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 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that grandparents can legally adopt their own grandchild, even though the child’s biological parent is alive, when the arrangement is in the interest of the child’s welfare. The top court ruled in favor grandparents who filed an appeal to adopt their own grandchildren, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The top court has launched a study on whether or not to introduce a process of discovery, a practice common in Anglo-American countries that enables both parties in a court dispute to inspect each other’s evidence in advance before court proceedings begin. The Supreme Court announced on Wednesday that [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Friday finalized a 13-year prison sentence for a former national short track speed skating coach charged with sexually assaulting an Olympic gold medalist. Cho Jae-beom, 40, was indicted in 2019 on charges of sexually assaulting Shim Suk-hee on 27 occasions at various training facilities from [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday imports of childlike sex dolls should be banned, because they could lead to the perception of children as sexual objects and increase the danger of potential sex crimes against minors. The ruling overturned lower courts’ decisions that imports of child sex dolls should be [...]