SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — An obstetrician who ordered a nurse to act on his behalf for 10 hours using the popular KakaoTalk mobile messaging app was able to avoid criminal punishment for the death of the newborn, but has been held liable for damages in civil court. On December 27, the Seoul High [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — An obstetrician who ordered a nurse to act on his behalf via the popular messaging app KakaoTalk, including giving an injection, was not found guilty on charges of criminal negligence. Even though the doctor was responsible for the care of the patient, his negligence put the fetus into serious [...]
JEJU/SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The immigration office on the southern island of Jeju decided Friday to grant refugee status to two Yemeni asylum seekers, the first move of its kind since South Korea began to grapple with their inflow early this year. The immigration office also gave 50 other applicants humanitarian stay permits [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A bill to amend the Road Traffic Act, also known as the Yoon Chang-ho Bill, was passed at the National Assembly last Friday to change DUI standards for the first time in 57 years. Previously, drivers found to have a BAC (Blood Alcohol Concentration) of more than 0.05 percent [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Yang Sung-tae, the 15th Chief Justice of the Republic of Korea, was found to have met with legal counsel working for a law firm that was representing a Japanese corporation accused of committing war crimes while he was still in office. Prosecutors are pointing a finger at the former [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A bill that obligates mobile service providers to compensate for network errors passed the Science, ICT, Broadcasting, and Communications Committee at the National Assembly on Thursday. The news comes after KT Corp.’s Ahyeon Branch Office in Seoul recently caught fire, shutting down mobile and Internet network traffic in the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Most conscientious objectors imprisoned for refusing military service were released on parole Friday, following the Supreme Court’s recent not-guilty verdict. The Ministry of Justice said that 58 inmates convicted for refusing to serve in the military, due to religious beliefs and reasons of conscience, were released from prisons and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean court on Thursday ruled that an employee suffering from leukemia after working at Samsung Electronics Co.’s chip production line should be recognized as a victim of an industrial accident. The verdict is the latest chapter in a controversy centered on the safety of the work environment [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Assembly on Thursday passed a proposal aimed at toughening the punishment for drunk driving at its plenary session. Parliamentary committees separately passed two revised proposals designed to increase punishments in the case of driving under the influence (DUI) a day earlier. The so-called Yoon Chang-ho acts consist [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Supreme Court confirmed two appellate court rulings on Thursday that ordered a Japanese company to compensate Koreans for forced labor during World War II. The four-judge bench handed down the decisions on two damages suits against Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. It upheld two rulings — one that [...]