SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the number of lawsuits being filed in South Korea continues to grow. The National Court Administration reported that the number of registered lawsuits last year amounted to 6,679,233, up by 0.68 percent (44,889 cases) since the previous year. Among them, 4,829,616 cases dealt with [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — On Wednesday, the Korea Legal Aid Center for Family Relations, a provider of free legal consultation services, unveiled statistics and analysis on the legal aid it extended last year with respect to lawsuits to secure child support payments. Among the 151 cases of legal aid, the number of lawsuits [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd. and SK Innovation Co. — South Korea’s top two electric vehicle battery makers — appear unlikely to produce a breakthrough in their high-stakes trade secret case over EV batteries ahead of next week’s final ruling in the United States, industry officials said Monday. A key issue [...]
DAEJEON, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite a drop in patent-related lawsuits in the U.S., so-called non-practicing entities (NPEs) are still actively filing lawsuits against Korean companies, Also known as “patent trolls,” NPEs refer to entities that generate profits from licensing or enforcing patents. Overall patent suits in the U.S. have declined every year since [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s 30 biggest conglomerates were found to be engaged in over 13 trillion won (US$11 billion) worth of lawsuits in the first half of the year, a local market research firm said Wednesday. In their earnings reports for the January-June period, 176 affiliates of the top 30 business [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of civil and family lawsuits and criminal cases filed last year hit an 18-year high not seen since the Korean financial Crisis in 1998. According to data released on Monday by the administrative department at the Supreme Court of Korea, the number of lawsuits filed in 2016 [...]