About me
Shin Young Chung is a public interest lawyer at Advocates for Public Interest Law, a non-profit organization of lawyers who assist vulnerable migrants. Shin Young is also a member of Korea Transnational Corporations Watch (KTNC Watch), a coalition of labor, environmental, human rights, and public interest law organizations that monitors and addresses human rights abuses by multinational corporations based in Korea.
Shin Young has been actively engaged in research and advocacy through national and international human rights mechanisms for over 12 years. Her recent work has focused on investigating the human rights and environmental abuses of Korean companies in the supply chains of Korean investments in Indonesia, such as oil palm plantations and nickel mines, and urging the companies and the government to redress the harms they have caused throughout the supply chains.