SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Thursday approved a 42-year prison sentence for Cho Ju-bin, the mastermind of a notorious online sex blackmail ring. The top court also confirmed lower courts’ order that Cho has to wear an electronic bracelet for 30 years, pay a forfeiture of 100 million won (US$90,000), [...]
DAEJEON/SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A court ruled Thursday in favor of a deceased transgender solider in a suit filed to get the Army’s decision to discharge her repealed, a landmark ruling that could have deep repercussions in the way South Korean society treats sexual minorities. The Daejeon District Court said that the military [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tattooists once again filed a petition with the Constitutional Court Monday against the medical law that requires tattooing to be conducted only by licensed medical personnel. A total of 153 tattooists associated with the Korea Fashion Tattoo Association and the Korea Tattoo Federation said Article 27 of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Over six out of 10 suspended sentences handed down for sex crimes cited “sincere remorse” by the offenders in offering lenient rulings, a ruling party lawmaker said Monday. According to Rep. Park Sung-joon of the ruling Democratic Party, the number of sex crime cases between 2016 and 2020 that [...]
SEOUL/TOKYO, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top court has confirmed a lower court’s order to seize Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.’s assets here to compensate wartime forced labor victims, judicial officials said Monday. The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the Japanese company’s appeal of a court order to seize its six patent rights and [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Wednesday again dismissed a damages suit filed by the bereaved family of a victim of World War II forced labor against a Japanese company citing expiration of the statute of limitations. Four children of the late worker, surnamed Jeong, filed a suit in April 2019 [...]
ANYANG, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The families of four forced labor victims have withdrawn a request to seize what was believed to be assets of Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. in South Korea, legal sources said Thursday. The families recently filed the withdrawal request with the Anyang branch of the Suwon District Court, just [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — An appellate court on Wednesday upheld an eight-year prison sentence for a drunk driver who killed a Taiwanese student in a deadly car accident last year. The appellate division of the Seoul Central District Court handed down the prison term to the 52-year-old man, surnamed Kim, maintaining a lower [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s biggest accommodation booking app Yanolja has defeated its industry rival Good Choice in a civil suit launched over an alleged leak of confidential company information, judicial officials said Monday. The Seoul Central District Court has ordered Good Choice Company (GCC), the operator of the namesake hotel reservation [...]
ANYANG, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean court has ordered the seizure of Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.’s assets here to provide compensation to forced wartime labor victims’ families, according to judicial sources Thursday. According to Haemaru Lawfirm, the Anyang branch of Suwon District Court, just south of Seoul, recently ordered the seizure of [...]