South Korean in-house counsel group, the In-Home Counsel Discussion board (IHCF), has appointed an Australian lawyer with 16 years of expertise at world pharmaceutical corporations as its new president.
At its annual basic assembly on 18 December 2024 on the Shilla Seoul lodge, the IHCF appointed Gained-Younger Jung, one of many present vice presidents, as its thirteenth president, to succeed C Y Park, who was elected president in 2021.
Jung joined Janssen Korea in 2013, and is now the agency’s senior authorized director. Earlier than Janssen, she labored as a authorized counsel at GSK for 5 years, accumulating expertise within the world pharmaceutical trade.
Jung is an Australian lawyer who majored in utilized linguistics on the College of Sydney and graduated from the College of Legislation on the College of New South Wales. She would be the third feminine president of the IHCF when her two-year time period begins on 1 January 2025, after Eunice Okay Kim and Jay Son Yang.
Based in 1999, the IHCF is the oldest in-house counsel affiliation in Korea with greater than 2,400 members.