SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Close to 50 percent of the accused standing before criminal courts in South Korea were found to proceed without hiring an attorney, data showed Monday. Rep. Park Ju-min of the Democratic Party referred to a Supreme Court report indicating that 45 percent of the accused proceeded in their first-instance [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — In many cases, the value of child-rearing costs acknowledged by courts was found to be less than half of the amount claimed by parents who filed suits to request payment of child support, data released by a provider of free legal consultation services showed Tuesday. The Korea Legal Aid [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Courts in three cities on Friday ruled against the government’s plan to expand the COVID-19 vaccine pass system to include 12- to 18-year-olds, following recent similar decisions by courts in Seoul and Suwon. The Daejeon District Court ruled in favor of 96 plaintiffs, including teenagers, who opposed the planned [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Court Administration on Monday advised courts nationwide to shut down for three weeks to slow down the rapid spread of the coronavirus. “We advise judges to actively consider being flexible in delaying and rescheduling hearings and sentencing dates for three weeks starting Dec. 22,” Kim In-kyeom, head [...]
DAEJEON, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — With South Korean courts moving heaven and earth to cope with the spread of the coronavirus, there was an unusual scene in which a string of court sentencings were provided in the blink of an eye. The final trials in a string of criminal appeal cases that the Daejeon [...]