SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The Constitutional Court on Thursday ruled against a law that calls for aggravated punishment for repeat drunk drivers because multiple violations are defined as repeat offences no matter how far apart in time they are. The court delivered the non-constitutional decision against the country’s revised Road Traffic Act, dubbed [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday imports of childlike sex dolls should be banned, because they could lead to the perception of children as sexual objects and increase the danger of potential sex crimes against minors. The ruling overturned lower courts’ decisions that imports of child sex dolls should be [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Secretly urinating on a stranger constitutes forced molestation, the Supreme Court said Friday, overturning a not guilty verdict by lower courts. The unnamed defendant in the unusual legal case was charged with secretly peeing on a girl’s hair, hoody and padded jumper from behind while she was talking on [...]
INCHEON, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A 32-year-old single mother was sentenced to 20 years behind bars Friday for leaving her three-year-old daughter home alone for three days, causing her to die of dehydration and neglect. The Incheon District Court also ordered her to take 40 hours of child abuse therapy and barred her from [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Group heir Lee Jae-yong was fined 70 million won (US$60,055) Tuesday for illegally using propofol, an anesthetic medication, dozens of times over a period of years. The Seoul Central District Court also ordered an additional forfeiture of 17 million won as it convicted Lee of violations of the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean court has ruled for the first time that gender can be corrected without surgery to remove reproductive organs or to modify external genitals. Tthe Suwon District Court said it recently allowed the correction of gender in a case filed by a transgender individual in his 20s. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The justice ministry on Friday ordered the military to drop its plan to challenge a court ruling that said it was unjust for the military to discharge a transgender soldier over her gender reassignment surgery. Justice Minister Park Beom-kye accepted a recommendation from an advising committee on administrative suits [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court has overturned two lower court rulings that a foreigner who divorced after marrying a Korean cannot have parental rights and the right to child custody due to a lack of communication skills in Korean language. In litigation filed by a Vietnamese woman who divorced after marrying [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Thursday approved a 42-year prison sentence for Cho Ju-bin, the mastermind of a notorious online sex blackmail ring. The top court also confirmed lower courts’ order that Cho has to wear an electronic bracelet for 30 years, pay a forfeiture of 100 million won (US$90,000), [...]
DAEJEON/SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A court ruled Thursday in favor of a deceased transgender solider in a suit filed to get the Army’s decision to discharge her repealed, a landmark ruling that could have deep repercussions in the way South Korean society treats sexual minorities. The Daejeon District Court said that the military [...]