Background A defendant identified as A was charged with multiple violations of Korea’s Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment of Sexual Violence Crimes (the Sexual…
I. The Big Picture 1. Overview of the D-10 Visa and Legal Basis The D-10 (Job Seeker) status of stay is granted to foreign nationals with…
I. The Big Picture 1. Overview of the D-8 Visa The D-8 (Corporate Investor) status of stay is a long-term status of stay granted to essential…
I. The Big Picture 1. Overview of the D-4 Visa The D-4 visa is a long-term status of stay granted to foreign nationals who intend to…
I. The Big Picture 1. Overview of the D-2 Visa The D-2 visa is a long-term status of stay granted to foreign nationals who intend to…
Korea’s Supreme Court has drawn a clear line between two types of covertly obtained evidence in a marital infidelity case: photographs taken of a spouse’s phone…
Two Chinese nationals who repeatedly photographed South Korean and US military facilities and attempted to intercept air traffic communications have been sentenced to prison in what…
A Korean administrative court has ruled that a former spouse who was legally married but had been living entirely separately for years — with no genuine…
When only one side appeals part of a split verdict, the unappealed portion becomes legally final and is off-limits for the appellate court — even if…
A Korean court has invalidated a public library’s decision to permanently ban a disruptive patron, finding that while some restriction was warranted, a lifetime ban exceeds…
A Korean court has ruled that a parent whose relentless and sometimes fabricated complaints caused a school administrator to develop depression and facial paralysis must pay…
A Korean insurance agent who created a detailed manual coaching clients on how to fake heart arrhythmia symptoms — and how to manipulate medical tests to…
A Korean appellate court has overturned a verbal insult conviction, finding that the presence of a single bystander who never passed the information on to anyone…
South Korea’s Supreme Court has ruled that a terminal patient’s difficulty speaking does not automatically disqualify a dictated will — and that courts must look beyond…
A valid arrest warrant does not automatically justify its execution. If the suspect voluntarily appears at the agreed time and shows no signs of fleeing or…
A Korean appellate court has voided a law firm’s retainer clause that required clients to pay a fixed ₩30 million penalty for terminating the engagement —…
A Korean dog trainer who injured a small elderly poodle by physically restraining it for fourteen minutes after it bit him has had his animal abuse…
1. Overview and Legal Basis Any foreign national seeking to enter the Republic of Korea must hold a status of stay (visa) (Immigration Act, Article 10(1)).…
A Korean appellate court has confirmed a four-year custodial sentence for a man who started a fatal fire in his studio apartment while trying to kill…
A Seoul court has ruled that a matchmaking service member who married through the agency but concealed the fact — and quietly withdrew his membership before…
A Korean appellate court has overturned a conviction for misappropriation of lost property, finding that suspicious behavior on a bus — without direct evidence of the…
A Seoul court has held the organizers of a large-scale marathon jointly liable for catastrophic injuries suffered by a 77-year-old woman who was struck by a…
Submitting someone else’s urine to evade a drug test does not constitute obstruction of official duties — if the police demand for the sample was itself…
A Korean court has issued a rare mutual damages ruling — ordering a sexual assault perpetrator to compensate his victim, while also finding the victim liable…
A second lower court has now pushed back against the Supreme Court’s 2015 blanket prohibition on criminal success fees, ruling that such agreements should be evaluated…
Korea’s Supreme Court has ruled that where a defendant was absent from both the trial and appellate proceedings through no fault of his own — and…
A Korean administrative court has ruled that an employer cannot impose a form of disciplinary action that does not appear in its own internal disciplinary rules…
A fire station interviewer who misused a job applicant’s personal information cannot be prosecuted under the Personal Information Protection Act’s dual liability provision — because the…
A Seoul court has thrown out criminal charges against a university professor and graduate student on the grounds that the prosecutor who investigated the case was…
A Korean appellate court has confirmed that a pharmacy and a medical clinic located on the same floor of the same building do not violate the…
A Korean administrative court has drawn a clear line between two types of preferential treatment for military veterans in hiring: crediting service time toward pay is…
A Korean insurer’s right to cancel a policy for a policyholder’s failure to report a change in occupation does not begin running from when a claim…
A doctor who secretly administered propofol to over a hundred patients under the guise of cosmetic procedures — pocketing ₩4.1 billion in the process — has…
When a decade-long law firm partnership collapsed, a dispute over a shared email account ended up in court. The ruling clarifies that jointly used business assets…
South Korea’s Supreme Court has ruled that annual performance bonuses tied to a company’s net profit are not “wages” in the legal sense and therefore cannot…
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