GANGNEUNG, South Korea, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The family of a 12-year-old boy who died in a suspected sudden unintended acceleration (SUA) incident in late 2022 has lost a civil lawsuit against the vehicle manufacturer, underscoring the legal challenges consumers face in proving vehicle defects under South Korea’s current product liability law. The accident occurred in [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A court of appeals has overturned a lower court’s decision that strong earthquakes that struck Pohang in 2017 and 2018 were caused by a geothermal power plant then under construction in the southeastern port city, judicial officials said Tuesday. Pohang, 271 kilometers southeast of Seoul, was hit hard by [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Prosecutors have ordered former first lady Kim Keon Hee to appear for questioning this week over allegations of influence-peddling in the 2022 parliamentary by-elections, legal sources said Monday. Kim, the wife of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol, was recently sent a summons by the Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office [...]
SUWON, South Korea, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — An appellate court on Monday upheld a lower court’s ruling that sentenced the wife of Democratic Party (DP) presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung to a fine of 1.5 million won (US$1,068) on charges of election law violations. The Suwon High Court handed down the sentence for Kim Hye-kyung, [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Prosecutors on Friday demanded a two-year prison term for a man accused of beating a reporter during a violent mob attack at the Seoul Western District Court earlier this year. The 37-year-old man, surnamed Park, was indicted on charges of kicking and tugging at the camera of a video [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Judges nationwide will hold an extraordinary meeting later this month to discuss the controversy surrounding presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung’s election law violation case, a judges’ association said Friday. The meeting will be held May 26 at the Judicial Research and Training Institute in Goyang, northwest of Seoul, after the [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Judges nationwide will hold an extraordinary meeting to discuss the controversy surrounding presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung’s election law violation case, a judges’ association said Friday. The meeting was requested “due to the need to discuss and organize our position on suspicions about the courts’ political neutrality and the issue [...]
SUWON, South Korea, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — An appeals court on Wednesday sentenced a Chinese former employee of SK hynix Inc. to five years in prison for leaking the company’s core semiconductor technology. The Suwon High Court handed down the sentence, along with a 30 million-won (US$21,500) fine, to the 37-year-old defendant for leaking [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The state-run Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) submitted a request for arbitration with an international mediation court Wednesday regarding a conflict with parent company Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) over a payment dispute involving additional construction costs for a nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The family of the late actress Kim Sae-ron on Wednesday filed a complaint with the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency against actor Kim Soo-hyun, accusing him of violating the Child Welfare Act and making false accusations. Bu Ji-seok, the family’s legal representative, discussed this latest legal action during a press [...]