SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — As South Korea’s National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) prepares for the final appeal hearing in its landmark ₩53.3 billion ($39 million) lawsuit against tobacco companies, a new survey shows that nearly two-thirds of Koreans believe cigarette makers should be held financially responsible for medical costs linked to lung cancer. The [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Assembly on Wednesday proposed a special counsel investigation into allegations that the Supreme Court interfered in the upcoming presidential election by abusing its judicial authority in the retrial of Democratic Party (DP) candidate Lee Jae-myung. The Assembly’s legislation and judiciary committee put forth the bill calling for [...]
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 [...]