Lawyers Proliferate
19 December, 2019
There are now over 30,000 qualified lawyers in Korea as of Wednesday, five years after their number broke the 20,000 mark.
The Korean Bar Association pinned a badge on the 30,000th registered lawyer, Lee Jung-min from Hanyang University Law School.
Every qualified lawyer must register with the KBA before starting to practice.
The number of qualified lawyers broke the 10,000 milestone in 2006, a century after the country's first lawyer was registered in 1906.
The formerly closed profession has proliferated rapidly once an American-style law school system was launched in 2009.
"Now we're in an era of cutthroat competition among lawyers," an association spokesman said. "We need to turn the danger of a lawyer glut into an opportunity for them to work in every nook and cranny of society."
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