SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a retrial of a damages suit against the Korean Metal Workers’ Union regarding its involvement in a violent strike at SsangYong Motor Co. in 2009, seeking a reduction of compensation by one-third. Lower courts had ordered the union to pay 3.31 billion won [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday proposed tougher countermeasures against stalking suspects, such as the imposition of a restraining order, amid growing societywide resentment over the recent murder of a young subway worker by her alleged stalker. The top court said in a statement that stalking suspects who are under [...]
SEOUL, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court has ruled that prison cells with less than two square meters of floor space per person violate human dignity and ordered the state to pay compensation to prisoners who suffered such conditions for the first time, officials said Friday. Two former inmates, who served prison terms [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The top court on Thursday confirmed a not-guilty verdict for a conscientious objector who avoided his mandatory military service due to personal beliefs, in the first case of its kind. The Supreme Court upheld the appellate court’s acquittal of the man, a self-identifying “queer feminist,” indicted on charges of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Overturning an appellate court’s ruling, the Supreme Court on Thursday annulled a decision by the former Park Geun-hye government to outlaw a progressive teachers’ union for accepting a handful of fired teachers as its members, opening the way for the union to regain its legal status. The full bench [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The nation’s top court on Thursday ordered Hyundai Department Store to pay royalties on the music that the company plays at its stores using streaming services, enlarging the scope of the definition of an album. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Federation of Korean Music Performers and [...]