GIMCHEON, South Korea, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – A district court has ordered a manufacturing firm to pay some 10.5 million won (US$7,740) in severance pay to an illegal migrant worker, citing photos and other evidence showing the employment. The company had the worker from Indonesia work without a formal contract between November 2019 and [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A man has been awarded nearly 900 million won (US$665,926) in state compensation after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned on spy charges more than five decades ago and recently acquitted by a court, a government gazette showed Monday. The Seoul High Court made a decision on Oct. 4, ordering [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Cabinet meeting on Thursday approved a new bill calling for tougher punishment for digital sex crimes using deepfake technologies. The revision of the sexual crimes punishment law calls for punishing people caught possessing, purchasing, storing or viewing deepfake sexual materials and other fabricated videos with up to three [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – An employee at Muan International Airport has successfully had their mental health issues recognized as a work-related injury, the Korea Workers’ Compensation and Welfare Service announced on October 4. The employee, identified only as “A” for privacy reasons, worked in airport security and suffered from panic disorder and severe depression [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – In a landmark decision, South Korea’s Supreme Court has ruled that designated drivers can be classified as workers under the country’s labor union law, potentially opening the door for collective bargaining rights based on their employment status. The ruling, handed down on September 27, marks the first time the nation’s [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court is set to deliver verdicts Monday for the Yongsan Ward office chief and a former chief of the Yongsan Police Station over the deadly 2022 crowd crush in the district of Itaewon. Park Hee-young, head of the Yongsan Ward office, and former Yongsan Police Station chief [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A court has sentenced Suga of K-pop superband BTS to a fine of 15 million won (US$11,469) on charges of driving an electric scooter under the influence of alcohol, sources said Monday. Late at night on Aug. 6, police officers found Suga trying to get up after falling off [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – A legal provision designed to ensure fair trials has become the center of a contentious debate in South Korea. The rule, which allows for the reassignment of judges in certain circumstances, is increasingly being scrutinized for potential abuse. Critics argue that it’s being exploited as a strategy to change presiding [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – A Seoul court on Friday dismissed a suit filed by U.S.-based hedge fund Elliott seeking some 26.7 billion won (US$20.2 million) in delayed interest from Samsung C&T as a fallout of the 2015 merger of two Samsung units. Elliott, which owned a 7 percent stake in Samsung C&T, led a [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) –The Supreme Court on Friday overturned a lower court’s acquittal of a Syrian man accused of inciting participation in the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group by uploading videos created by IS, sending the case back for retrial. The 39-year-old Syrian individual, who previously worked at a junkyard in Pyeongtaek, some [...]