YEONGAM, Aug.12 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean municipality of Yeongam has confirmed two court rulings from the Japanese colonial era, which reveal that local residents who exposed the forced recruitment of comfort women by the Japanese military were criminally punished. The incidents, which occurred in 1938, shortly after the start of the Second Sino-Japanese [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Justice issued an advance legislation notice on Tuesday with respect to the revision of the Act on the Use of Electronic Documents in Civil Procedures. Current laws require litigants to submit by person their litigation documents such as land register, building register and certificate of corporate [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — In the process of investigation and trial of criminal cases, paper documents are expected to disappear in 2024. The Ministry of Justice announced that new legislation that requires e-documents to be used in criminal judicial procedures had passed the National Assembly’s plenary session. Unlike procedures for patents, and civil [...]