Mr. Jeong Ho Shin and Mr. Chang Oh Ryu from the firm of Kim & Chang (Korea) visited our office. We discussed the Korean Trademark Office’s recent adoption of a partial refusal system, as well as their newly implemented re-examination policy and expedited examination procedure. Mr. Shin and Mr. Ryu also provided us with the details about what revisions to the IP law in Korea are currently being considered. Another topic they informed us about was how goods and services related to the “metaverse” should be described, and how similarity of these types of goods are evaluated, which was both enlightening and quite interesting.