SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court’s ruling in favor of workers at Kia Motors Corp. that fixed bonuses should be counted as standard wages, closing the curtain on the almost decadelong legal battle. The Supreme Court confirmed that the automaker should pay its workers back wages, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — An appellate court on Thursday upheld a lower court’s conviction of eight former employees of Samsung Securities Co. indicted for selling “ghost” stocks mistakenly paid to them as dividends in 2018. The Seoul Southern District Court’s appellate division affirmed suspended prison sentences ranging from one to 1 1/2 years [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — An appellate court on Monday acquitted Lee Sang-hoon, former chairman of Samsung Electronics Co.’s board of directors, of disrupting union activities at a Samsung affiliate in violation of labor laws, overturning a jail sentence by a lower court. Lee and 31 other former and incumbent Samsung executives and officials [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Civic groups have petitioned the Constitutional Court to declare that the government’s massive collection of mobile phone data for contact tracing to stem the spread of COVID-19 was unconstitutional. The five groups led by two influential civic groups — MINBYUN-Lawyers for a Democracy Society and People’s Solidarity for Participatory [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Wednesday ruled in favor of Samsung Electronics Co. in a class action suit filed by more than 500 consumers over battery explosions of the tech giant’s ill-fated Galaxy Note 7 smartphones released in 2016. The Seoul Central District Court said it rejected the indemnity claim [...]
INCHEON, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The CEO of GM Korea Co. and four other executives at the Korean unit of the American carmaker will stand trial on charges of illegally hiring about 1,700 manufacturing workers on secondment, prosecutors said Tuesday. The district prosecutors’ offices in Incheon and Changwon said five GM Korea executives, including [...]
SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed by a consumer group seeking to invalidate airlines’ policies to void mileage points after 10 years. The Citizens United for Consumer Sovereignty sued Korean Air Lines Co. and Asiana Airlines Inc. in February 2019, arguing their expiration rules encroach on collectors’ [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A Japanese man who became the first foreigner arrested by South Korean police in May for violating mandatory self-isolation rules aimed at containing the coronavirus was freed on Wednesday after being given a suspended jail sentence by a local court. The Seoul Western District Court sentenced the 23-year-old Japanese [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Two South Korean men who were once prisoners of war (POWs) taken to North Korea during the 1950-53 Korean War on Tuesday won a landmark damage suit filed against North Korea and its leader Kim Jong-un for the forced labor they endured while in captivity there. The Seoul Central [...]
SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Friday ruled in favor of a Korean adoptee who filed a lawsuit last year to find her biological father in a landmark ruling that acknowledged adoptees’ legal rights to find their family roots. After the Seoul Family Court announced that the plaintiff, Kang Mee-sook, is [...]