KISDI Hosts Special Seminar on AI and Legal Tech (detail)

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KISDI Hosts Special Seminar on AI and Legal Tech

Discussions Focus on the Future of Legal Tech and Legal and Institutional Issues in the AI Era

Key Topics

- Distinguishing legal information services from professional legal judgment
- Balancing the use of judicial decision data with the protection of judicial sovereignty
- Discussing the need for a Legal Tech Promotion Act

| Date: July 21, 2026, 14:00–17:00
| Venue: Grand Conference Room, 10th Floor, Post Tower, Seoul
| Co-hosted by: Korea AI Law Society, Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI), and Digital Platform Policy Forum

The Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI, President Sangkyu Rhee) co-hosted the Special Seminar on AI and Legal Tech with the Korea AI Law Society and the Digital Platform Policy Forum on July 21 at the Post Tower in Seoul.

The seminar was organized to examine the current state and future direction of legal technology (legal tech) as artificial intelligence (AI) continues to transform legal services. It also reviewed potential risks, possible responses, and the future direction of legal tech for both the public and legal professionals. Experts from industry, the legal profession, academia, and civil society participated in the event and discussed the implications of AI-enabled legal services and related policy issues.

During the opening session, Ryu Je-myung, Second Vice Minister of the Ministry of Science and ICT, and Sangkyu Rhee, President of KISDI, delivered welcoming remarks, discussing the importance of innovation in legal services in the AI era and the need to establish a foundation for the safe and trustworthy use of AI. Choi Kyung-jin, President of the Korea AI Law Society, delivered the opening address, examining the importance of developing an AI legal framework and a legal tech ecosystem that balance technological innovation, the rule of law, and the protection of citizens' rights.

In the first presentation, Lee Jin, Chief Executive Officer of LBox, presented "The Present and Future of AI-Driven Legal Tech." The presentation examined how legal tech is becoming a core infrastructure for legal services as AI evolves beyond information retrieval and content generation toward agentic AI capable of autonomously performing legal tasks. It also reviewed three major issues for the development of legal tech in the AI era: balancing the use of judicial decision data with judicial sovereignty, establishing institutional frameworks for lawyers' use and verification of AI, and fostering legal professionals capable of understanding and evaluating AI technologies.

The presentation also discussed judicial decision disclosure policies, suggesting that the existing online access system could be improved incrementally rather than through unrestricted bulk release of judicial decision data. It examined concerns that unrestricted large-scale disclosure could allow global AI companies to absorb judicial decision data more rapidly than domestic providers, given their advantages in capital, computing resources, and global distribution networks. The discussion further noted that increasing reliance on overseas AI services for legal information could raise issues related to judicial sovereignty and suggested that discussions on enacting a Legal Tech Promotion Act would help establish an institutional foundation for the legal tech industry.

The second presentation was delivered by Kim Ki-won, Senior Vice President of the Seoul Bar Association, under the title "The Adverse Effects of Legal Tech in the AI Era and the Role of Legal Professionals." The presentation reviewed both the benefits and challenges of generative AI-based legal tech. While acknowledging improvements in the efficiency of legal services, it also examined issues such as AI hallucinations, unclear allocation of responsibility, the potential decline in lawyers' professional capabilities, and increasingly standardized legal interpretation. The presentation discussed the role of AI as a tool to support, rather than replace, legal professionals and reviewed the responsibilities of legal practitioners in verifying AI-generated outputs, establishing facts, ensuring reliability, and assuming final professional responsibility. It also discussed the importance of maintaining a legal service model in which lawyers provide services using AI tools.

The third presentation was given by Professor Woojung Jeon of KAIST on "The Desirable Direction for Legal Tech Development in the AI Era." The presentation discussed approaches to addressing risks associated with AI, including hallucinations, bias, personal data breaches, and irresponsible automation. It examined the need to distinguish between the provision of legal information and professional legal judgment in specific cases in order to clarify the scope of technological assistance and the allocation of responsibility. The presentation also reviewed the expansion of public legal data and judicial decision disclosure, the development of trust infrastructure to verify AI-generated outputs through source identification and comparison with original documents, and institutional considerations for a legal tech framework that integrates industrial promotion, public data, user protection, and professional accountability.

The seminar concluded with a panel discussion moderated by Choi Kyung-jin, President of the Korea AI Law Society, under the theme "Advancing Legal Tech for All in the AI Era." Panelists included Judge Kwon Ji-eun of the Daegu High Court; Ahn Ki-soon, Director of the Legal AI Research Institute at Law&Company; Professor Sunyoung Oh of Soongsil University; Lee Eun-joo, Director of the AI Trustworthiness Research Center at Seoul National University; Chung Jong-gu, Managing Partner of Law Firm Roban; and Jung Ji-yeon, Secretary General of the Korea National Council of Consumer Organizations.

The panel discussion examined verification and accountability as central issues for legal tech in the AI era, alongside the reliability of public legal data, the verifiability of AI systems, legal education and professional training, access to justice, and institutional governance that considers both technological development and legal sovereignty. Participants also discussed the role of legal tech as a tool that supports, rather than replaces, professional legal judgment, as well as approaches to balancing innovation and the public interest through risk-based regulation and clearly defined responsibilities.

KISDI plans to continue expanding research and expert discussions on major AI policy issues and to facilitate policy dialogue involving government, industry, academia, and civil society on the responsible use of AI technologies and the development of the digital innovation ecosystem.

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KISDI Hosts Special Seminar on AI and Legal Tech