CHUNCHEON, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Residents of Yeongwol County in Gangwon Province are strongly opposing a plan to set up a solar power plant in the area. A total of 41 residents from county’s Yongseok-ri Village filed a lawsuit against the mayor of Yeongwol last Friday to put a stop to the construction plan. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Lawmakers have submitted a bill that would allow broader access to private information, on the condition that the data is tightly veiled under pseudonyms, parliamentary officials said Tuesday. Signed on by 10 legislators, the bill proposes allowing data holders to release personal information for use other than intended purposes [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A former chief justice of the Supreme Court was indicted Monday on more than 40 counts relating to an alleged massive abuse of judicial power under his leadership. The indictment of Yang Sung-tae comes almost three weeks after the court approved a warrant to place him under pre-indictment detention. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Supreme Court has found that a 2009 penalty decision by the state antitrust watchdog against U.S. Qualcomm Inc. was not completely lawful, sending the case back to a lower court for reconsideration, court officials said Monday. The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) fined the global chipmaker 273.2 billion [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean court has ruled that 1+1 purchasing events cannot be seen as ‘exaggerated advertisements’ if the price of the product is cheaper during the event. Seoul High Court, in a case filed by hypermarket chain operators Homeplus Co. and Homeplus Stores Co. against the Fair Trade Commission [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — An appeals court on Friday found a former governor of South Chungcheong Province guilty of sexually abusing his then secretary, reversing the highly debated acquittal by a lower court in one of South Korea’s high profile Me Too cases. The Seoul High Court sentenced An Hee-jung to 3 1/2 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The justice ministry said Thursday that it has decided to strictly control parole for habitual drunk drivers, scammers and sex offenders in future. “We’ve decided to limit parole, in principle, for offenders who repeatedly commit (offences of) drunk driving, fraud, sexual abuse and family violence in a bid to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean civic group on Wednesday filed a petition against the local unit of McDonald’s with the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office, demanding criminal punishment for the American fast food chain on suspicion of covering up contaminated food supplies. The group, named Political Mamas, held a news conference [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Seo Ji-hyeon, a public prosecutor who ignited a nationwide “Me Too” movement last year with her disclosure of sexual misconduct by a former senior prosecutor, said Thursday the conviction of her abuser showed that justice prevails without fail. Seo said in a news conference in Seoul that the court’s [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul appellate court on Friday upheld damages claims by another group of South Koreans forced into wartime labor and ordered a Japanese firm to compensate them. The Seoul High Court retained the lower court’s ruling that ordered the Nachi-Fujikoshi Corp. to pay 80 million won to 100 million [...]