SEOUL, Apr. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court has confirmed the conviction of a liquor tycoon’s scion indicted for offering illicit business favors to a subsidiary, judicial officials said Wednesday. In a ruling made March 12, the top court upheld a prison sentence of one year and three months, suspended for two years, for [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s anti-trust regulator on Tuesday slapped a 526 million won (US$437,000) fine on Pizza Hut Korea for its unfair business practice against local outlets. The U.S.-based restaurant chain has collected a total of 6.8 billion won from franchisees here in the name of marketing and management fees outside [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — From now on, book publishers will need explicit permissions from the authors for all creative works including children’s storybooks when they use the contents for secondary purposes. The Fair Trade Commission said on August 28 that it has ordered Korea’s top-20 publishing houses to improve their terms and conditions with authors including [...]