SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday the failure by bus companies to provide equipment to board wheelchairs of handicapped passengers was in violation of the Disability Discrimination Act. The top court reached the decision in the case launched by three handicapped plaintiffs against the central government, the Seoul and Gyeonggi [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean Bar Association (KBA) launched the operation of its own legal counseling platform after conflict with the private legal counseling application LawTalk. The KBA and the Seoul Bar Association announced on Wednesday that their lawyer information center ‘My Lawyer’ launched a beta service on Feb. 28 and will [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – A Seoul court on Thursday ruled partially in favor of a group of college entrance exam takers and their parents in a lawsuit seeking state compensation for an erroneous early “time is up” signal that shortened the exam time by two minutes. The exam time for the fourth session [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Wednesday ruled against South Korean victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor in a damages suit filed against Japanese companies, apparently on grounds that the cases’ statute of limitations has expired. The suit was filed against Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and Kumagai Gumi Co. by [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Courts in three cities on Friday ruled against the government’s plan to expand the COVID-19 vaccine pass system to include 12- to 18-year-olds, following recent similar decisions by courts in Seoul and Suwon. The Daejeon District Court ruled in favor of 96 plaintiffs, including teenagers, who opposed the planned [...]
ANYANG, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A former elementary school principal was sentenced to a two-year prison term Friday on charges of installing spy cameras inside the school, including a female teachers’ restroom, and secretly filming body parts. The 57-year-old former principal at the school in Anyang, 23 kilometers south of Seoul, allegedly fitted a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — An appeals court on Wednesday upheld the not-guilty verdicts of seven doctors and nurses at Ewha Womans University Medical Center in the case of deaths of four newborns by bacterial infection in December 2017. The Seoul High Court said it found the four doctors and three nurses at the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court finalized a four-year prison term Thursday for the wife of former Justice Minister Cho Kuk for college admission fraud involving their daughter and other charges, bringing an end to one of South Korea’s most divisive scandals in recent years. Chung Kyung-sim, a former professor of Dongyang [...]
DAEJEON, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The Supreme Court has dismissed a second appeal filed by Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries against an order to sell patent rights the company has in South Korea to compensate a victim of wartime forced labor, according to legal sources Tuesday. The top court dismissed Mitsubishi Heavy’s appeal against the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Friday ruled against a same sex couple demanding the same spousal health insurance coverage as heterosexual couples, saying matrimony in South Korea is still considered a union between a man and a woman. In February of last year, So Seong-wook filed the administrative lawsuit against [...]