SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean medical community has reacted strongly to a recent Supreme Court ruling involving a surgeon who faced legal consequences for delaying surgery on a patient with a small bowel obstruction due to professional negligence. In the past month, the top court upheld the decision regarding an individual referred [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The bereaved family of renowned late painter Chun Kyung-ja has again lost a legal battle to defy the law enforcement authority’s conclusion that “Beautiful Woman,” kept by a national art museum, is one of Chun’s original paintings. The Seoul Central District Court on Friday ruled against Chun’s family, who [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The liability of each striker should be counted individually in a damages suit over a labor strike, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday, a landmark decision expected to set the tone for similar labor dispute cases in the future. The ruling came in a damages suit filed by Hyundai Motor [...]
BUSAN, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) — An appellate court sentenced the so-called spin kick assailant in the southeastern port city of Busan to 20 years in prison on Monday amid growing social resentment over his brutal attacks on a female stranger apparently for the purpose of rape. The Busan High Court made the ruling for [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Some law firms in South Korea are flourishing under the slogan of “sentence-reducing package for sexual crimes” and provide an apology letter writing service for sexual criminals. Such services, however, turned out to have no effect in court. The Supreme Prosecutors Office analyzed 91 major sexual crime cases reported [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court has ordered the state to compensate the family of a soldier who died on duty after failing to receive proper treatment for leukemia, legal sources said Thursday. The private first class, Hong Jeong-ki, started showing symptoms, such as vomiting, in March 2016, just seven months after [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Administrative Court has designated three one-judge divisions tasked with hearing school violence cases in an effort to cope with a rise in such cases and speed up rulings, sources said Friday. Starting next Monday, the three divisions will be tasked with hearing school violence cases on top [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Former Justice Minister Cho Kuk was sentenced to two years in prison Friday for using his influence to receive academic favors, including university admissions, for his children. The Seoul Central District Court also found Cho guilty of interfering with an inspection into a corruption case by using his power [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid controversy over a court ruling that an individual making persistent phone calls cannot be punished by anti-stalking law if the calls are not answered, a recent court decision found the defendant guilty in a similar case. Incheon District Court on Tuesday sentenced a 42-year-old man charged with violating [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will introduce a fast-track liability exemption program for the economically-vulnerable class, enabling the bankruptcy procedure to be completed instantly as soon as the court approves the discharge. The Seoul Bankruptcy Court, together with the state-run Credit Counseling and Recovery Service, announced on Thursday that it will implement [...]