SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — An international tribunal ordered South Korea to pay the U.S. private equity firm Lone Star Funds US$216.5 million plus interest, officials said Wednesday, bringing an end to a decadelong legal battle surrounding its sell-off of a local bank. South Korea said it cannot accept the decision and will actively [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans living in remote areas such as on islands will now be able to give testimony on a remote basis without directly participating in court trials. Lee Eun-joo, a judge at the Incheon District Court, will remotely interrogate an individual living on Baengnyeong Island near the inter-Korean western [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Police plans to introduce an artificial intelligence (AI)-based black box video decoding system to better cope with fast-growing public interest reports on traffic law violations. The National Police Agency said Tuesday it is developing an AI system in collaboration with the Ministry of Science and ICT to automatically decode [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A district court has ruled that it cannot accept a conscientious objection to mandatory military service based on a recently joined Jehova’s Witness activity after several years of staying out of religious activities. The Seoul Central District Court on Thursday sentenced a 28-year-old man to 10 months in prison, suspended [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Friday upheld lower courts’ acquittal of a religious sect leader of charges that he obstructed the government’s response to COVID-19 outbreaks in 2020. Lee Man-hee, the 91-year-old founder of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, was indicted two years ago for allegedly underreporting the number of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court has ruled that an employee who slipped and died after heavy drinking with a boss should be recognized as a victim of a workplace accident, officials said Sunday. The Seoul Administrative Court sided with the family of the deceased worker in their litigation against the Korea [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a ruling that ordered steelmaker POSCO to grant the status of direct employees to 55 of its former subcontract workers. A total of 59 workers of POSCO’s subcontractors filed suits in 2011 and 2016, demanding the company recognize them as direct employees as [...]
SEOUL, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court has ruled that prison cells with less than two square meters of floor space per person violate human dignity and ordered the state to pay compensation to prisoners who suffered such conditions for the first time, officials said Friday. Two former inmates, who served prison terms [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court ruled that an administrative labor agency’s decision to recognize the drivers of the ride-hailing service Tada as workers should be canceled. The Seoul Administrative Court on Friday ruled in favor of SOCAR, the parent company of Tada operator VCNC, that filed a suit against the National [...]
WONJU, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A 38-year-old man was sentenced to one year in prison Monday for stalking his ex-girlfriend, including calling her 1,023 times in just 24 days, despite a restraining order from a court. The Wonju branch of the Chuncheon District Court also found the defendant, whose identity has been withheld, guilty [...]