YULCHON, BAE, KIM & LEE, JIPYONG, ClassHankyul, and THEKIMLAWFIRM were chosen as the firms with the best public interest activities in the '2025 Law Firm Consumer Report.' In the survey item 'This firm is active in public interest work and in realizing social values,' three of the seven firms rated by at least 100 respondents scored 4.0 or higher ('very good'). YULCHON earned the highest rating at 4.16, followed by JIPYONG and BAE, KIM & LEE at 4.07 each. BAE, KIM & LEE had also earned the highest public-interest score in in the 2024 evaluation (4.02), taking the 'public interest lead' for a second consecutive year. The overall average across the firms evaluated was 3.84, essentially unchanged from 3.83 in the 2024 evaluation. Compared with the other categories, where average scores were mostly above 4.0, the public interest score was relatively low. The average for the 10 large firms - these three plus Dongin, YOON & YANG, SHIN & KIM, Lee & Ko, D&A, KIM & CHANG, and BARUN LAW - was 3.82, below the overall average. 모바일 야마토2pc버전 Of the 33 firms with at least five respondents in total, only 10 exceeded the average of 3.84, and three firms scored in the 2-point range. The highest score across went to THEKIMLAWFIRM (4.20) of . YULCHON, which earned the top rating in , established the public-interest foundation 'Onyul' (chaired by Se-ri Yoon) in 2014 and has made steady efforts in public interest work. In March 2024 it launched a 'Value Growth Committee' and brought in former Samsung Electronics President In-yong Rhee as its chair and concurrently co-chair of Onyul to focus on realizing social values - efforts that appear to be reflected in the evaluation. Onyul established a 'Basic Legal Studies Award' to honor those who have made academic contributions. JIPYONG, too, has pursued active public interest work through the non-profit corporation 'Duroo,' which it established. Sung-taek Lim (27th Class), a JIPYONG co-founder and former representative, serves as chair of Duroo, personally overseeing its public-interest work. 모바일 바다이야기오리지널 Duroo has carried on legal support to protect the socially vulnerable, taking on cases such as a discrimination-relief lawsuit to guarantee moviegoing rights for people with disabilities and human-rights violation cases at residential facilities for people with disabilities. Since 2017 it has published a 'Social Responsibility Report,' the first among Korean law firms to do so, and it is also running an 'Onmaeullo' project to protect the rights of children and adolescents. BAE, KIM & LEE was the first Korean law firm to establish a public-interest foundation, 'Dongcheon,' in 2009. As of 2024, 77.2% of its 430 Korea-based lawyers took part in public interest work, showing the firm's genuine commitment. Since 2010 BAE, KIM & LEE has presented an annual 'BAE, KIM & LEE Public Interest and Human Rights Award' to individuals or groups that have contributed to social good and the advancement of human rights, and it is expanding legal support to social enterprises, social ventures, and cooperatives. 바다이야기 상어 In August 2024 it secured a final Supreme Court ruling that 'membership contributions to a non-profit corporation's support association may be excluded from the registration requirement under the Act on the Collection and Use of Donations,' making a practical contribution to the work of non-profit corporations. In , ClassHankyul received the highest rating at 4.04. ClassHankyul has set up its own fund to provide ongoing support to public-interest groups, such as the human-rights law camp run by the public-interest human-rights law foundation Gonggam. In , THEKIMLAWFIRM earned the top rating at 4.20. Based in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, and grown from there, THEKIMLAWFIRM drew attention in the local community and in the field of education-related human rights in 2024 when it obtained the first court decision suspending the effect of the 'minimum academic standard' - a rule restricting student athletes below a certain academic threshold from competing. As social expectations for law firms' public interest contributions keep growing, evaluators appear to want public interest work carried out not merely as a means of burnishing image, but as part of fulfilling social responsibility with genuine expertise and sustainability. Cho Han-Joo, Reporter bility wit