Why Two Korean Inheritance Lawyers Start a Channel

After handling inheritance cases for many years, the same questions come back to us repeatedly. What should be organized while a parent is still alive? One sibling is starting to reach into the parent's assets - where do we begin checking? A post-death dispute has begun - what do we do, and in what order? Explaining all this to one person at a time inside the office does not reach the broader group of people who are wandering in the same questions. This video is the first greeting from a channel built on the resolution to put those answers into video form.

Inheritance is a subject that one perspective alone cannot fully resolve. When the perspective of a presiding judge who handled inheritance cases at the family court meets the perspective of a litigator who handles family disputes in criminal and civil court, the picture is typically more three-dimensional.

Attorney Yoon Jisang served for years as a presiding judge at the Seoul Family Court and the Daejeon Family Court, and is the author of the inheritance practice manual used internally as a training text. Attorney Roh Jongeon has represented the Park Su-hong case and has continued the work of legislative petition to abolish the intra-family theft immunity (chinjok sangdorae). Bringing the two perspectives together is the starting point of this channel.

The channel typically plans to cover the following areas.

• The legal meaning and basic structure of inheritance
• Family structures that frequently produce disputes and how to check them in advance
• The typical flow of post-death partition of inherited property
• The typical issues in claims for return of the legal portion
• Family-internal property crimes and changes after the intra-family theft immunity decision
• Will-substitute trusts available while a parent is healthy
• Adult guardianship available when a parent's health deteriorates
• Patterns of cases frequently encountered, from the judge's perspective

Because the trajectory of the same case changes dramatically with the facts, what is covered in the videos is organized as general legal information. Judgment on your own case is possible only through a separate consultation.

This channel will not become "a channel that quickly introduces sensational cases." Our first promise is to make videos that lead, from hearing a case, to your next action - the action of checking what to verify inside your own family.

This is the first video, but it helps to leave one general checklist alongside the greeting. If your family falls within any of the following, we recommend a check before a post-death dispute begins.

• A non-marital child exists outside the marriage
• A parent has remarried, creating a stepmother or stepfather relationship
• A child of the parents has died first, placing grandchildren or a spouse in the position of representation heir
• One of the siblings shows strong desire for the parents' assets
• A dispute occurred when one parent passed first
• A parent is showing early signs of dementia
• The parents' assets appear to be flowing disproportionately toward one sibling

These items are closer to "triggers" than to "causes" of a dispute. Even within the same family structure, whether a preventive review is done dramatically changes the weight of the post-death dispute.

The two of us would like to set the following promises together through this channel.

1. The content of the videos is organized at the level of general legal information.
2. We will not use phrases that promise a particular outcome.
3. In every video, we will repeat the point that the actual outcome of your case varies with the facts and the evidence.
4. If a comment contains the facts of your own case, we will not address it publicly on the channel. We will guide you to a separate consultation channel.

Q. Can I get a direct answer for my own case from the videos on this channel? A. That is typically difficult. The content covered in the videos is at the level of general legal information, and a judgment on your own case requires a separate review of the facts and evidence.

Q. Who benefits most from this channel? A. Typically, it will be most helpful to those who are considering a preventive review while their parents are still alive, and to those who are organizing their next steps in the early stage of a dispute.

Q. How do I get a direct consultation outside the videos? A. If your family structure is one of the high-dispute-risk structures, you can review the items to organize first at start a chat consultation now.

If you would like to figure out where the preventive review for your family should start, you can apply through starting a chat consultation now.

This article is general legal information based on the YouTube greeting above by the family and inheritance team of Jonjae Law Firm.

Reviewing attorneys: Family and Inheritance Team / Last reviewed: 2026-05-30

Disclaimer: This article provides general legal information and is not legal advice for a specific case. Outcomes can vary with the facts and evidence even in similar matters, so please consult an attorney for an individual review of any actual dispute.