SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tech giant LG Electronics Co. has been accused of avoiding proper compensation for inventions. Some 60 current and former LG employee reportedly filed a lawsuit against the company in 2018 for failing to pay for a number of inventions. Among those inventions include smartphone software that LG [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The family of Byun Hee-soo, a transgender former soldier who was forcibly discharged from the Army last year, will press ahead with an administrative lawsuit she had filed against the Army before her death, an advocacy group said Monday. Byun’s attorneys and family decided on Wednesday to apply for [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Energy Solution Ltd. and SK Innovation Co. — South Korea’s top two battery makers — have discussed ways to resolve a trade secret lawsuit in the United States, but they failed to narrow their differences over the amount of settlement, industry sources said Thursday. On Feb. 10, the [...]
SEOUL, March 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A U.S. trade panel has said SK Innovation Co. misappropriated trade secrets of its South Korean rival LG Energy Solution Ltd. for its development of electric vehicle (EV) batteries, in a decision that could jeopardize SK Innovation’s battery businesses in the United States. The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 200 owners of cafes and restaurants sued the government on Friday over losses caused by COVID-19 business restrictions. The plaintiffs — 170 cafe owners and 70 restaurant owners — said they are seeking 1.2 billion won (US$1.08 million) in compensation from the government. The lawsuit, which was [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A gay couple has sued the state health insurer for canceling its coverage of one of the partners as a dependent, an activist group said Friday. So Seong-wook and his partner Kim Yong-min filed the administrative lawsuit against the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) with the Seoul Administrative Court [...]
WASHINGTON/SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A U.S. trade panel on Wednesday ruled in favor of South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. in a trade secret case and issued a 10-year import ban on some lithium-ion battery products by SK Innovation Co. The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) affirmed a preliminary ruling delivered [...]
BAKERSFIELD, Calif., Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — INTERNATIONAL FRUIT GENETICS LLC (IFG) After several years of sometimes acrimonious lawsuits, IFG has finally come to the end of infringement proceedings in which it sought to protect its proprietary grape varietals in the Western Cape, South Africa. During 2010, IFG concluded a suite of licensing, planting, and [...]
JEJU, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A foreigner whose application for refugee status was refused despite his claim that the lives of his family members were threatened by the mafia filed a suit to overturn the decision, but eventually lost the case in court. The Jeju District Court ruled on Monday that it dismissed the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Associations of small merchants filed a petition on Thursday with the Constitutional Court, asking it to review whether virus-related restrictions violate their basic property rights. The petition is the third of its kind, with the first one filed by bar and internet cafe owners on Jan. 5 and the [...]