Seok-hyun Song (송석현), Engineer, Educator and Lawyer
Legal Counsel, NAVER WEBTOON Ltd. (Seongnam, South Korea)
Contact: shsong@webtoonscorp.com (E-mail)
X.com: @hyungoon
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Seok-hyun Song is a legal counsel at NAVER WEBTOON Ltd. He earned both his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a M.S. through the integrated master’s and doctoral program from KAIST. He then received his J.D. from Yonsei University Law School and subsequently passed the Bar Examination.
Before joining NAVER WEBTOON, Mr. Song built an extensive legal career. He served as an attorney in Yulchon’s IP & Technology practice group and as an in-house counsel at the global game company Smilegate Co., Ltd., where he handled legal and compliance matters. Prior to that, he was an attorney at LIN LLC, handling litigation and providing legal advice on intellectual property (IP), information protection, and technology issues for domestic and international clients. He also served as an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science (currently the Department of Cyber Science) at the Republic of Korea Naval Academy.
Education
B.S. Degree, 2006. 3 - 2010. 2, in Electrical Engineering and IT Business (double major / Summa cum laude), KAIST.
M.S. Degree (Integrated PhD program), 2010. 3 - 2013. 2, in Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Advisor : Prof. Jun Kyun Choi.
J.D. Degree, 2017. 3 - 2020. 2, Yonsei University Law School.
Research Interests
Media Convergence & Future Media
Network, Web, Information Technology
Science and Technology Law
Entertainment Law
Intellectual Property
Data Rights, Data Protection
Lectures
Introduction to Computer Science (2013 Fall ~ 2015 Fall)
Software Engineering (2014 Spring & Fall, 2016 Spring)
Mobile Computing and Applications (2015 Spring)
Ubiquitous Computing (2015 Summer)
Object Oriented Programming (2015 Fall)
Discrete Mathematics (2015 Fall)
Honors and Awards
2010 KAIST 스마트폰 S/W 경진대회 금상 (2010.11)
제1회 스마트폰-스마트패드 앱스 개발방법 워크샵 우수상 (2011.1)
2011년 창조캠퍼스 Idea 경진대회 장려상 (2011.11)
2011 LSI Dreamer Prize 대상 (2011.11)
Outstanding Demo Award in IEEE GCCE 2014 (2014.10)
명예해사인상 (2016.5)
제5회 특허소송변론경연대회 입선 (2018.8)
Yonsei Law School, Academic Research Scholarship (2018, 2019)
Publications and Patents
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