SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld another appellate court ruling that ordered a Japanese company to compensate the family of a late South Korean forced into wartime labor during Japan’s 1910-1945 colonial rule. The top court handed down the decision on a damages suit filed by the victim’s family [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Three people received rewards totaling over 100 million won (US$75,800) for providing information leading to the conviction or arrest of individuals involved in illegal drug crimes, officials said Wednesday. The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission said it marks the first time that cash rewards have been given to individuals [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Assembly was set to pass a special bill banning dog meat consumption Tuesday, paving the way for a legal ban on the practice that has fallen out of favor in recent decades. The ruling People Power Party (PPP) and the main opposition Democratic Party (DP) have jointly [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The Supreme Court of South Korea has made a landmark ruling that the admissibility of secretly recorded conversations as evidence in court cases may be denied if they significantly invade personal privacy. The judgment came in the case of an individual referred to only as Choi and three others, who [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) –The Supreme Court on Thursday finalized a guilty sentence for the operator of Bad Fathers, a website publicly blacklisting child support defaulters. The court upheld a lower court’s decision and finalized its suspended ruling of a fine of 1 million won ($763.65) for the 61-year-old website operator, Koo Bon-chang. [...]
GEOJE, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) –Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, currently known as Hanwha Ocean, is embroiled in a security breach involving the leak of submarine blueprints to Taiwan, with the South Korean police conducting an investigation. According to police reports on January 4, the South Gyeongsang Provincial Police Agency has begun an investigation into [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) –The bereaved family of a late prisoner who died of COVID-19 when a mass infection hit a detention center in Seoul has filed a damages suit, accusing the state of failing to protect high-risk inmates like him and neglecting the problem of overcrowding at the facility. The deceased, who was [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Prosecutors indicted a former employee of Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday on charges of leaking key semiconductor technologies of the tech giant to a Chinese company in return for money, officials said. The Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office indicted the employee surnamed Kim, who formerly served as a department [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Drug addicts and sexual offenders will be banned from working in the social service sectors from next year, the health ministry said Tuesday. Under the revised law, those who have not completed their sentences after being charged with drug addiction or sexual assault charges will be banned from providing [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has witnessed a startling increase in the number of doctors arrested for sexual crimes in the past five years, with nearly 800 cases reported. Data provided by Nam In-soon, a member of the National Assembly’s Health and Welfare Committee, indicates that from 2018 to 2022, a total of [...]