SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Taking photos of body parts covered by tight clothing can also be considered a type of sexual offense, the nation’s top court has said. The Supreme Court said Wednesday it has remanded the case of a man who was found not guilty of sexual crimes to an appeals division [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean courts have issued a series of tough rulings against used car fraud rings. In an appeal case for a man who was indicted for criminal group activity and fraud, the Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the original sentence in which the accused was found not guilty. The [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A Jehovah’s Witness who objected military service based on his religious faith has been convicted for violation of the Military Service Act. The grounds for the guilty verdict was that he previously enjoyed playing online shooting games, killing other gamers without feeling any pangs of conscience. For the man [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top court said Tuesday it has decided to recommend a maximum of 12 years of imprisonment for drunk driving offenses leading to deaths. The Supreme Court’s Sentencing Commission announced a revised sentencing guideline for convicted DUI offenders after a tougher DUI law took effect in December 2018. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top court on Monday confirmed a lower court ruling that sentenced a former provincial governor to 3 1/2 years in prison for sexually abusing his secretary in one of the country’s most high-profile MeToo cases. The Supreme Court handed down the ruling to former South Chungcheong Province [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Wearing rainbow-colored clothes that symbolize the human rights of sexual minorities, students attended chapel classes. These students were punished by the school, but the court ruled that punishment meted out by the university was unfair and unjustified. On Thursday, the Seoul Eastern District Court nullified all disciplinary measures and [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court ruled that a recently divorced female immigrant can extend her visa status as a married immigrant by proving that the Korean ex-husband was ‘mainly responsible’ for the divorce. The court overruled a previous decision on a case filed by a Vietnamese woman against Seoul Southern Immigration [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean Supreme Court will now decide if standing naked on the balcony of a hotel room amounts to indecent exposure. The issue erupted in controversy after a 30-year-old man, who was seen naked on the balcony of a hotel in Busan, was fined. “Indecent behavior does not [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Thursday recognized the age of 65 as the maximum age that people are physically fit to work, breaking a nearly 30-year precedent that will likely reshape the notion of retirement and impact related industries. In a 10-3 vote, the full bench reversed an appellate court [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean pharmaceutical companies are expressing grave concern as a recent Supreme Court decision may freeze the development of certain incrementally modified drugs. For long, pharmaceutical companies in South Korea have been releasing modified drugs that change certain saline substances, the strength, and dosage regimen of the original drug [...]