SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Volkswagen customers have submitted a petition to the Ministry of Environment, demanding that their vehicle purchases be refunded in lieu of a recall. Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office said Thursday that Audi Volkswagen Korea arbitrarily changed key parts of some 50,000 vehicles, altering their emissions. The ministry rejected Volkswagen’s [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean top tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. hinted Wednesday that it may take a counteraction against Huawei Technologies Co. after the Chinese company launched lawsuits claiming Samsung’s infringement of its patents. Earlier, the Chinese firm brought two suits against the world’s top smartphone maker in the U.S. state [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean consumers are taking legal action against Nissan after the Ministry of Environment said Monday that the Japanese carmaker was found to have faked the emissions results for its Qashqai SUV. Nissan has sold more than 800 units of the compact crossover in Korea since last November. This is the [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The labor union for pilots at Korean Air Lines Co. said Wednesday that it has filed a suit against its chairman claiming defamation by his recent SNS comment allegedly ridiculing pilots’ daily work. The suit was filed against Cho Yang-ho, chairman of Korean Air, with the Seoul Central District [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Volkswagen Group and its local unit in South Korea are facing another class-action lawsuit over their manipulation of emissions for some of its 3-liter diesel models in the United States, a local law firm said Wednesday. This is in addition to the ongoing class-action suit filed by customers of [...]
SEOUL, Jan.14 (Korea Bizwire) – The saying ‘malicious comments are better than no comments at all’ no longer seems to be true. The number of stars who had to tolerate cyber attacks or stop at just ‘scaring’ those committing the offenses is now changing. Management companies are taking action and employing their full resources to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Over 3,000 owners of Volkswagen vehicles in South Korea are participating in a class-action lawsuit against the German auto giant, demanding the cancellation of their purchases and full refunds, industry sources said Tuesday. According to the sources, about 3,200 customers of Volkswagen and its luxury brand Audi have joined [...]
GWANGJU, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A contemporary art foundation said Thursday it has received mixed rulings on a couple of damages suits involving art works displayed at its festivals. The Supreme Court has found the Gwangju Biennale Foundation not responsible for damage done to an art piece by Ai Weiwei, a Chinese human rights [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — BNP Paribas South Korea sued its customers most frequently when facing disputes with them, among all the non-life insurance companies in Korea last year. According to the Financial Consumer Agency on June 3, BNP Paribas South Korea dealt with seven dispute cases at the court, with 26.9 percent of [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Samjong KPMG, a general accounting, finance and management advisory firm in Korea, targets to enter the lawsuit market armed with professionals for electronic discovery, or e-discovery. E-discovery, referring to the process of discovery in civil litigation carried out in electronic format, requires litigants to provide each other’s relevant information and [...]