SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – A Seoul district court on Thursday ruled against a group of 1,890 consumers who have filed a class-action lawsuit against Hyundai Motor Co. over the alleged exaggeration of the gas mileage of an SUV made by the country’s No. 1 automaker. The Seoul Central District Court said that as [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – According to Barun Law, a local law firm representing 5,354 owners of Volkswagen vehicles affected by the company’s emissions scandal, the Constitutional Court of Korea is set to deliberate on its previously filed constitutional complaint, which asked the government to issue a replacement order for the vehicles. No recall [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Thirty-eight owners of the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone in South Korea plan to file a class action lawsuit against Samsung Electronics Co. for alleged inconvenience experienced after the discontinuation of the device, according to a law firm on Wednesday. Each person in the suit, which will be filed with [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Volkswagen is now facing a lawsuit from Korean consumers of one of the company’s gasoline vehicles, the seventh generation Golf 1.4 TSI. A total of 26 vehicle owners filed a lawsuit Monday against the German Volkswagen Group, Audi-Volkswagen Korea, and the car’s domestic distributor, through Barun Law LLC, a [...]
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 [...]