SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced on Tuesday a revised law on suicide prevention, which makes sharing suicidogenic information online illegal. If caught distributing such information, the individual responsible will be sentenced to jail time. The revised law will take effect in six months, on July 16. The [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A revision of the Labor Standards Act, which prohibits bullying in the workplace, was proclaimed Tuesday, the Ministry of Employment and Labor said. The revised law specifically bans bullying from people in more senior positions, the ministry said. It defines the prohibited workplace bullying as an act by an [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will now reveal the names of lawyers and the law firms for each ruling posted on the Supreme Court website. The Supreme Court has been allowing visitors to search for criminal rulings on the website as well as other rulings from [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Thursday ordered the local unit of BMW AG to pay a fine of 14.5 billion won (US$12.9 million) for falsifying documents on gas emissions required by the South Korean government for domestic sales. Finding the automaker guilty of violating the customs law, the Seoul Central [...]
POHANG, South Korea/Tokyo, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A local court said Tuesday that it has approved a request by South Korean plaintiffs to seize Korean assets of Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. over Tokyo’s wartime forced labor. The move came as the firm has refused to follow an order by South [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The parliamentary passage in late November of a new bill aimed at toughening the punishment for drunk driving appears to have had little effect in discouraging driving under the influence (DUI) among South Koreans. The Supreme Prosecutors’ Office said Friday that 91 drivers were arrested and 2,511 others indicted [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Patients suffering from pulmonary diseases will be able to receive lung transplant operations using organs donated by living people, the government said Friday. The Ministry of Health and Welfare said a revision to the relevant law was passed on Dec. 27, with the motion set to take effect following [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Wednesday decided to issue an arrest warrant for a man on charges that he killed a doctor while receiving treatment at a general hospital. The Seoul Central District Court said it acknowledges the necessity of detaining the suspect. The 30-year-old suspect, only identified by his [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Doctors are pushing to enact a law to prevent the recurrence of a recent attack against a renowned psychiatrist by his patient, a medical association said Wednesday. On Monday, a 30-year-old man suffering from bipolar disorder stabbed his doctor, Lim Se-won, to death during a consultation at Kangbuk Samsung [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor have filed for an asset seizure against Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. (NSSM) as the Japanese firm has not carried out the top court’s order to compensate them. A legal counsel representing the four victims and their descendants has recently asked a [...]