SEOUL, Jun. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The Constitutional Court held an open hearing Thursday to decide whether the government’s hikes in the minimum wage infringe on private companies’ freedom of business activity stipulated in the Constitution. Legal representatives and experts for smaller firms and the labor ministry held a heated debate over whether the minimum [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Teenagers responsible for ring and run pranks and damaging doors were caught by the police. Seoul’s Seongbuk Police Station apprehended 11 teenagers for damaging public property. Each of them were fined 200,000 won (US$169). The teenagers are responsible for damaging the security entrance to an apartment building in Seoul’s [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision last year that religious and conscientious beliefs are to be considered valid reasons for refusing the military service mandate, an increasing number of courts across South Korea have been accepting conscientious objectors. However, there continue to be a number of cases where objectors [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Controversy is heating up over the pros and cons of installing closed-circuit television (CCTV) in operating rooms as a bill requiring the installation of CCTV cameras in operating rooms was scrapped a day after it was proposed. The medical community is at odds with the position of patient advocacy [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Hana Financial Group Inc., a major South Korean banking group, said Wednesday it has won an international arbitration suit against U.S. buyout group Lone Star over its purchase of KEB Hana Bank, formerly known as Korea Exchange Bank. Lone Star filed the suit at the International Court of Arbitration [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court has ruled that the practice of selling coupons for plastic surgery through online shopping malls and claiming a certain portion of the treatment cost as commission is illegal. The Supreme Court accepted prior court decisions in cases involving an online shopping mall representative and a plastic [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Busan is expected to pass South Korea’s first city ordinance to address loneliness, which is becoming a serious social problem. The Busan Metropolitan Council announced on Thursday that it will bring the legislation to the permanent committee for review today. The ordinance defines loneliness as solitary [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Gyeonggi Provincial Assembly will push for the establishment of regulations to guarantee longer “playtime” by adjusting the break times of kindergartens and elementary schools. Kim Kyung-hee, a member of the Assembly Committee on Education announced on Thursday that the assembly will propose an ordinance at the council’s interim [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Supreme Court ruled recently that the working age limit for ready-mix concrete truck drivers should be raised to over 60 years old. The decision comes after the Supreme Court’s consensus in February that the working age limit for physical laborers should be raised to the maximum of [...]
INCHEON, Apr. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean court said Thursday it has dismissed a lawsuit filed by an Angolan family seeking to apply for refugee status while being stranded for almost four months at Incheon airport, west of Seoul. The family, comprising Nkuka Lulendo, his wife and four children, said they came to [...]