SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — An appellate court on Wednesday upheld a four-year prison sentence for the wife of former Justice Minister Cho Kuk over academic fraud. The Seoul High Court found Chung Kyung-sim, a professor of Dongyang University, guilty of all charges related to the unfair college admission of her daughter and upheld [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean court on Wednesday ruled against a victim of forced wartime labor in Japan in a damages suit launched against Japan’s Mitsubishi Materials Corp. citing the expiration of the case’s statute of limitation. The Seoul Central District Court ruled against the surviving family of the late victim, [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — An appeals court on Friday upheld a lower court’s decision to nullify the bulk of financial penalties imposed in 2017 by the South Korean government on the local unit of German automaker BMW for falsifying documents on gas emissions required for domestic sales. The Seoul High Court approved the [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The Constitutional Court ruled that banning the use of cellphones while driving does not violate the constitution. The court reached a consensus that a provision stipulated in the Road Traffic Act that bans the use of mobile phones while driving is in alignment with the constitution, the court said [...]
BUSAN, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A court sentenced former Busan Mayor Oh Keo-don to three years in prison Tuesday for sexually assaulting female employees at work, broadening the interpretation of injury to include psychological trauma. The Busan District Court convicted him of sexually assaulting two female employees using his power and injuring one of [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A revised law that practically forced a leading ride-hailing service out of business last year complied with the country’s Constitution, a court ruled Thursday. The justices of the Constitutional Court unanimously ruled as constitutional the law limiting the Tada service to rent out its vans only for tourism purposes [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The top court on Thursday confirmed a not-guilty verdict for a conscientious objector who avoided his mandatory military service due to personal beliefs, in the first case of its kind. The Supreme Court upheld the appellate court’s acquittal of the man, a self-identifying “queer feminist,” indicted on charges of [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Public anger has grown this week after a court dismissed a group of forced labor victims’ damages suit against Japanese firms, with some accusing the judge of injecting his personal beliefs into the ruling and demanding that he be impeached. The Seoul Central District Court dismissed the case Monday, [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A local court on Monday dismissed a damages suit launched by 85 South Korean victims of wartime forced labor in Japan and their families against 16 Japanese companies, saying the plaintiffs don’t have litigation rights. The Seoul Central District Court said South Korean wartime forced laborers cannot claim individual [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top court has ruled in favor of residents living near a Naver Corp.’s main office building who filed a suit for compensation claiming that they suffered from the light reflected on the glass exterior surface of the building. The ruling made it possible to sue for prevention [...]