SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Owners of Hyundai Motor Co.’s Kona Electric have lost a lawsuit against the automaker for a series of fires caused by battery issues. The Seoul Central District Court has ruled in favor of Hyundai in a compensation lawsuit filed by 173 Kona EV owners against the automaker. A series [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Metro, the operator of the subway system in Seoul, has filed a damages suit against a disability rights advocacy group over its subway-riding protests, city officials said Tuesday. The city-run company filed the suit with the Seoul Central District Court on Friday seeking damages of 601.45 million won [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Singer and actor Lee Seung-gi on Thursday sued his former long time agency’s four executives, including the CEO, for embezzlement of company funds. “Hook Entertainment has failed to disclose and pay the amount of profits generated from his music in the 18 years since his debut,” Lee’s attorney said. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Games Corp. has been sued by South Korean players of “Uma Musume Pretty Derby,” a popular Japanese-developed mobile game, with hundreds of users demanding refunds of their in-game microtransactions over the company’s purportedly neglectful management of Korean users. Kim Sung-soo, a user representing 201 players of the game, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean flight attendants formerly employed by China Eastern Airlines Corp. who were laid off just prior to their expected promotion to regular employee status have won in a first-instance court trial. The Seoul Central District Court on Thursday ruled in favor of the 70 flight attendants who sued [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of South Koreans who invested in two main tokens of Terraform Labs have sued Do Kwon, the embattled cryptocurrency firm’s co-founder and CEO, and co-founder Daniel Shin, a law firm representing the investors said Thursday. LKB & Partners said the complaints have been filed with the Seoul [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Owners of the Galaxy S22 series, the latest smartphones by Samsung Electronic Co., are gearing up to sue the company for the models’ built-in game optimizing service, which allegedly limits the phone performance, legal sources said Tuesday. The Galaxy S22 series released last month came under intense scrutiny at [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Google has filed a lawsuit against South Korea’s antitrust regulator to overturn the regulator’s decision to fine the global technology giant for pressing smartphone makers into only using its Android mobile operating system, sources said Wednesday. The legal action by Google against the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) came [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Friday ruled against a same sex couple demanding the same spousal health insurance coverage as heterosexual couples, saying matrimony in South Korea is still considered a union between a man and a woman. In February of last year, So Seong-wook filed the administrative lawsuit against [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean rapper Dok2 has appealed a court ruling ordering him to pay an unpaid jewelry bill to a jeweler in Los Angeles, court officials said Wednesday. Last month, the 31-year-old rapper, whose legal name is Lee Joon-kyung, was ordered by the Seoul Southern District Court to give 41.2 [...]