Woongchan Yum
Associate
Woongchan Yum is an Associate at Roberts & Kehagiaras LLP, where his practice focuses on international trade law and customs compliance. He first joined the firm as a first-year summer associate and returned as an Associate Attorney after earning his J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center. He advises companies on tariff classification, customs valuation, trade remedies, Free Trade Agreement (FTA) analysis, and antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) investigations. He also advises companies on export controls and economic sanctions compliance, including export classification and licensing matters involving the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS).
During law school, Woongchan was actively involved in academic and student leadership activities at UHLC. He served as an Articles Editor for the Houston Business and Tax Law Journal, where he received the Porter Hedges Distinguished Writing Award and published an article on Section 301 litigation in the Journal’s 2024-2025 issue. He was also a member and former Treasurer of both the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association and the Association of International Energy Negotiators.
Before law school, Woongchan worked as a strategy consultant at a Big Four consulting firm and as a research assistant at another Big Four firm. He earned his B.A. in Economics, magna cum laude, from Sogang University and his J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center. He is admitted to practice in the state of Minnesota. Woongchan is fluent in Korean, has intermediate proficiency in German and Japanese, and basic proficiency in Chinese.