JEJU, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – A court on the southern island of Jeju on Tuesday upheld the local government’s revocation of the business license of what would have been the nation’s first for-profit hospital. The operator of the Greenland International Medical Center, owned by a Chinese real estate developer, filed a lawsuit in May 2019 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A salaried worker, who died in 2018 after traveling about 1,000 kilometers every week between home and work for about six months, has been recognized as a victim of an industrial accident by a local court, judicial sources said Monday. The Seoul Administrative Court ruled in favor of the [...]
SUWON, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A thief caught stealing eggs earlier this year due to economic hardships caused by the coronavirus outbreak has been sentenced by a local court to one year behind bars, the court said Friday. The 47-year-old man was indicted for stealing a carton of eggs from a low-cost accommodation facility [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean courts have issued a series of tough rulings against used car fraud rings. In an appeal case for a man who was indicted for criminal group activity and fraud, the Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the original sentence in which the accused was found not guilty. The [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A current law banning multiple nationality holders who are 18 years and older from renouncing Korean citizenship unless military service obligations are fulfilled does not conform to the Constitution, the Constitutional Court of Korea said Thursday. The court said some clauses of the Nationality Act imposing obligations and restraints [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will propose revisions to the existing laws to allow abortion until the 14th week of pregnancy, judicial sources said Tuesday. They said the justice ministry will announce its plan to revise the Criminal Act and the Mother and Child Health Act on Wednesday as a follow-up to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The legal grounds for punishing interference with ambulances has been created, the fire agency said Saturday. The National Fire Agency said the revisions to the laws related to relief operations passed the National Assembly last month, which are expected to be made public this month. The revised laws stipulate [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A Jehovah’s Witness who objected military service based on his religious faith has been convicted for violation of the Military Service Act. The grounds for the guilty verdict was that he previously enjoyed playing online shooting games, killing other gamers without feeling any pangs of conscience. For the man [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Sentencing Commission on Tuesday proposed amendments to the sentencing guidelines for producers of sexual exploitation content involving minors. The commission, affiliated with the Supreme Court of Korea, recommended a court issue a tougher punishment of up to 29 years and three months in jail term for a serious, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Overturning an appellate court’s ruling, the Supreme Court on Thursday annulled a decision by the former Park Geun-hye government to outlaw a progressive teachers’ union for accepting a handful of fired teachers as its members, opening the way for the union to regain its legal status. The full bench [...]