 대리권을 흠결한 소송대리인의 소송행위와 그 추인, (ii) 제1심 법원의 항소장 각하명령 취소결정에 대한 즉시항고, (iii) 명시적 일부청구와 소멸시효 중단 및 이와 관련된 법원의 석명권 행사의 범위, (iv) 의료과오 민사소송에서의 인과관계 증명완화에 관한 새로운 기준, (v) 조정을 갈음하는 결정(재판상 화해)의 기판력이 화해의 당사자가 아닌 제3자에게 미치는지 여부에 관한 것들이다. 이들 판결들에 대해서는 공통적으로, (1) 사안의 경과, (2) 판결의 요지, (3) 분석을 목차로 삼아 판결에 대한 분석을 진행하며, 이때
도산절차는 채권자와 채무자 사이의 집단적인 채무조정의 절차를 제도화한 것이라 할 수 있다. 여기서 청산형 절차를 선택할 것인지 재건형 절차를 선택할 것인지의 문제를 포함하여 채무자 재산에 대한 최적의 환가방법을 찾는 것은 채무자재산에 관한 충분한 정보가 제공된 상태에서 채권자 사이의 자유의사와 상호교섭을 통해 이루어져야만 한다. 다만 도산법은 소위 포괄집행제도로서 개별집행절차를 보완하는 것이며, 그 목적은 채권자의 집단적 만족을 최대화하는 것으로 이해되는 한, 청산형 절차이냐 재건형 절차이냐의 문제는 최종적으로는 채권자집단의 이익을 기준으로 하지 않을 수 없다. 한편 채권자 집단에 의해 회생계획안이 가결되지 못하면 회생절차는 더 이상 존속할 정당성을 상실하게 되며, 또한 가결이 되었다고 하더라도 채무자의 재건에 반대한 채권자가 자신의 투하자본을 채무자 기업에 반드시 재투자해야할 이유도 없다. 따라서 반대한 채권자에게는 채무자 기업을 청산한다고 가정했을 때 그가 얻을 수 있는 가치를
While the new adult guardianship system has been implemented since July 2013, the current civil procedure code prescribes provisions only about litigation capacity of incompetent or quasi-incompetent person accordingly to the old legal incompetency regime. Also, the new amendment of Civil Code has abolished Family Council and has implemented system of guardianship supervisor, however, the Article 56 of current Civil Procedure Code still prescribes about the special authorization of Family Counci
금전채권에 기한 강제집행절차에서 압류채권자 이외에 다른 채권자가 강제집행절차에 참가하는 경우 이들 채권자들을 어떻게 취급할 것인지에 관해 각국에서는 그 법적 토양과 실체법질서 등과의 관계를 고려하여 다양한 기준이제시되고 있으며, 이는 크게 독일과 영미제국이 채택하고 있는 우선주의, 우리나라와 프랑스 민사소송법이 채택하고 있는 평등주의 및 스위스의 군단우선주의로 나뉘어 발전하였다. 우선주의는 강제집행절차에 참가한 순서에 따라먼저 강제집행에 착수하여 압류한 채권자에게 우선적으로 그 채권의 전부에대해 만족을 얻을 수 있는 권리를 주는 것인 반면, 평등주의는 어떤 채권자에의해 개시된 강제집행절차에 참가한 모든 채권자를 평등하게 취급하는 주의로서 만약 채권자의 만족에 제공할 수 있는 채무자의 재산이 총채권액에 미치지 못하는 경우에는 각 채권자의 채권액에 비례하여 배당이 이루어지게 된다. 군단우선주의는 이러한 양자의 중간적 단계에 해당하는 입장을 취하여 채권자가 집행절차에 참가한 시점을 몇 개
Today’s reorganization proceedings added the order of comprehensive prohibition to the Corporate Reorganization Act that institutionalized provisional remedy and individual stay order so as to preclude any voluntary payment by debtors and any action by creditors to collect before the court order commenced. Reorganization proceedings, on the other hand, commands comprehensive stay order against all creditors, forbidding via law all unsecured and secured creditors from executing any individual act
Dieser Aufsatz behandelt das deutsche selbständige Beweisverfahren. Das frühere deutsche Beweissicherungsverfahren, das auf das geltende koreanische Beweissicherungverfahren starken Einfluss hatte, wurde mit dem Rechtspflege-Vereinfachungsgesetz vom 17. 12. 1990 abgeschafft und mit Wirkung vom 1. 4. 1991 in das selbständige Beweisverfahren umgestaltet. Das selbständige Beweisverfahren bezweckt in erster Linie die Erzielung einer vorgerichtlichen gütlichen Einigung der Parteien mit der vorsorglic
The German Insolvency Act, being enforced since 1. Jan. 1999, has been amended until today several times, but the amendment of 2011 was an essential revision of it in terms of its scale and contents. Discussions on this amendment begun on July 2010, focusing on rehabilitation of corporations, and the German Government submitted the draft of “Gesetz zur weiteren Erleichterung der Sanierung von Unterhehmen” to the German Parliament. This Bill passed Bundestag on 27. May 2011, and Bundesrat on 25.
【Abstract】 Obligation of the third debtor's explanation related to the credit garnishment Kyeng Wook Kim According to § 237 subsection 1 of Korean Civil Procedure Law (referred to as KCPL below) the creditor can file an application to require the third debtor to explain four matters: whether or not he approves the credit between the debtor and the third debtor, and if he does, any limitation on payments; whether or not he intends to pay the credit, and if he does, any limitation on payments;
In den Schadensersatzprozessen hat der Verletzte die Schadensentstehung und die Höhe des Schadens sowie die Kausalität der Verletzungshandlung für den Schaden voll zu beweisen. Gelingt es ihm nicht, volle Überzeugung des Gerichts herbeizuführen, könnte die Schadensersatzklage des Verletzten ganz oder teilweise abgewiesen werden. Um solche schwierige Situation zu vermeiden, hat der koreanische Gesetzgeber im März 2016 die koreanische Vorschrift des § 202-2 ZPO neu hereingeführt. Nach dieser neuen
Internet domains have become a commercial commodity thanks to the economic value attached to them. As a matter of fact, there have been some incidents in which people who had no economic ties to certain domain names acquired them for economic gain thanks to the first-to-file system for domain name registration. The scarcity of simple domain names with lasting impression places more economic value on domain name transactions. In this connection, whether a domain name could be subject to the enfor