A Korean-Japanese Yakuza member who smuggled 636 kilograms of cannabis into Korea via container ship — enough for 1.27 million people to smoke simultaneously — has…
1. Legal basis and core principles A. Relevant law A foreign national staying in Korea who wants to engage in activities that fall under a different…
1. Overview: what the cases involving foreign nationals have in common the defendants are most often (but not always) foreign nationals from Southeast Asia or Taiwan/China;…
I. When Prescription Drugs and CBD Become a Crime 1. Basic principle: Korean drug laws apply regardless of the law of the country of departure The…
1. Filing a wage claim with the labor office A. Basic principles When an employee leaves, the employer must pay all money owed, including wages and…
1. Are foreign nationals protected as tenants in Korea? A. The core principle Under Korea’s Housing Lease Protection Act, a tenant who has ① taken possession…
1. Administration and Treatment of Correctional Institution Inmates Act (the “Inmates Act”) [Effective October 2, 2026; Act No. 22010] A. Purpose and Basic Principles This Act…
A drug sale is complete when the buyer receives the drugs — not when the transaction is fully settled. Even where the buyer immediately returns the…
A man in his eighties who traveled from Gwangju to Geoje armed with a weapon — entered a hair salon and attempted to kill a staff…
A group of teenagers and young adults who deliberately targeted a sex worker — reasoning she could not report the crime — by posing as clients…
A company executive acquitted at trial of workplace sexual assault charges for putting his arm around a female subordinate’s shoulder and drinking a “love shot” at…
A miner who developed pneumoconiosis from decades of work, whose lung function then declined so severely that he fell into deep depression and died, has been…
A civil court has ordered the parents of a middle school student who sexually harassed and groped a female classmate over several months to pay the…
Two doctors convicted of professional negligence after a 12-year-old patient developed fulminant liver failure and required a liver transplant following a drug reaction have had their…
A middle school teacher convicted of systematically groping 19 students in his classroom over five months has had his sentence reduced from nine years to four…
A 68-year-old man who blocked an officetel parking garage entrance with his Mercedes for forty minutes — after being denied entry due to unpaid maintenance fees…
A woman who drove away from a sexual assault with a blood alcohol level above the legal limit has been acquitted of drunk driving — with…
E-7 at a glance The E-7 (Specific Activities) visa is a long-term work visa for professionals in designated occupations. This post covers 41 E-7 job types.…
A company executive in his sixties who habitually groped a subordinate employee on 50 occasions over two years — and then attempted to rape her in…
A man who pushed his drunk girlfriend during a late-night street argument — causing her to fall and strike her head on concrete, dying five days…
A man in his thirties who installed a recording device in his wife’s car to capture evidence of a suspected affair has been convicted under the…
A 28-year-old contract teacher who repeatedly groped six children aged nine and ten during his classroom assignment has had his three-year suspended sentence upheld on appeal…
The Supreme Court has overturned a conviction for aggravated assault with a dangerous object — finding that a car driven slowly in reverse during a parking…
A man in his thirties who trapped stray cats near his home and killed them over two months — then posted about it in an open…
Korea’s E-7-4 visa is a point-based skilled worker visa. It lets foreign workers already in Korea on certain short-term work visas move to a status built…
Earlier this year, the Ministry of Justice issued a public notice on the operation of the E-7 visa for 2026. The notice includes provisions on E-7…
1. Legal Structure of D-2 and D-4 Status of Stay and Employment Activities Neither the Study Abroad (D-2) nor the General Training (D-4) status of stay…
A first-grade student who pushed a classmate off a 80-centimeter platform during an after-school badminton class has been found not to have committed “school violence” under…
A 23-year-old man who subjected his former school classmate to months of physical abuse — including pressing a gas-heated frying pan against his body — before…
A woman in her forties who sent actor Hwang Jung-min and his family hundreds of KakaoTalk and text messages — including suicide threats and demands to…
The operator of a covert smartphone surveillance app — marketed to people suspecting spousal infidelity and distributed through private investigation agencies — has had a seven-year…
A 75-year-old woman who showed up at a debtor’s office with a bag of kimchi brine and used it — along with her fists — to…
A ‘pension’ (펜션 aka vacation lodging in Korea) operator whose outdoor barbecue table tipped over onto a guest — causing second-degree burns from hot food —…
In what is now the sixth significant insult ruling of 2026, the Supreme Court has overturned a conviction for calling a fellow patient “human trash” during…
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