INCHEON, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A district court handed down a rare death sentence Thursday for a 53-year-old man for killing a woman for money and murdering an accomplice in December last year. The man, Kwon Jae-chan, was charged with robbery and corpse abandonment in the double murder case after allegedly strangling the 50-something [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Upholding a lower court ruling, a Seoul appeals court on Thursday acquitted a former Army captain charged with having sex with a fellow male soldier. The Seoul Northern District Court cleared the former captain, whose identity was withheld, of charges that he violated the Military Criminal Act that calls [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A person ruled guilty of misappropriation for ‘keeping’ bitcoins that were inadvertently sent to him has been found not guilty on appeal and remanded trial. Suwon High Court recently ruled that the 32-year-old man charged with breach of trust was not guilty. In June 2018, 199.999 bitcoins, worth 1.48 billion won [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Thursday ruled against more than 1,000 employees of KT Corp. seeking reimbursement for what they claimed were wages lost due to the peak wage system. A total of 1,312 incumbent and former KT employees launched two separate suits, in 2019 and 2020, demanding the compensation [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Thursday finalized an eight-year prison term for a man charged with causing a car accident while driving under the influence of alcohol that resulted in the death of a Taiwanese student in 2020. In a retrial, the top court upheld a lower court’s ruling that [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The top court on Thursday upheld lower courts’ acquittal of a head of a nursing hospital in a case involving the death of an elderly patient who committed suicide by jumping from his hospital room. The Supreme Court said it upheld not-guilty verdicts issued by an appeals court for [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that the lawyers’ code of conduct banning them from joining online legal counseling platforms, such as LawTalk, is unconstitutional, a decision expected to bring sweeping changes to how law is practiced in South Korea. The ruling is in favor of 60 lawyers and Law&Company, [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a 1 1/2-year prison term for Seungri, the disgraced former member of K-pop boy band BIGBANG, on prostitution mediation, overseas gambling and other charges. Upholding a lower court’s ruling, the top court found the 32-year-old, whose real name is Lee Seung-hyun, guilty of [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that citizenship obtained through marriage not made in good faith should not be recognized, marking the first ruling on “sham marriages” as a means of getting citizenship. Upholding a lower court’s ruling, the top court found a Chinese national, whose identity has been withheld, [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court ruled Thursday that it was legitimate for the South Korean Consulate General in Los Angeles to deny a visa for Korean-American singer Steve Yoo, who has been banned from entering the country since 2002 for draft dodging. Yoo, also known by his Korean name Yoo Seung-jun, [...]