Min Kyung KIM

Dr. Min Kyung Kim is a Neutral at Des Voeux Chambers and an adjunct professor at the City University of Hong Kong. She served as a judge in the Korean Judiciary from 2010 to 2025, with her expertise in international commercial matters. She sat in the International Commercial Division at the Seoul Central Court and has authored Overriding Mandatory Rules in International Commercial Disputes (Hart Publishing, 2025) which has been cited in the Hong Kong High Court in Xu Peixin v Fruitful Worldwide Limited [2025] HKCFI 5846.

Her earlier book in Korean language, Overriding Mandatory Rules and International Contracts (Pakyoungsa, 2022), earned her the 16th Shimdang Law Prize in 2023 which is the most prestigious award in the field of international commercial/business law in Korea. She has also published widely in leading journals and is a regular speaker at international conferences.

Dr. Kim participated in the recent amendment of the Korean Arbitration Act. She is a co-author of the Korean judiciary's Practice Guide on Arbitration-related Cases (2018) and Commentary on the Korean Arbitration Act (Thomson Reuters, forthcoming in 2026). She is a delegation member of the Korean Judiciary to the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts (SIFoCC).

She has taught courses on international commercial arbitration and litigation at the City University of Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore, and Singapore Management University. She holds a BA, MA and PhD from Seoul National University, and an LLM from the University of Cambridge (Queens’ College).