SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean court on Thursday ordered the sale of a Japanese steel company’s assets here to compensate wartime forced labor victims in the second ruling of its kind. The Daegu District Court’s Pohang branch ordered Nippon Steel Corp. to sell off its securities of PNR, a joint venture [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Constitutional Court has ruled again unanimously that there is no problem with the Medical Service Act that allows only blind people to be eligible for an official license as massage therapists, officials said Thursday. A group of sighted massage parlor owners filed the petition claiming the law infringes [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that grandparents can legally adopt their own grandchild, even though the child’s biological parent is alive, when the arrangement is in the interest of the child’s welfare. The top court ruled in favor grandparents who filed an appeal to adopt their own grandchildren, [...]
SUWON, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — An appellate court on Thursday issued a guilty verdict for the operator of a website that names parents who refuse to pay child support, overturning a lower court’s ruling that found the operator innocent. The Suwon High Court delivered a suspended order to Koo Bon-chang, 58, to pay a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The top court has opened the way for the beneficiaries of those who commit suicide in a state of deep depression to be eligible for insurance payouts. Thus far, the beneficiaries of policyholders who commit suicide have been excluded from the payment of insurance money. According to the latest [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favor of workers at Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., who have fought the company for nine years demanding that regular periodic bonuses be counted as part of their “ordinary wage.” The top court ruled in favor of 10 employees who filed the appeal [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court has finalized suspended prison terms for four anti-American activists charged with trespassing into the U.S. ambassador’s residence in 2019 as part of a protest over defense cost-sharing talks between the two countries, court officials said Monday. The protesters, who are members of a progressive association of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The top court has launched a study on whether or not to introduce a process of discovery, a practice common in Anglo-American countries that enables both parties in a court dispute to inspect each other’s evidence in advance before court proceedings begin. The Supreme Court announced on Wednesday that [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Friday finalized a 13-year prison sentence for a former national short track speed skating coach charged with sexually assaulting an Olympic gold medalist. Cho Jae-beom, 40, was indicted in 2019 on charges of sexually assaulting Shim Suk-hee on 27 occasions at various training facilities from [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Thursday ordered the government to pay 10 million won (US$8,520) in compensation each to 44 people who were barred from the national teacher qualification exam last year due to their COVID-19 infections. The ruling by the Seoul Central District Court came after the Ministry of [...]