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 [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Thursday confirmed a 35-year prison sentence for a woman charged with abusing her adopted toddler to death two years ago in one of the country’s most ghastly child abuse cases in recent years. The mother, surnamed Jang, was indicted on murder charges for abusing the [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down guilty verdicts for two male soldiers charged with engaging in homosexual intercourse at an off-base housing facility, saying the encounter was consensual and took place in a private space. The two, a first lieutenant and a master sergeant, were charged with having [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court has ordered tax authorities to refund Samsung Electronics Co. 11.3 billion won (US$9.3 million) in undue corporate taxes from a former patent deal with U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp., court officials said Sunday. Samsung filed the complaint against local tax officials, who purported that the South [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Civic activists have presented a petition to the National Human Rights Commission, claiming that the Supreme Court is damaging the human rights of sexual violence victims by delaying sentences on sexual violence offenders unnecessarily. “The endless delay in the Supreme Court’s sentencing without specific reason is nothing but infringing the personal [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a retrial of a case launched by U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp. seeking a refund of 634 billion won (US$530 million) in purportedly undue withholding taxes paid in South Korea. The top court sent the case back to the appeals court in Suwon, south of [...]