Son of Famed Novelist to Head Bar Association
By Park Si-sioo
Staff Reporter
Lawyer Kim Pyung-woo, 64, is expected to become the new president of the Korean Bar Association (KBA).
Kim, the second child of the late novelist Kim Tong-ni, beat the runner-up candidate, lawyer Lee Joon-beom, Monday by getting 2,469 votes ― or 58 percent of 4,245 valid votes ― in the election run by the Seoul Bar Association (SBA).
Theoretically, the new president is to be determined at the KBA's general meeting of provincial representatives slated for Jan. 26. But with SBA controlling more than half of the representatives, Kim is almost certain to succeed current president Lee Jin-gang.
During the campaign, Kim pledged to make all-out efforts to provide better legal services to clients.
Born in 1945, Kim graduated from Seoul National University's college of law and served as a judge at Seoul and provincial courts. Having earned a masters degree in law at Harvard law school, he's a licensed New York attorney.
Lawyer Kim Hyun was elected the new SBA president.