SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A court on Friday ordered a sports agency to compensate fans for Cristiano Ronaldo’s no-show at a friendly football match in Seoul last year. The Seoul Central District Court ruled in favor of 162 plaintiffs who sued The Fasta, which organized the exhibition game between Italy’s Juventus and South [...]
JEJU, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – A court on the southern island of Jeju on Tuesday upheld the local government’s revocation of the business license of what would have been the nation’s first for-profit hospital. The operator of the Greenland International Medical Center, owned by a Chinese real estate developer, filed a lawsuit in May 2019 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A salaried worker, who died in 2018 after traveling about 1,000 kilometers every week between home and work for about six months, has been recognized as a victim of an industrial accident by a local court, judicial sources said Monday. The Seoul Administrative Court ruled in favor of the [...]
SUWON, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A thief caught stealing eggs earlier this year due to economic hardships caused by the coronavirus outbreak has been sentenced by a local court to one year behind bars, the court said Friday. The 47-year-old man was indicted for stealing a carton of eggs from a low-cost accommodation facility [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of robberies and thefts tried in court rose by 2.4 percent last year after declining for three straight years, according to newly published court annals. The number of cases was 13,094, an increase of 312 from 2018. Fraud and blackmail rose 8.9 percent from 40,335 cases to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul man was fined for abusing animal rights by raising nearly 30 cats in his cramped and filthy home, court officials said Saturday. The Seoul Western District Court fined the 48-year-old man, only known by his surname Choi, 3 million won (US$2,530) for having neglected 27 stray cats [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — An appellate court on Thursday upheld a lower court’s conviction of eight former employees of Samsung Securities Co. indicted for selling “ghost” stocks mistakenly paid to them as dividends in 2018. The Seoul Southern District Court’s appellate division affirmed suspended prison sentences ranging from one to 1 1/2 years [...]
SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed by a consumer group seeking to invalidate airlines’ policies to void mileage points after 10 years. The Citizens United for Consumer Sovereignty sued Korean Air Lines Co. and Asiana Airlines Inc. in February 2019, arguing their expiration rules encroach on collectors’ [...]
SEOUL, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Angry protesters have been gathering in front of a local court this week, denouncing a recent decision to keep in Korea a criminal who ran a child porn site. “The decision is neither right nor fair. There is no justice in the Republic of Korea,” one sign read, using [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Southern District Court sentenced a defendant referred to only as ‘A’ (49) to 14 months in jail with a stay of execution for three years. The defendant was charged after hitting a pedestrian with his electric kickboard in a state of inebriation. While intoxicated, he rode an [...]