SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Thursday ruled in favor of LG Chem Ltd. against its rival SK Innovation Co. in an electric vehicle (EV) battery patent case. The Seoul Central District Court turned down a civil lawsuit as well as damage compensation filed by SK Innovation against LG Chem in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court’s ruling in favor of workers at Kia Motors Corp. that fixed bonuses should be counted as standard wages, closing the curtain on the almost decadelong legal battle. The Supreme Court confirmed that the automaker should pay its workers back wages, [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Wednesday ruled in favor of Samsung Electronics Co. in a class action suit filed by more than 500 consumers over battery explosions of the tech giant’s ill-fated Galaxy Note 7 smartphones released in 2016. The Seoul Central District Court said it rejected the indemnity claim [...]
SEOUL, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Ahead of SK Telecom Co.’s termination of 2G service, the company’s 2G customers with mobile phone numbers starting with 011 or 017 lost a lawsuit for protection of their mobile phone numbers in a civil court of appeal. According to industry sources on Wednesday, the Seoul High Court ruled [...]
SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Friday ruled in favor of a Korean adoptee who filed a lawsuit last year to find her biological father in a landmark ruling that acknowledged adoptees’ legal rights to find their family roots. After the Seoul Family Court announced that the plaintiff, Kang Mee-sook, is [...]
SEOUL, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a previous court decision on a longtime friend of jailed former President Park Geun-hye in an influence-peddling and corruption case. The highest court confirmed the previous ruling by the Seoul High Court in February that sentenced Choi Seo-won to 18 years in prison [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — In a key ruling that acknowledged the risks of unsafe work environments on a fetus, South Korea’s top court on Wednesday ruled in favor of nurses who claimed their children’s congenital heart defects should be covered by workplace accident compensation. The Supreme Court ordered the Seoul High Court to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Thursday levied a fine of 26 billion won (US$22 million) on Audi Volkswagen Korea (AVK), the local unit of the German carmakers, for fabricating emissions test results for their cars imported here and producing false advertisements for them. The Seoul Central District Court handed out [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Friday ruled in favor of a main opposition party lawmaker accused of illegally asking a former KT Corp. chief to hire his daughter as a regular worker in exchange for favors. The Seoul Southern District Court found Rep. Kim Sung-tae of the conservative Liberty Korea [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top court on Thursday ordered a lower court to reconsider its jail sentence for a former senior prosecutor who allegedly reassigned a junior colleague he sexually harassed to a remote area in an attempt to cover up the case, which later sparked the MeToo movement here. Seo [...]