INCHEON, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean court on Tuesday ruled in favor of local football fans who demanded compensation for football star Cristiano Ronaldo’s “no-show” incident in a much-awaited match last year. A sellout crowd of 65,000 filled the Seoul World Cup Stadium in July 2019 for an exhibition match between a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — There is a big difference between choosing a sentence for a murder case just by watching the news and issuing a ruling after watching a video of the case as a direct judge. According to the Supreme Court’s Sentencing Committee, people who used the content of the sentencing experience [...]
DAEJEON, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s intellectual property tribunal has recently ordered the cancellation of a cosmetics trademark that is similar to that of the K-pop group BTS. The Intellectual Property Trial and Appeal Board said Sunday it has ruled in favor of the band’s agency, Big Hit Entertainment, in a suit against [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Ending a legal fight that lasted over five years, South Korea’s top court said Monday it has reaffirmed a lower court’s ruling accepting a divorce claim filed by Lee Boo-jin, the eldest daughter of the family that owns Samsung. The Supreme Court upheld the lower court’s decision that ordered [...]
SUWON, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The operator of a website that names uncooperative parents refusing to pay child support was found not guilty of defaming the parents on Wednesday, in what was seen as a move prioritizing the site’s public value over privacy breaches. The Suwon District Court made the ruling in favor of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top court on Thursday ordered a lower court to reconsider its jail sentence for a former senior prosecutor who allegedly reassigned a junior colleague he sexually harassed to a remote area in an attempt to cover up the case, which later sparked the MeToo movement here. Seo [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A lawsuit filed by several South Korean victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery over a 2015 agreement between the two countries was settled Thursday in a court arbitration in which the government in Seoul agreed to deny the deal’s validity and vowed continued efforts to help regain the victims’ [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court handed down jail terms to key Samsung executives on Tuesday and detained them for sabotaging labor union activities at the top conglomerate’s customer service unit. The Seoul Central District Court sentenced Lee Sang-hoon, Samsung Electronics Co.’s chairman of board, to 18 months in prison for breaching [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld lower courts’ conviction of a male rapper indicted for sexually insulting a female rapper in his songs and concerts. Black Nut, the defendant rapper whose real name is Kim Dae-woong, was sentenced by the top court to an imprisonment of six months, suspended [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court ruled in favor of South Korea’s antitrust regulator Wednesday, saying that the watchdog’s 2016 decision to impose a record fine on U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. for unfair business practices was justifiable. The ruling will be a setback for Qualcomm, which challenged the Fair Trade Commission’s (FTC) [...]