SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – A Seoul court on Thursday ruled partially in favor of a group of college entrance exam takers and their parents in a lawsuit seeking state compensation for an erroneous early “time is up” signal that shortened the exam time by two minutes. The exam time for the fourth session [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Wednesday ruled against South Korean victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor in a damages suit filed against Japanese companies, apparently on grounds that the cases’ statute of limitations has expired. The suit was filed against Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and Kumagai Gumi Co. by [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Courts in three cities on Friday ruled against the government’s plan to expand the COVID-19 vaccine pass system to include 12- to 18-year-olds, following recent similar decisions by courts in Seoul and Suwon. The Daejeon District Court ruled in favor of 96 plaintiffs, including teenagers, who opposed the planned [...]
ANYANG, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A former elementary school principal was sentenced to a two-year prison term Friday on charges of installing spy cameras inside the school, including a female teachers’ restroom, and secretly filming body parts. The 57-year-old former principal at the school in Anyang, 23 kilometers south of Seoul, allegedly fitted a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — An appeals court on Wednesday upheld the not-guilty verdicts of seven doctors and nurses at Ewha Womans University Medical Center in the case of deaths of four newborns by bacterial infection in December 2017. The Seoul High Court said it found the four doctors and three nurses at the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court finalized a four-year prison term Thursday for the wife of former Justice Minister Cho Kuk for college admission fraud involving their daughter and other charges, bringing an end to one of South Korea’s most divisive scandals in recent years. Chung Kyung-sim, a former professor of Dongyang [...]
DAEJEON, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The Supreme Court has dismissed a second appeal filed by Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries against an order to sell patent rights the company has in South Korea to compensate a victim of wartime forced labor, according to legal sources Tuesday. The top court dismissed Mitsubishi Heavy’s appeal against the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Friday ruled against a same sex couple demanding the same spousal health insurance coverage as heterosexual couples, saying matrimony in South Korea is still considered a union between a man and a woman. In February of last year, So Seong-wook filed the administrative lawsuit against [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean court on Thursday ordered the sale of a Japanese steel company’s assets here to compensate wartime forced labor victims in the second ruling of its kind. The Daegu District Court’s Pohang branch ordered Nippon Steel Corp. to sell off its securities of PNR, a joint venture [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Constitutional Court has ruled again unanimously that there is no problem with the Medical Service Act that allows only blind people to be eligible for an official license as massage therapists, officials said Thursday. A group of sighted massage parlor owners filed the petition claiming the law infringes [...]