Dr. Tae-hoon Kim is chairman and founder of “Lawyers for Human Rights and Unification of Korea”. Previously, he was a Commissioner of the National Human Rights Commission of the Republic of Korea and the Chairman of the Special Committee for North Korean Human Rights of the NHRCK. He is an attorney at law of Yoon & Yang L.L.C. and a member of the Subcommittee on Human Rights in North Korea of the Korean Bar Association. He authored part of the “White Paper on North Korean Human Rights” published by KBA in 2008 and 2010.
He formerly served as a presiding judge of the Seoul Central District Court where he handled an extensive number of cases. He graduated from Seoul National University College of Law, LL.B., and has been a Columbia University Law School Visiting Scholar.
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