SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — About 2,000 restaurant owners and other small merchants sued the government Friday for a total of more than 161 billion won (US$133 million) won in damages for losses incurred due to anti-COVID-19 business restrictions before a compensation law was enacted. The association of small businesses representing the businessmen filed [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of Facebook users in South Korea is pushing to sue the tech giant for passing users’ information to other companies without their consent, judicial sources said Monday. According to the sources, the local law firm Jihyang and the Jinbo Network Center, a civic group advocating for people’s [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Cafe and gym owners are filing separate lawsuits against the government this week seeking billions of won in compensation for losses suffered under COVID-19 business restrictions, industry groups said. At the Seoul Western District Court on Tuesday, 203 gym owners belonging to the Pilates and Fitness Business Association filed [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The government of Jeju Island said Monday it will file a compensation suit against a tourist who traveled there earlier this month despite experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 infection. Jeju Gov. Won Hee-ryong announced the plan to take legal action against the unidentified resident of Ansan, southwest of Seoul. The [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A 60-year-old Vietnamese woman has sued the South Korean government for damages over her family’s suffering during the Vietnam War, a local lawyers’ group said Tuesday. Lawyers for a Democratic Society, an organization of progressive lawyers, dubbed Minbyun in Korean, said that it filed the first-ever compensation lawsuit by [...]