SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Overturning a lower court decision, a Seoul appellate court on Friday ruled in favor of an Angolan family stranded at the country’s main airport while applying for refugee status in the country after fleeing persecution in their homeland. The Seoul High Court ordered immigration officials to grant the family [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Chem Ltd. said Friday it has filed additional lawsuits against local rival SK Innovation Co. in the United States over electric vehicle (EV) battery patents, upping the stakes of their month-long legal row. LG Chem said it filed a pair of lawsuits with the U.S. International Trade Commission [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Chief executives of LG Chem Ltd. and SK Innovation Co. — two South Korean electric vehicle battery makers — are expected to meet later this month to make a breakthrough in their legal standoff over EV battery patents, industry sources said Saturday. LG Chem CEO Shin Hak-cheol and SK [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Innovation Co., a major electric vehicle (EV) battery maker in South Korea, said Friday it will file lawsuits against its local rival LG Chem Ltd. and LG Electronics Inc. in the United States for patent infringement over EV battery technology. SK Innovation said it plans to file lawsuits [...]
POHANG, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A damages suit involving the earthquake in Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province on November 15, 2017 was filed. The trial is finally starting one year and nine months after the quake, as a government research team announced belatedly that ‘the operation of the geothermal power plant brought about an earthquake’, and [...]
ROTTERDAM, Holland, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Centrient Pharmaceuticals announced that on April 25, 2019, its wholly owned subsidiary, Centrient Pharmaceuticals India Private Limited, filed a lawsuit against Dalas Biotech Limited in the High Court of Delhi in New Delhi, India for patent infringement of Indian Patent Number 247301. This patent, which is owned by [...]
INCHEON, Apr. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean court said Thursday it has dismissed a lawsuit filed by an Angolan family seeking to apply for refugee status while being stranded for almost four months at Incheon airport, west of Seoul. The family, comprising Nkuka Lulendo, his wife and four children, said they came to [...]
LONDON, Mar. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — French bank BNP Paribas, its Chairman Jean Lemierre, CEO Jean Laurent Bonnafé and the bank’s legal representative Valérie Lafarge-Sarkozy are the subjects of a lawsuit filed on behalf of Jacob Agam and Vertical Group Holding Ltd by Farrugia, Gatt & Falzon in Malta on 1st March 2019 with a claim [...]
CHUNCHEON, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Residents of Yeongwol County in Gangwon Province are strongly opposing a plan to set up a solar power plant in the area. A total of 41 residents from county’s Yongseok-ri Village filed a lawsuit against the mayor of Yeongwol last Friday to put a stop to the construction plan. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean children’s song “Baby Shark” made history as part of the Korean Wave, or “hallyu,” by charting on Billboard’s most competitive Hot 100 list as the first non-pop Korean song. For the week of Feb. 2, “Baby Shark” came in 36th place on the Hot 100, stepping [...]