SEOUL, June 18 (Korea Bizwire) – A Supreme Court commission has decided to put together sentencing guidelines on animal abuse crimes that judges can refer to when delivering verdicts on such cases amid heightened social interest in animal welfare, officials said Tuesday. The Sentencing Commission reached the decision during a meeting Monday, officials said. The [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Rhee Keun, a South Korean volunteer fighter for Ukraine, was sentenced on Tuesday to a suspended jail term on charges of illegally entering Ukraine, defying a state travel ban to the war-stricken country. The Navy SEAL-turned-YouTuber entered Ukraine to join the Russia-Ukraine war as a volunteer fighter in March [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – In an unprecedented move, South Korea’s antitrust regulator, the Fair Trade Commission, has levied a record fine of 140 billion won against Coupang, the country’s largest e-commerce company, on allegations of unfairly favoring its own products over those of third-party sellers. The staggering penalty, the highest ever imposed [...]
SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean units of Google and Apple were among firms here fined for allegedly violating a law on location data collection, the telecom regulator said Wednesday. Google’s Korean unit was ordered to pay a fine of 3 million won (US$2,180) for allegedly violating a clause on disclosing its [...]
SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) – A Russian man, who entered South Korea two years ago after refusing to be drafted to fight against Ukraine, has been granted refugee status by a local court for the first time, judicial officials said Wednesday. The Seoul Administrative Court made the ruling on May 22 in the lawsuit [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – A former team leader at LG Display has received a final prison sentence for attempting to leak the company’s core technologies, including AMOLED display technology, to a Chinese competitor. The Supreme Court’s Second Division upheld the original ruling of one year and six months in prison and a fine of [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Over a dozen professors, who illegally tutored students preparing for music college entrance exams and gave high scores to them as examiners for practical tests, have been referred to the prosecution for a possible indictment, police said Monday. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said it has turned 14 music [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – In a legal dispute surrounding the planned closure of Myongji University’s Go department, the only such program in the world, a court has rejected a request by professors and students to suspend the university’s admission plan that would discontinue new student enrollment. According to legal circles, the Seoul Southern District [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – In an ongoing copyright battle over the “Legend of Mir” intellectual property jointly owned by game developers Actoz Soft and WeMade, South Korea’s Supreme Court has ruled that the case should be re-examined based on Chinese law, not domestic regulations. On June 6, it was reported that the Supreme Court’s [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) –In a landmark ruling that could upend one of South Korea’s biggest conglomerates, a court has ordered Chey Tae-won, the chairman of the SK Group, to pay his ex-wife a massive 1.38 trillion won as part of their divorce settlement. The staggering sum, among the largest divorce payouts worldwide, is [...]