SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean victims of wartime sexual slavery lost their second lawsuit against the Japanese government Wednesday, suffering a setback in their efforts to hold Tokyo accountable for war crimes. The Seoul Central District Court dismissed the case brought by 20 plaintiffs, including surviving victims forced to work in front-line [...]
SEOUL, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent court decision ruled that the seat structure designed for disabled persons in public buses, which obliges them sit sideways rather than facing forward, amounts to an act of discrimination. The Supreme Court announced Thursday the conclusion of a lawsuit filed by a disabled person against a transportation [...]
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 [...]