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The constant responsibility of the legal profession in democratic societies is to define and clarify the positions of individuals, groups, and government and the way in which each relates to the other. In the United States, the legal profession provides for certain role positions to help define the laws of the land. What makes the legal profession especially unique is that, in this adversary system, the occupants of these role positions normally originate from a common background, legal training in a private or public institution of learning. This article discusses several issues related to Korean lawyers. Almost all Korean lawyers are identified as general practitioners, big city lawyers appear to be moving towards some form of specialization in that predominantly their work revolved around civil and real estate cases. Small city lawyers, on the other hand, appear to support the image of generalists. The virtual non-existence of legal firms in Korea has meant that the government agencies have been the major source of on the job training for the newly inducted Korean lawyer. This condition has led to the pattern of career development where many lawyers move into government service as prosecutors and/or judges before eventually retiring into private practice.