SEOUL, Jul. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – For Samsik (a pseudonym), a 34-year-old man who has been in a same-sex relationship for 11 years, the recent Supreme Court decision recognizing health insurance dependency status for same-sex couples brought tears of joy and a sense of long-awaited acknowledgment. “Even after loving someone for so long, it was always [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean medical community has reacted strongly to a recent Supreme Court ruling involving a surgeon who faced legal consequences for delaying surgery on a patient with a small bowel obstruction due to professional negligence. In the past month, the top court upheld the decision regarding an individual referred [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — An appellate court on Tuesday dismissed an appeal filed by a self-proclaimed socialist to reverse the conscription agency’s refusal to allow him alternative military service. Since late 2020, the South Korea has operated an alternative military service system, allowing young men to replace their mandatory military service with an [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that the current law stipulating a prison sentence of at least seven years for those charged with trespassing into someone else’s house to commit sexual offenses is unconstitutional. The court unanimously made the ruling in response to separate petitions from the Jeonju District Court [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court has ordered rapper Dok2, famously known for his extravagant lifestyle on media, to pay an unpaid jewelry bill to an overseas jeweler, legal sources said Monday. Upholding a lower court’s ruling, the Seoul Southern District Court delivered a mandatory mediation, ordering the 31-year-old, Lee Joon-kyung, to [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A court on Friday sentenced a 49-year-old man to 22 years in prison for attempting to murder all three members of a neighboring family over a noise dispute. The man, whose identity was withheld, allegedly stormed into the family’s home on the third floor of an apartment building in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The justice ministry on Friday ordered the military to drop its plan to challenge a court ruling that said it was unjust for the military to discharge a transgender soldier over her gender reassignment surgery. Justice Minister Park Beom-kye accepted a recommendation from an advising committee on administrative suits [...]
DAEJEON/SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A court ruled Thursday in favor of a deceased transgender solider in a suit filed to get the Army’s decision to discharge her repealed, a landmark ruling that could have deep repercussions in the way South Korean society treats sexual minorities. The Daejeon District Court said that the military [...]
WASHINGTON/SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A U.S. trade panel on Wednesday again postponed a much-awaited ruling on a trade secret dispute involving South Korean battery makers LG Energy Solution Ltd. and SK Innovation Co. to Feb. 10. The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) postponed the final ruling slated for Dec. 10 without elaborating on [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — An appellate court on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s ruling in favor of Samsung Electronics Co.’s bid to ban the government from disclosing sensitive work environment-related information. The Suwon High Court in Suwon, south of Seoul, said Samsung’s work environment measurement report, which lists toxic materials to which company [...]