SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A wave of consumer complaints is erupting over how some South Korean law firms are handling group lawsuits related to the high-profile hacking incident involving SK Telecom. Critics say certain firms are aggressively soliciting participants and collecting upfront fees without adequate explanation—only to later demand detailed evidence of damages, [...]
CHUNCHEON, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) – A coalition of environmental groups opposed to the controversial Mount Seorak cable car project has filed an emergency injunction seeking to suspend the development, citing irreversible ecological damage. The coalition, known as the National Action to Protect Mount Seorak National Park, submitted a request to the Chuncheon District Court on [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Display Co., a global leader in display panel manufacturing, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the United States against Chinese firm Tianma Microelectronics Co. to protect its intellectual property, according to industry sources Monday. According to the sources, the South Korean company filed the suit Friday (U.S. [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of drug offenders in South Korea surpassed the 20,000 mark for the second consecutive year in 2024, with people in their 20s and 30s accounting for over 60 percent of the total, data showed Sunday. Last year, a total of 23,022 people were apprehended for drug-related offenses, [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court has ruled in favor of Samsung Electronics in a high-profile lawsuit filed by over 1,800 Galaxy smartphone users, who claimed the company misled them by pre-installing software that throttled device performance without adequate disclosure. In a ruling delivered Wednesday, the Seoul Central District Court dismissed the [...]
SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Police issued a third summons to former President Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday to appear for questioning over charges related to his botched martial law bid. Yoon was ordered to appear by next Thursday after he snubbed two previous summonses to appear June 5 and earlier in the day, [...]
SEOUL, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A long-running legal battle between South Korean human rights activists and Google over personal data transparency has come to an end after 11 years, with both parties agreeing to a court-proposed settlement. Under the terms of the agreement, Google will provide South Korean users with improved access to their personal [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s National Tax Service (NTS) has launched an aggressive crackdown on 710 chronic tax delinquents who collectively owe more than 1 trillion won (approximately US$730 million), revealing widespread use of fraudulent schemes to hide assets and evade payment. The offenders, flagged for property tracking investigations, used tactics ranging [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Prosecutors on Tuesday indicted a duo accused of blackmailing South Korean football star Son Heung-min with fake pregnancy claims to extort money from him. The Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office said it indicted a woman in her 20s on charges of extortion and attempted extortion, and a man in [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Cabinet on Tuesday approved bills to appoint special counsels to probe a botched martial law bid by former President Yoon Suk Yeol and corruption allegations against his wife, former first lady Kim Keon Hee. President Lee Jae-myung presided over the Cabinet meeting that also approved a special counsel [...]