SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A flight attendant who passed away from leukemia after years of flying over Arctic routes belatedly received industrial accident recognition. The Committee on Occupational Diseases Judgment, which operates under the umbrella of the state-run Korea Workers’ Compensation & Welfare Service, admitted last week that there was a causal relationship between [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul family court on Thursday sided with the ex-husband of Gerhard Schroeder’s South Korean wife and ordered the former German chancellor to partially compensate the man for destroying his marriage. The man, whose identity was withheld, filed a lawsuit in 2018 seeking 100 million won (US$81,708) in compensation, [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A court decision against the immigration office’s refusal to review a refugee status application from an African man has been finalized, court records showed Monday. The Seoul High Court on April 21 dismissed the Incheon International Airport immigration office’s appeal against a lower court ruling that deemed its rejection [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A woman who abused her adopted daughter to death was sentenced to life in prison on Friday in a fatal child abuse case that shocked the country. The Seoul Southern District Court ruled that the woman, surnamed Jang, intentionally harmed her daughter, named Jung-in, dismissing her claim that the [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean court has ruled that even when a worker’s overtime hours are not longer than the standard level designated by the government, his or her death can be acknowledged as an occupational accident as long as there was significant workplace stress. The Seoul Administrative Court recently ruled [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top court said Sunday it has upheld a lower court ruling that found a former Asiana Airlines chief guilty of rejecting menstrual leave for flight attendants. Kim Soo-cheon was indicted in 2017 for declining to approve 138 requests for period leave by 15 flight attendants between May [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean victims of wartime sexual slavery lost their second lawsuit against the Japanese government Wednesday, suffering a setback in their efforts to hold Tokyo accountable for war crimes. The Seoul Central District Court dismissed the case brought by 20 plaintiffs, including surviving victims forced to work in front-line [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for causing a car accident under the influence that resulted in the death of a Taiwanese student studying here last year, a Seoul court said Thursday. The Seoul Central District Court on Wednesday handed down the prison term to [...]
SEOUL, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent court decision ruled that the seat structure designed for disabled persons in public buses, which obliges them sit sideways rather than facing forward, amounts to an act of discrimination. The Supreme Court announced Thursday the conclusion of a lawsuit filed by a disabled person against a transportation [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court has ordered North Korea and leader Kim Jong-un to compensate a family member of a South Korean who was abducted to the North during the 1950-53 Korean War. The plaintiff, identified by his surname Choi, filed a damages suit in December over the policeman father who [...]