SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – An appeals court on Tuesday convicted a U.S. citizen accused of murdering a South Korean college student in 1997, delivering a 20-year prison term that is the severest penalty possible for the defendant who was then an adolescent. Upholding a lower court’s decision, the Seoul High Court found Arthur [...]
SEOUL, Feb.15 (Korea Bizwire) – With an increasing number of foreigners standing on trial in Korea, the need for better court translation is growing. According to the Supreme Court, there were 3,243 foreign individuals indicted in 2012, increasing to 3,789 in 2014. If civil cases such as overdue wages and family litigation such as divorce [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s former Prime Minister Lee Wan-koo received an 8-month jail term Friday for receiving bribes from a deceased businessman. Still, the Seoul Central District Court suspended the sentence for two years and ordered him to forfeit 30 million won (US$27,000). Lee, who stepped down in April after mounting [...]
SEOUL, Jan.21 (Korea Bizwire) – An individual referred to in media reports as ‘A’ (41) and his wife had been longing for a second child for so long. The reproductively challenged couple were able to conceive their first son miraculously through test tube procedures. They loved their son very much. The couple wanted to have [...]