SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) – A meeting of judges nationwide ended Monday without issuing a response to the controversy surrounding presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung’s election law violation case. The extraordinary meeting of the National Council of Judges was held at the Judicial Research and Training Institute in Goyang, northwest of Seoul, with 87 to [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Judge Jee Kui-youn of the Seoul Central District Court has submitted a statement to the Supreme Court explaining his position on allegations he was treated to multiple visits to an expensive hostess bar, legal sources said Friday. Jee, the presiding judge for former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s insurrection trial, [...]
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK/SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean lawyer was elected as a judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the 2024-2033 period, the court’s website showed Thursday, marking the third time that a South Korean national has won a seat at the court. Paek Kee-bong, a lawyer at Kim & Chang, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will now reveal the names of lawyers and the law firms for each ruling posted on the Supreme Court website. The Supreme Court has been allowing visitors to search for criminal rulings on the website as well as other rulings from [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Recent data from the Korea Employment Information Service revealed that judges had the highest satisfaction level among 621 occupations and 19,127 employees surveyed last year. The study examined jobs using six different parameters – development potential, salary satisfaction, job sustainability, work environment, work satisfaction, and social reputation – to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – “No” and “it shouldn’t” were the answers by global scholars on artificial intelligence during Monday’s press conference for the 2016 International Judicial Symposium. The press conference featured Oren Etzioni, Director of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and Roman Yampolskiy, Director of the Cyber-Security Lab at University of Louisville, [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Prosecutors formally arrested a judge-turned-lawyer accused of accepting billions of won from clients in exchange for promises to use her connections and influence over courts to help them win lighter sentences. The Seoul Central District Court issued the arrest warrant for lawyer Choi You-jeong Thursday night over suspicions that [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – If your grandparent is a Supreme Court justice, you just might have a better chance at getting accepted to law school. There has been growing controversy over law school applicants mentioning their high-profile family members ranging from public officers to senior prosecutors in their cover letters. It was recently [...]
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 [...]