SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The Supreme Court of South Korea has made a landmark ruling that the admissibility of secretly recorded conversations as evidence in court cases may be denied if they significantly invade personal privacy. The judgment came in the case of an individual referred to only as Choi and three others, who [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) –The Supreme Court on Thursday finalized a guilty sentence for the operator of Bad Fathers, a website publicly blacklisting child support defaulters. The court upheld a lower court’s decision and finalized its suspended ruling of a fine of 1 million won ($763.65) for the 61-year-old website operator, Koo Bon-chang. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The “You Are the Judge” sentencing experience program offered by the Supreme Court’s Sentencing Commission is set to release new content on Friday. This program engages participants in watching videos depicting real-life crimes, presenting arguments from defendants, defense attorneys, and prosecutors. Participants then play the role of a judge, selecting [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – A road maintenance company has been sanctioned by the Supreme Court for compelling parents of young children to work early morning and holiday shifts and subsequently refusing to retain them when they resisted compliance. The ruling declares that the company failed to fulfill its duty of consideration under the Equal [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court’s ruling that ordered humidifier disinfectant manufacturers to pay compensation to a victim of the chemical. The civil litigation began in February 2015, when the victim, surnamed Kim, who used a humidifier sanitizer product made and sold by Oxy Reckitt Benckiser [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld lower courts’ acquittal of nine former officials of the Korea Coast Guard, who were all charged with failing to carry out their duty in the rescue operation for the sinking of the Sewol ferry in 2014. The top court said there was no [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a 20-year prison sentence for the so-called spin kick assailant in the southeastern port city of Busan, who caused social outrage last year due to his brutal attacks on a female stranger for the purpose of rape. The defendant, whose identity has been [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court has finalized a decision not to punish an Iranian national charged with obtaining a visa based on a fake document, citing an international refugee convention prohibiting the punishment of refugees for illegal entry. The Iranian applied for refugee status in South Korea in March 2016 after [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday it is illegal to deny transgender people the right to change their legal sex status solely on the grounds that they have underage children. The ruling was made in a request filed in 2019 by a naturally born man who underwent a sex reassignment [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against the peak wage system introduced by a large number of local companies to gradually cut the salaries of senior workers several years before retirement. The top court said the peak wage system is an illegal discrimination against workers on the basis of [...]