About us




HLB Tax and Legal Korea provides world-class legal and tax services.


Outstanding tax services in Korea

We focus on delivering high quality tax advice and effective implementation to achieve tax savings and mitigate tax exposure. By providing strategic and integrated tax solutions in the face of constantly changing legal and regulatory requirements; we allow our clients to focus on their core business activities. The tax professionals at HLB Tax and Legal Korea are keenly aware of the changes to the global tax environment and sensitive to tax policy shifts that can impact our clients’ businesses. We keep abreast of all critical aspects of new tax developments both in Korea and abroad. By addressing tax issues from both a domestic and international perspective, we provide comprehensive tax advice seamlessly across numerous jurisdictions.

As a fully integrated tax practice, we maintain the highest practice standards to provide industry specific solutions so that our clients can stay ahead of current market trends. Our integrated approach means we work closely with HLB Global as well as our firm’s other practice groups to provide highly effective solutions for our clients.

Our tax practice consists of over 120 leading attorneys, CPAs, CTAs and other advisory, compliance, transfer pricing and customs professionals. We provide exceptional tax services to both Korean and international clients in Korean, English, Chinese as well as other languages.


Part of Korea’s premier full-service law firm

In addition, as we are part of one of the largest, full-service law firms in Korea, we offer one-stop solutions, providing our clients with responsive, effective and practical solutions to their legal issues.

Our excellent reputation for trustworthiness and reliability has been built on a foundation of judiciously maintaining time-proven practices and giving priority to substance over appearance. While valuing innovation that brings genuine improvement, the firm continues to eschew attention-getting gimmicks and novelty. Our key values are: specialization/expertise, professionalism and full consideration for each client’s needs. We are committed to doing our utmost to at all times conduct ourselves in the role of Korea’s leading law firm in a socially responsible and positive way.

Our practice is ranked “Top Tier”, “Band 1” or “Outstanding” by all prestigious law firm and tax practice ranking organizations.

Premier tax and legal practice
Our objective is to provide the best possible service to our clients, with a full range of tax and legal expertise custom-tailored to meet each client’s particular needs. We maintain specialized practice groups and teams in every area, each of which is nationally recognized for excellence and staffed by leading experts in their fields, with additional subspecialties within each practice group.

One stop solutions
We are highly regarded for providing our clients with timely, effective and practical solutions for nearly any complex legal situation. Due to the wealth of specialized professional resources available within the firm, our clients, in the vast majority of cases, will have no need to go elsewhere in order to simply and effectively obtain any professional services that may be required. In addition to expert attorneys in every legal practice area, there are numerous other experienced professionals, including, among others, accountants (including certified public accountants and certified tax accountants), patent agents and former high ranking government officials, who are available to advise our clients on any matter where their expertise may be needed.

Social Responsibility
We not only strive to be a valuable partner to our clients, but also accepts a responsibility to contribute to making society a better place and to serve disadvantaged members of society. We at the corporate level, as well as individual members of the firm, participate regularly in charitable activities and work closely with numerous non-profit organizations.