SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent law revision in South Korea has extended legal effect and admissibility previously limited to paper documents to electronic documents as well. The Ministry of Science and ICT and the Ministry of Justice jointly announced that the revised Basic Law on Electronic Documents and Transactions would take effect [...]
INCHEON, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — An appeals court on Friday upheld a lower court’s six-month prison sentence for an Incheon cram school teacher indicted for lying about his job and whereabouts after testing positive for the new coronavirus and subsequently causing some 60 infections. The Incheon District Court’s appellate division said that a district [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — An appeals court has ruled in favor of a non-religious conscientious objector who was indicted for dodging the draft. The Uijeongbu District Court said Monday that it overturned a lower court ruling in the case of a man who was indicted for violation of the nation’s military service law. [...]
GWANGJU, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A court on Monday found former President Chun Doo-hwan guilty of defaming a late activist who testified to having witnessed Chun’s troops shooting from helicopters on pro-democracy demonstrators in Gwangju. The Gwangju District Court endorsed the claims of late priest Cho Pius that there were shootings at civilians from [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top court said Friday it has upheld a lower court’s ruling in favor of a Chinese company in a dispute with a Korean desert cafe chain over a licensing fee. The Supreme Court confirmed the previous ruling that ordered Sulbing, one of the country’s biggest dessert cafe [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Thursday sentenced the mastermind of one of the country’s largest online sex trafficking rings to 40 years in prison. The Seoul Central District Court found Cho Ju-bin guilty of violating laws to protect minors from sexual abuse and of operating a criminal ring to make [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A court on Friday ordered a sports agency to compensate fans for Cristiano Ronaldo’s no-show at a friendly football match in Seoul last year. The Seoul Central District Court ruled in favor of 162 plaintiffs who sued The Fasta, which organized the exhibition game between Italy’s Juventus and South [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court handed down a ruling Friday against the state health insurer in its smoking-related damages suit with three major tobacco companies, citing no direct “legal” links between its increased financial burden and their businesses. The Seoul Central District Court rejected the compensation request filed by the National [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court has ordered a major online shopping mall to compensate more than 2,400 customers 100,000 won (US$88) each for a data leak in 2016, legal sources said Sunday. The Seoul Central District Court handed a partial victory to the customers of Interpark Corp., who had demanded 300,000 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul taxi driver who caused public outrage by blocking an ambulance transferring an emergency patient was handed a two-year prison term by a local court on Wednesday. The Seoul Eastern District Court sentenced the 31-year-old taxi driver to two years in prison on charges of assault, fraud and [...]