SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The top court has ruled that if a company installs CCTV cameras to monitor work scenes without the consent of employees, workers covering the cameras cannot be penalized. The Supreme Court overturned the initial sentence of a 700,000 won (US$553) fine imposed on three officials of a labor union [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — An appellate court ruled Thursday in favor of Steve Yoo, a Korean American singer, in a lawsuit he filed to reverse the South Korean government’s decision to deny him an entry visa for renouncing his Korean citizenship to evade mandatory military service. The Seoul High Court ruled that even [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Employees of KT Corp., South Korea’s No. 2 wireless carrier, have lost a lawsuit against their employer, claiming that their salaries were reduced due to the company’s peak wage system. The suit, filed by some 1,300 KT employees seeking the cancellation of the peak wage system, had its original [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A court on Monday dismissed a lawsuit filed by a group of doctors who claimed that graduates of Hungarian medical schools are ineligible for the nation’s state-run medical licensing exam. The Seoul Administrative Court rejected the lawsuit filed by a medical group called Doctors for Fair Society against the [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Monday ruled that secretly entering a partner’s smartphone password to access information about their past relationships can lead to criminal punishment. The Seoul Central District Court imposed a suspended fine of 300,000 won (US$230) to a 30-year-old woman charged with unauthorized access to electronic records. [...]
SEOUL, June 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has faced significant setbacks in the Korea v. Elliott Investment Management investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) case. According to a press release titled “Decision on the Elliott International Investment Dispute Settlement (ISDS) Case” by the justice ministry on Friday, which provides a summary of the June 20 judgment, [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a retrial of a damages suit against the Korean Metal Workers’ Union regarding its involvement in a violent strike at SsangYong Motor Co. in 2009, seeking a reduction of compensation by one-third. Lower courts had ordered the union to pay 3.31 billion won [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The liability of each striker should be counted individually in a damages suit over a labor strike, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday, a landmark decision expected to set the tone for similar labor dispute cases in the future. The ruling came in a damages suit filed by Hyundai Motor [...]
GWANGJU, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A regional court has ruled a Cambodian activist who led pro-democracy movements for his home country in South Korea should be granted refugee status, legal sources said Wednesday. The district court in Gwangju, 270 kilometers south of Seoul, has sided with the Cambodian asylum-seeker and nullified the local immigration [...]
BUSAN, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) — An appellate court sentenced the so-called spin kick assailant in the southeastern port city of Busan to 20 years in prison on Monday amid growing social resentment over his brutal attacks on a female stranger apparently for the purpose of rape. The Busan High Court made the ruling for [...]