BORYEONGL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) —Three seafood vendors have been arrested by the Boryeong Coast Guard Station for falsely labeling Japanese red sea bream as domestic seafood. The vendors were suspected of violating the Country of Origin Labeling Act, and anyone who falsely labels the origin of a product can face up to seven years [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) —On March 10th, the Seoul Immigration Office announced the arrest of a 42-year-old Thai man for violating the Immigration Act. The man, identified only as “A,” was not merely in the country illegally; he was illegally modifying used motorcycles and selling them on social media in Korea. For over a [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s antitrust regulator said Tuesday it has decided to slap a fine of 42.1 billion won (US$31.8 million) on Google LLC and its regional arms for unfair business practices aimed at solidifying its dominance in the Korean mobile gaming app market. The punishment came as the U.S.-based global [...]
BUSAN, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) —The Busan Nambu Police Station reported on Monday that they have arrested four individuals, including a delivery driver, and booked nine others without detention for violating the Specialized Credit Finance Business Act by illegally copying credit cards handed over by customers. Delivery driver A and others are accused of using [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) who received a suspended prison sentence for leaking self-driving car technology to China is set to appeal the verdict after a year and eight months. The case was severely criticized by lawmakers during a parliamentary audit of [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Constitutional Court has ruled against a family registration law that practically bars biological fathers from registering the birth of children they have in extramarital relations with married women, legal sources said Thursday. The court recently delivered the ruling in a unanimous decision on a petition filed against Articles [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The legal battle between two major South Korean companies, Nongshim Group and Homeplus, has intensified over the use of the trademark ‘Mega’. Mega Mart, a supermarket chain owned by Nongshim, filed a lawsuit on March 2 against Homeplus, accusing the comany of trademark infringement for its newly introduced hypermarket [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Two victims of wartime forced labor by Japan have filed a lawsuit seeking to collect compensation from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ affiliate in South Korea, their legal representatives said Thursday. One surviving victim and bereaved family members of the other victim lodged the suit against Mitsubishi on Wednesday, asking the [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Some law firms in South Korea are flourishing under the slogan of “sentence-reducing package for sexual crimes” and provide an apology letter writing service for sexual criminals. Such services, however, turned out to have no effect in court. The Supreme Prosecutors Office analyzed 91 major sexual crime cases reported [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) – In recent years, the use of new kinds of drugs that can be easily synthesized and made has been on the rise in South Korea. Last year, it was reported that the number of these types of drugs seized by authorities, such as antipsychotics, had increased threefold from the [...]