SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A court on Friday suspended the enforcement of the government’s vaccine pass program at department and discount stores while also halting vaccine pass requirements for minors aged 12-18 at all facilities. The Seoul Administrative Court’s decision, however, applies only to facilities and people in Seoul, pending the outcome of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Tuesday suspended the vaccine pass mandate for cram schools and other private education facilities following a court ruling that the system infringes on people’s right to learn. The Seoul Administrative Court ordered the suspension of a rule that requires adults to show proof of vaccination before [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Constitutional Court has ruled again unanimously that there is no problem with the Medical Service Act that allows only blind people to be eligible for an official license as massage therapists, officials said Thursday. A group of sighted massage parlor owners filed the petition claiming the law infringes [...]
SUWON, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — An appellate court on Thursday issued a guilty verdict for the operator of a website that names parents who refuse to pay child support, overturning a lower court’s ruling that found the operator innocent. The Suwon High Court delivered a suspended order to Koo Bon-chang, 58, to pay a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The top court has opened the way for the beneficiaries of those who commit suicide in a state of deep depression to be eligible for insurance payouts. Thus far, the beneficiaries of policyholders who commit suicide have been excluded from the payment of insurance money. According to the latest [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court has finalized suspended prison terms for four anti-American activists charged with trespassing into the U.S. ambassador’s residence in 2019 as part of a protest over defense cost-sharing talks between the two countries, court officials said Monday. The protesters, who are members of a progressive association of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Thursday ordered the government to pay 10 million won (US$8,520) in compensation each to 44 people who were barred from the national teacher qualification exam last year due to their COVID-19 infections. The ruling by the Seoul Central District Court came after the Ministry of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — An appellate court on Friday commuted a life sentence to 35 years in prison for a woman charged with abusing her adopted toddler to death last year in one of the country’s most ghastly child abuse cases in recent years. The Seoul High Court convicted the adoptive mother, surnamed [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Secretly urinating on a stranger constitutes forced molestation, the Supreme Court said Friday, overturning a not guilty verdict by lower courts. The unnamed defendant in the unusual legal case was charged with secretly peeing on a girl’s hair, hoody and padded jumper from behind while she was talking on [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean court has ruled for the first time that gender can be corrected without surgery to remove reproductive organs or to modify external genitals. Tthe Suwon District Court said it recently allowed the correction of gender in a case filed by a transgender individual in his 20s. [...]