DAEJEON, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) –An Afghan national identified only as Mr. A who attempted to kill an elderly couple in a fit of rage after being denied refugee status has been sentenced to 14 years in prison in South Korea. According to legal circles, the 35-year-old man submitted a letter to the Supreme Court [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea seems to have opted for a workable solution to the longstanding row with Japan over how to compensate victims of wartime forced labor as part of efforts to normalize bilateral economic cooperation and bolster trilateral security partnerships involving the United States, experts here said Monday. The Yoon [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) –South Korea and Japan have been in talks on the potential lifting of Japan’s yearslong restrictions on exports of key industry materials to South Korea as they have worked to resolve the issue of compensating victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor, Seoul’s industry chief said Monday. In 2019, Tokyo imposed [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) on Thursday recommended recognizing a transgender soldier, who died in an apparent suicide after forcible discharge from service, as having died in the line of duty. The Army earlier decided to classify the death of the soldier, Byun Hee-soo, as a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court has ordered the state to compensate the family of a soldier who died on duty after failing to receive proper treatment for leukemia, legal sources said Thursday. The private first class, Hong Jeong-ki, started showing symptoms, such as vomiting, in March 2016, just seven months after [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — An appellate court on Tuesday ruled in favor of a same-sex couple demanding the same spousal coverage from the state health insurance program as heterosexual couples. The Seoul High Court delivered the landmark decision, overturning a lower court’s ruling that marriage in South Korea is considered a union between [...]
INCHEON, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Russian asylum seekers who have come to South Korea after fleeing arbitrary enlistment to fight in the war in Ukraine may become eligible for refugee status. The Incheon District Court on Tuesday ruled in favor of two of the three Russians who filed a lawsuit against the head of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Tuesday ruled in favor of a Vietnamese national seeking compensation from South Korea’s government after losing family members and suffering wounds when South Korean marines killed dozens of civilians in 1968 during the Vietnam War. The Seoul Central District Court’s ruling marks the first time [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Using handcuffs on suspects during police questioning should meet clear requirements, the human rights watchdog said Tuesday. A mother of two children filed a petition with the National Human Rights Commission of Korea, claiming the two were handcuffed for seven and four hours, respectively, when they were arrested for [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Social and Labor Affairs Committee of the Jogye Order, South Korea’s largest Buddhist sect, on Tuesday held a prayer ceremony near the Myanmar Embassy in Seoul wishing for democracy in the Southeast Asian country. Ven. Hyemun prayed for the souls of those sacrificed by the Myanmar military junta, [...]