Peter & Kim | Seoul ADR Festival 2025

Peter & Kim was pleased to be a Platinum Sponsor for Seoul ADR Festival 2025, which ran from 27 to 31 October 2025

Our team was busy across the week!

๐‚๐š๐ฆ๐ฉ๐š๐ข๐ ๐ง ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐†๐ซ๐ž๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ซ ๐€๐ซ๐›๐ข๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐–๐š๐ฅ๐ค ๐“๐ก๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก ๐’๐ž๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ: We were pleased to co-host the inaugural Campaign for Greener Arbitrations: The Green Pledge Walk In Seoul!

๐€๐ฌ๐ข๐š ๐‚๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ฅ ๐‹๐š๐ฐ ๐’๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ: James Morrison spoke on a panel exploringย Seoul as a Civil Law Seatย (presided over by a kangaroo court?).

๐€๐ซ๐›๐ข๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐€๐œ๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐†๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ: Kap-You (Kevin) KIM joined a Secretariat panel event exploring how the convergence of different generations can impact the conduct and outcomes of arbitration.

๐ƒ๐ˆ๐’@๐’๐€๐… ๐–๐ข๐ง๐ ๐…๐š๐ซ๐ฆ ๐ƒ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ: We were delighted to host this Deutsche Institution fรผr Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit e.V. (DIS) German Arbitration Institute event, with Mino Han joining the panel to explore global perspectives on wind farm disputes.

๐’๐ˆ๐€๐‚-๐˜๐’๐ˆ๐€๐‚ ๐’๐ž๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ ๐–๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฉ: Jennifer (Eunkyung) Yoo and Arie Eernisse spoke at a session exploring the new Singapore International Arbitration Centre Rules with a mock hearing of an Emergency Arbitration.

๐’๐ฐ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ญ ๐‹๐š๐ฐ: With speakers including Ara Cho and Flavio Peter, this session, co-hosted with ASA – Swiss Arbitration Association, provided a study of Swiss contract law and its advantages for cross-border transactions.

๐€๐ฌ๐ข๐š-๐๐š๐œ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ ๐€๐ƒ๐‘ ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐Ÿ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž: Kap-You (Kevin) KIM co-moderated a session focused onย Modernising International Arbitration: How Tribunals Drive Innovation scrutinizing established standards to determine if they truly meet the needs of users.

๐†๐€๐‘ ๐‹๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐’๐ž๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ: Co-chaired by Kap-You (Kevin) KIM and Joongi KIM, the 2nd edition of GARย Live: Seoul offered the opportunity to hear from leading global practitioners, including SeungMin Lee who spoke on the panelย Lights, camera….arbitration? Emerging entertainment disputes, that considered the role of arbitration to resolve disputes in Korea’s entertainment landscape.

๐„๐ง๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐œ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐€๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐•๐ข๐ž๐ญ๐ง๐š๐ฆ: ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐–๐ข๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‚๐ก๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž: We were pleased to co-host this event with YKVN. Mino Han and Jennifer (Eunkyung) Yoo joined colleagues to explore the evolving dispute resolution framework in Vietnam.

๐๐š๐ฏ๐ข๐ ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐”.๐’. ๐“๐ซ๐š๐๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ & ๐ƒ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž ๐‘๐ข๐ฌ๐ค๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐Š๐จ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ: Arie Eernisse spoke at this Young ITA Talks event which examined current U.S. investment and trade policies and how they have reshaped Korea-related investments.


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