SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Three major online shopping site operators have been ordered by a South Korean court to pay compensation for discrimination against visually-impaired people. In a collective suit filed against SSG.com, Lotte Mart and e-Bay Korea by about 960 visually-impaired people, the Seoul Central District Court ruled partially in favor of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Two “autonomous private high schools” in Seoul won a lawsuit against the local education office on Thursday, in a ruling allowing them to reclaim their elite status. The Seoul Administrative Court said it was illegal for the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education to decide to cancel the licenses of [...]
DAEJEON, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean appellate court has dismissed Japanese company Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ appeal against a lower court’s order to seize its assets held here to compensate victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor, judicial officials said Tuesday. The Daejeon District Court’s appellate division in the central South Korean city made [...]
JEJU, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A foreigner whose application for refugee status was refused despite his claim that the lives of his family members were threatened by the mafia filed a suit to overturn the decision, but eventually lost the case in court. The Jeju District Court ruled on Monday that it dismissed the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the guilty convictions of dozens of former and current Samsung executives accused of sabotaging labor union activities at a subsidiary company in 2013. The court confirmed a 16-month prison sentence for Kang Kyung-hoon, a vice president at Samsung Electronics Co., on charges of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Three officials from a burger patty supplier for McDonald’s Korea were given suspended prison sentences by a local court Tuesday for providing patties potentially contaminated with E. coli to the local unit of the global fast-food giant. A managing director of the supplier, whose name was withheld, and two [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court has allowed the import of lifesize dolls, saying such sex toys for personal use do not corrupt public morals. According to the Seoul Administrative Court on Monday, it has recently overturned a decision by Gimpo International Airport’s customs office to block the import of a mannequin. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison on Monday, in a retrial of a bribery case involving former President Park Geun-hye. He was put behind bars again less than three years after he was allowed to walk free. The Seoul High Court gave Lee, vice [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — An appellate court will give a verdict on Monday for Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong in a retrial of a bribery case involving former President Park Geun-hye. Lee, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics Co., faces charges that he bribed Park and her longtime friend, Choi Soon-sil, to win government support [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a 20-year sentence for former President Park Geun-hye in a high-profile corruption case, closing the yearslong saga that gripped the country and ultimately removed her from office in 2017. In the sentencing hearing over an appeal filed by prosecutors against a ruling in [...]