Mr. Sungtae Yang is a senior legal counsel at ClassHankyul. After 42 years of long-standing life as a justice including the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Mr. Sungtae Yang has been scouted by ClassHankyul as a senior legal counsel, and based on his diverse and abundant legal knowledge and experience, he is assisting in the efficient performance and overall control of ClassHankyul’s works.

When serving as a justice, Mr. Yang held important positions not only in the area of traditional trial works covering civil and criminal matters but also in relatively unexplored fields such as bankruptcy, patent trials, and judicial administrative affairs, and made a lot of contributions to the establishment of the systems. Based on his experience and competency, Mr. Yang was appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court, and after the expiration of his term of office, he was appointed again as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

While serving as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, under the banner of “open courts that communicate with the people,” Mr. Yang made efforts for reform of the judicial branch to enhance the people’s trust toward the judicial branch by strengthening communication with the people, reorganizing the personnel system for the lifetime service as a justice, strengthening the fact-finding process, and improving the operation of the trial system. In addition, he established the Seoul Bankruptcy Court, a court specialized in bankruptcy, to lay the foundation for modernizing the bankruptcy system.