SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A special counsel team said Friday it has summoned former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo to appear for questioning next week over allegations that a construction company chairman gifted a luxury necklace to former first lady Kim Keon Hee in exchange for his son-in-law’s appointment as Han’s chief of staff. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Former first lady asked for the Unification Church’s cooperation in backing a specific candidate in the People Power Party’s (PPP) leadership election in March 2023, an indictment written by special counsel Min Joong-ki’s team showed Monday. The team suspects that the Unification Church sought to request various policy favors from the administration [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The justice ministry on Monday submitted a request to the National Assembly for its consent to detain Rep. Kweon Seong-dong of the main opposition People Power Party embroiled in bribery allegations. Last week, special counsel Min Joong-ki’s team filed for an arrest warrant for Kweon suspected of receiving 100 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Former President Yoon Suk Yeol resisted a special counsel team’s attempt to execute detention warrants against him last month, according to surveillance footage reviewed by lawmakers of the ruling Democratic Party (DP) and the minor Rebuilding Korea Party on Monday. Lawmakers on the parliamentary legislation and judiciary committee, along [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – A special counsel team on Friday indicted former first lady Kim Keon Hee on charges of corruption and bribery, making her the first spouse of a former president to stand trial under custody. Kim, the wife of ousted former President Yoon Suk Yeol, was indicted with physical detention on [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A special counsel team said Friday it has indicted an associate of former first lady Kim Keon Hee under detention on charges of embezzlement. Known as the “butler” of the former first lady’s family, Kim Ye-seong’s indictment came after he was placed under arrest earlier this month on charges [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A special counsel team investigating alleged pressure and cover-up attempts in the death of a Marine conscript on Friday raided the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) and former senior prosecutors of the agency. According to the team, the move was aimed at securing evidence on why the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Supreme Court has overturned a lower court ruling that had partially held BMW Korea liable in a fatal sudden acceleration crash, dealing a setback to victims seeking recognition of manufacturing defects in such cases. The ruling, issued earlier this month, involved a 2018 accident in which a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s parliament has passed a law banning the use of smartphones during class time in elementary, middle and high schools, in an effort to curb youth overdependence on digital devices — though critics argue the measure could prove largely symbolic and even restrictive of students’ rights. The amendment [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Supreme Court has upheld a conviction against Taiwan’s Everlight Electronics for stealing advanced light-emitting diode (LED) technology from Seoul Semiconductor, marking a landmark ruling in the protection of industrial technologies. Seoul Semiconductor said Tuesday that the court recently confirmed earlier guilty verdicts under the nation’s Industrial Technology Protection [...]