SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Mercedes-Benz Korea has requested a Seoul court cancel a multibillion-won fine imposed on the company for manipulating diesel emissions in the country, judicial sources said Tuesday. The German carmaker filed a lawsuit against the environment ministry in October with the Seoul Administrative Court, seeking the cancellation of a 77.6 billion-won (US$69.3 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Top construction equipment maker Doosan Infracore Co. on Thursday gained the upper hand in a lawsuit brought against it by investors in its Chinese unit Doosan Infracore China Co. (DICC) as the Supreme Court sent the case back to a lower court for retrial. The highest court ordered the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Hundreds of cafe owners filed a lawsuit against the government on Thursday seeking compensation for losses suffered under COVID-19 business restrictions. An association of cafe owners said the suit, which was lodged with the Seoul Central District Court, calls for around 1.8 billion won (US$1.64 million) in damages, or [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Students and their parents who recently took the annual national college entrance exam have sued the Minister of Education after an early bell reportedly sabotaged their exam. Students from a women’s high school in Seoul’s Gangseo District and their parents recently sued eight people including Education Minister Yoo Eun-hye, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — About 100 owners of Hyundai Motor Co.’s Kona electric vehicle (EV), for which the South Korean carmaker recently made a recall following a string of fires, are set to file a second class action lawsuit by the end of this month. The Kona EV owners plan to submit a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of 170 owners of Kona Electric model has sued Hyundai Motor Co. for a series of fires accidents that has tarnished the model’s reputation and lowered the vehicle’s overall value. The group submitted the lawsuit to Seoul Central District Court last week, calling on the company to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – A former South Korean solider, who was forcibly discharged after a sex reassignment surgery, on Tuesday filed an administrative suit against the Army’s decision, saying it was unconstitutional. Byun Hee-soo, 22, who had the rank of staff sergeant, underwent the operation in Thailand last year and expressed desire to [...]
DAEGU, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Daegu, once the epicenter of South Korea’s new coronavirus outbreak, filed a civil damage suit against a fringe religious sect for allegedly causing mass infections by hindering the city’s quarantine efforts, the city said Tuesday. The city, the country’s fourth-largest with 24.3 million people, filed the suit with the [...]
NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 18 (Korea Bizwire) – SmileDirectClub, Inc. (NASDAQ: SDC) the oral care company and first direct-to-consumer medtech platform for teeth straightening, announced today that it has filed a lawsuit seeking approximately $2.8 billion from NBC Universal Media (“NBC”) and reporter Vicky Nguyen for knowingly and intentionally making factually inaccurate, misleading and defamatory claims about the Company and [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Netflix, the world’s leading video streaming service provider, has filed a lawsuit against a local internet service provider over network usage fees, industry insiders said Tuesday. Netflix Services Korea Ltd., the Korean unit of the U.S. streaming giant, filed the suit against SK Broadband Inc. requesting a Seoul court [...]