SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean court has ruled that the dismissal of a university professor who made sexist remarks to his students, such as “getting married is getting a job,” was justified. The Seoul Administrative Court said Sunday that it had ruled against a plaintiff in a lawsuit filed against a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Group is facing yet another headwind at home as South Korea’s top court ordered a review of a suspended sentence for its de facto leader in a bribery case Thursday, adding to the woes that the nation’s largest conglomerate is dealing with. Lee Jae-yong, vice chairman of Samsung [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top court on Thursday ordered a lower court to reconsider its suspended jail sentence for Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong in a massive bribery scandal that led to the ouster of former President Park Geun-hye. The de facto leader of the country’s top conglomerate was initially sentenced to [...]
POHANG, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A damages suit involving the earthquake in Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province on November 15, 2017 was filed. The trial is finally starting one year and nine months after the quake, as a government research team announced belatedly that ‘the operation of the geothermal power plant brought about an earthquake’, and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Friday ordered Volkswagen, Audi and their Korean unit to compensate local consumers for mental distress caused by their emission manipulation scheme and improper recalls. The Seoul Central District Court issued a ruling on a lawsuit filed by some Korean owners of Audi and Volkswagen cars [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean court’s siding with Facebook over its responsibility for slower data connection puts the onus on network operators, setting a favorable precedent for global IT firms when negotiating network usage fees with local telcos, market watchers said Friday. The Seoul Administrative Court on Thursday ruled in favor [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean Supreme Court has ruled that a trademark registered by local car accessory manufacturer Bullsone Co. infringes on the trademark of Austrian energy drink manufacturer Red Bull GmbH. The Supreme Court overturned an earlier decision from the Patents Court ruling against Red Bull, which claimed that Bullsone [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Legal specialists will compete with Legal artificial intelligence (AI) in conducting legal reviews of various contracts, raising the possibility of AI technology replacing humans in the field of legal affairs. The Korea Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (KAAIL) and the Judicial Policy Research Institute will host a conference [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign criminals being detained or arrested in South Korea will be presented with a warrant written in their own language under a government bid to prevent discrimination against aliens in legal proceedings, prosecutors said Wednesday. The Supreme Prosecutors’ Office (SPO) said that prosecutors will use an arrest warrant translated [...]
GWANGJU, Jul. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A civic group supporting Korean victims of wartime forced labor on Tuesday filed an application with a local court against Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. to order the sale of the Japanese firm’s assets seized in South Korea. The civic group announced the move against the Japanese firm at [...]