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 [...]
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 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Constitutional Court has upheld the constitutionality of the law requiring military service for men born to South Korean parents temporarily staying overseas before they can renounce their Korean citizenship. According to legal sources Wednesday, all eight Constitutional Court judges rejected a 23-year-old man’s petition questioning the constitutionality of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The Constitutional Court has ruled that the school violence prevention law mandating a school bully’s apology to the victim and other countermeasures is constitutional, officials said Tuesday. The court made the decision 6-3, rejecting a middle school student’s petition claiming that the anti-school violence law infringes upon the freedom [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The Constitutional Court has ruled that a law mandating heavier punishment for car accidents within school zones conforms to the highest law, legal sources said Monday. The law, dubbed the “Min-sik Law,” requires tougher punishment of up to life imprisonment when an accident leads to the death of a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that the current law stipulating a prison sentence of at least seven years for those charged with trespassing into someone else’s house to commit sexual offenses is unconstitutional. The court unanimously made the ruling in response to separate petitions from the Jeonju District Court [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s antitrust regulator said Thursday it has decided to fine two bar associations 2 billion won (US$1.53 million) each for restricting their members from joining LawTalk, a platform that connects users and attorneys. The move came as the Korean Bar Association and the Seoul Bar Association ordered their [...]
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. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — LawTalk, an online service that connects clients and lawyers, is in trouble, after continued disputes with bar associations have led to a plunging number of members, hurting profitability. Industry sources said that Law&Company, operator of the mobile legal service app, has begun accepting voluntary retirement from employees, aiming to [...]
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 [...]