SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean court on Tuesday overturned the decades-old conviction of a 72-year-old man who was imprisoned during the military regime for possessing Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital,” ruling that his prior confession had been coerced. The Seoul Southern District Court acquitted Jeong Jin-tae, who was a student at Seoul National [...]
GWANGJU, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean appeals court has acquitted a father and daughter who spent roughly 15 years behind bars for a notorious 2009 poisoning, concluding that the convictions rested on coerced, legally flawed confessions. The ruling lands in October 2025, under a new political landscape that has made criminal-justice safeguards [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean appellate court has ordered a hospital to pay approximately 620 million won (US$450,000) in damages to a family after finding that medical negligence during childbirth resulted in their son’s permanent disability. The ruling, handed down by the Suwon High Court recently, held that the hospital failed to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent Supreme Court ruling ordering a major Seoul hospital to pay significant unpaid overtime wages to its resident doctors is rippling through South Korea’s medical community, raising concerns about a surge in similar lawsuits. The decision, finalized last month, held that three former residents at Asan Medical Center were [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean court has overturned a disciplinary order against a dentist who prescribed and took hair-loss medication for himself, ruling the action did not constitute unlicensed medical practice. The Seoul Administrative Court said it had sided with the dentist, identified by his surname A, who filed a suit to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Supreme Court has upheld the acquittal of four former National Intelligence Service investigators accused of illegally recording private conversations during a domestic surveillance operation nearly a decade ago. The court affirmed a lower ruling last month that cleared the men of violating the country’s telecommunications privacy law, according [...]
JEJU, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A former high school teacher in Jeju has had his fine doubled on appeal after being convicted of making sexually inappropriate remarks to students during class. The Jeju District Court’s Criminal Division 2, presided over by Judge Oh Chang-hoon, on Thursday overturned a lower court’s ruling and imposed a fine [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 40 years after being forcibly sent to the notorious Samcheong Reeducation Camp under the military regime of Chun Doo-hwan, a victim has won a rare court-ordered compensation from the South Korean government. The Seoul Central District Court recently ruled that the state must pay 95 million won (about [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Supreme Court has ruled that resident doctors at general hospitals are entitled to overtime and night-shift pay under the Labor Standards Act, marking a major decision that reinforces labor protections for medical trainees. The court upheld a lower court ruling in favor of three former emergency medicine residents [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean court has ruled that only some imported nicotine liquids used in e-cigarettes are subject to tobacco-related taxes, drawing a distinction based on whether the nicotine was extracted from tobacco leaves or stems. The Seoul Administrative Court said on October 19 that it had partially upheld a [...]