SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The top court has ruled that repeatedly calling a mobile phone and leaving a record of “unanswered calls” should be punished as an act of stalking. The Supreme Court recently overturned a lower court’s ruling that acquitted a man of charges related to the violation of the Stalking Crime [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A local court has issued the controversial ruling that the anti-stalking law do not apply to individuals making persistent phone calls that are not answered. Incheon District Court recently ruled that a 54-year-old man accused of violating the Act of Punishment of Stalking Crimes was not guilty. The man [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A person ruled guilty of misappropriation for ‘keeping’ bitcoins that were inadvertently sent to him has been found not guilty on appeal and remanded trial. Suwon High Court recently ruled that the 32-year-old man charged with breach of trust was not guilty. In June 2018, 199.999 bitcoins, worth 1.48 billion won [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The top court on Thursday upheld lower courts’ acquittal of a head of a nursing hospital in a case involving the death of an elderly patient who committed suicide by jumping from his hospital room. The Supreme Court said it upheld not-guilty verdicts issued by an appeals court for [...]
AUSTIN, Texas, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Wickfire suffered the latest in an extensive line of litigation defeats to TriMax. This time, a District Court dismissed Wickfire’s meritless claims permanently. In 2021, an Appellate Court ruled that Wickfire lacked any evidence supporting its multi-million-dollar claims against TriMax. Undeterred by this monumental loss, Wickfire tried its [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Wednesday ruled against South Korean victims of Japan’s wartime forced labor in a damages suit filed against Japanese companies, apparently on grounds that the cases’ statute of limitations has expired. The suit was filed against Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and Kumagai Gumi Co. by [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Public anger has grown this week after a court dismissed a group of forced labor victims’ damages suit against Japanese firms, with some accusing the judge of injecting his personal beliefs into the ruling and demanding that he be impeached. The Seoul Central District Court dismissed the case Monday, [...]
DAEGU, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — An operator of the controversial doxing website “Digital Prison” has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for violating privacy law by disclosing personal data of suspected sex offenders and other criminals. The Daegu District Court delivered the prison sentence Wednesday to the website’s initial operator and ordered [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top court said Sunday it has upheld a lower court ruling that found a former Asiana Airlines chief guilty of rejecting menstrual leave for flight attendants. Kim Soo-cheon was indicted in 2017 for declining to approve 138 requests for period leave by 15 flight attendants between May [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for causing a car accident under the influence that resulted in the death of a Taiwanese student studying here last year, a Seoul court said Thursday. The Seoul Central District Court on Wednesday handed down the prison term to [...]