SEJONG, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent analysis of tax data has revealed significant income disparities within South Korea’s professional sectors, with lawyers and accountants showing particularly pronounced inequality. According to a report released on October 7 by Park Sung-hoon, a lawmaker from the People Power Party, the top 10% of earners in these professions accounted [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will now reveal the names of lawyers and the law firms for each ruling posted on the Supreme Court website. The Supreme Court has been allowing visitors to search for criminal rulings on the website as well as other rulings from [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Judicial Research & Training Institute held a completion ceremony on Monday with 117 pre-judicial officers. More than half of the 117 graduates of the institute have yet to decide their career. These pre-judicial officers can choose between lawyer, prosecutor, court trial researcher, and public sector worker. Only 43 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A 59-year-old lawyer named Hwang Yong-hwan said Wednesday that he filed a constitutional appeal claiming that appointing 1,500 lawyers every year is threatening the livelihood of existing lawyers. “The sixth bar exam (for lawyers), scheduled for next year, will admit some 1,500 new lawyers, the same as before, and [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – “No” and “it shouldn’t” were the answers by global scholars on artificial intelligence during Monday’s press conference for the 2016 International Judicial Symposium. The press conference featured Oren Etzioni, Director of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and Roman Yampolskiy, Director of the Cyber-Security Lab at University of Louisville, [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Prosecutors on Wednesday said some hundreds of people, including scores of brokers and lawyers, have been indicted on charges of providing unlawful legal service to people applying for personal bailout programs. The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office said it arrested 225 suspects — including 181 brokers and 41 lawyers [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean legal service providers are trying to implement AI technology into their offerings. Although legal service was an area deemed irreplaceable by AI, there are simpler tasks in the industry that may be AI replaceable. Help-Me, a legal counseling platform, revealed that it is presenting a new service called [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Prosecutors formally arrested a judge-turned-lawyer accused of accepting billions of won from clients in exchange for promises to use her connections and influence over courts to help them win lighter sentences. The Seoul Central District Court issued the arrest warrant for lawyer Choi You-jeong Thursday night over suspicions that [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – If your grandparent is a Supreme Court justice, you just might have a better chance at getting accepted to law school. There has been growing controversy over law school applicants mentioning their high-profile family members ranging from public officers to senior prosecutors in their cover letters. It was recently [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean prosecutors have launched an investigation into lawyers who have stepped into the real estate business. It seems like the second round has started in the battle between lawyers and realtors over a market worth two trillion won. The Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office announced that it had assigned the ‘Trust [...]