SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The justice ministry on Monday submitted a request to the National Assembly for its consent to detain Rep. Kweon Seong-dong of the main opposition People Power Party embroiled in bribery allegations. Last week, special counsel Min Joong-ki’s team filed for an arrest warrant for Kweon suspected of receiving 100 [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Justice said Wednesday it will create a new organization dedicated to responding to international investment disputes involving foreign capital firms. The ministry unveiled its plan to establish the tentatively titled International Legal Affairs Bureau as part of an upcoming organizational change, according to the official gazette. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Justice revealed last week that it had formulated new guidelines to make it mandatory for the staff of immigration offices to acquire consent from permanent residents when they investigate unregistered migrants. The guidelines, which went into effect this month, also stipulate that immigration office employees should [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The justice ministry on Friday ordered the military to drop its plan to challenge a court ruling that said it was unjust for the military to discharge a transgender soldier over her gender reassignment surgery. Justice Minister Park Beom-kye accepted a recommendation from an advising committee on administrative suits [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Justice said Saturday that it has introduced a deposit program to encourage foreigners subject to deportation to voluntarily leave the country as part of efforts to ease crowding in temporary detention centers amid the coronavirus pandemic. Under the new policy, foreigners who are ordered to leave [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Paper documents will disappear from the judicial procedures in criminal cases, with the entire judicial processes ranging from investigation to trial and execution set to become fully paperless. The Ministry of Justice issued an advance legislation notice on Thursday after filing a legislation draft to go paperless. The legislation [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Justice Ministry said Friday it will seek to revise the Refugee Act to prevent fake asylum seekers from abusing the system and take steps to handle refugee applications much more quickly to screen out bogus claimants. The measures came amid growing anti-refugee sentiment in South Korea sparked by [...]