A metal worker who spent over thirteen years cutting and grinding steel and aluminum in an unventilated underground workspace — and died of lung cancer —…
A defendant who learned that judgment had been entered against him — but did not know the judgment had been served through public notice rather than…
A man who posted a fake mass stabbing threat online — triggering the deployment of armored vehicles, special forces units, and 529 police officers over nearly…
A golfer who lost her balance and fell from a moving golf cart while drinking water has won damages against the golf course operator — even…
Court and Division: Seoul Administrative Court, Administrative Division 12 Presiding Judge: Kang Jae-won Case Type: Action to revoke disciplinary action Decision: Plaintiff’s claim upheld Factual Background…
Two members of a Seoul university drug ring — including a licensed physician — have had their narcotics convictions permanently overturned because the prosecutor who charged…
Korea’s Supreme Court has confirmed a damages award against Nippon Steel Corporation in favor of the bereaved family of a wartime forced labor victim — and…
A woman whose husband confessed to a seven-year affair on his deathbed has won a civil damages claim against his affair partner — a woman who…
A customer who suffered second-degree burns after hot ginger tea spilled from a disposable cup has lost her damages claim against the café — with the…
Two Korean civil courts have now ruled that a victim of deepfake sexual imagery is entitled to compensation for psychological suffering caused by the existence of…
A university professor who told another student that his advisee was receiving treatment for depression has been convicted of defamation — with the court finding that…
A building owner who continued renting his motel to a tenant he knew was running a prostitution operation cannot keep the rent he received during that…
Factual Background A, a 27-year-old male gym trainer in Daegu, went with coworkers to a wakeboarding facility in July 2021 around 10 a.m. At the dock,…
Police have cleared the head of Asiana Airlines’ pilot union of defamation charges brought by Korean Air pilots — finding insufficient evidence that he committed an…
Court: Supreme Court, Criminal Division 2 (Presiding Justice Park Young-jae) Case No.: 2026Do171 Decision Date: May 14, 2026 Factual Background The defendant, A, was the director…
A foreign national who purchased land worth over ₩33.8 billion for a major tourism development project in Jeju has been denied entry to Korea — and…
A third lower court has now openly challenged the Supreme Court’s 2015 en banc ruling that made criminal success fees categorically void — finding that the…
A Korean court has ordered an insurer to pay the full policy limit of ₩100 million to a woman whose face was bitten by a large…
A producer who worked for a regional broadcaster for eleven years under successive “freelance” contracts has won a landmark ruling — the Supreme Court holding that…
Korea’s Supreme Court has confirmed that property received by an heir as compensation for long-term caregiving of a deceased parent can be excluded from the calculations…
Hyun Woo-jin, one of Korea’s most prominent private tutoring instructors, has been acquitted at trial of charges that he illegally paid active teachers for mathematics exam…
Korea’s Constitutional Court has ruled that a parent who transfers property to a child cannot later revoke that gift — even if the child subsequently fails…
Korea’s Constitutional Court has for the first time ruled on whether the Military Criminal Act’s mandatory minimum of seven years for sexual assault causing injury within…
In its second significant ruling on criminal insult in as many months, the Supreme Court has reversed a conviction for profanity exchanged during a noise dispute,…
Korea’s Supreme Court, sitting en banc, has significantly narrowed the reach of the military criminal offense of insulting a superior officer — ruling for the first…
A pharmacy professor who directed graduate students to conduct experiments and write research reports for his child’s university applications — and the child who submitted that…
Factual Background In July 2024, the defendant, A, was assaulted and injured by another individual, B, and afterward walked around the area carrying a weapon. Prosecutors…
The D-9 Visa: Starting a Business After Graduation Without Setting Up a Corporation The Problem Who Can Apply — 4 Pathways D-9-1 (Trading Business): D-9-4 (High…
A woman who grabbed a kitchen knife to confront her uncle after he punched her, entered her home, and threatened her with scissors has had her…
In its fourth ruling this year narrowing the scope of criminal insult, the Supreme Court has reversed a conviction for a profanity-laced message sent in an…
Case No. 2026Guhap50232, Seoul Administrative Court, 10th Administrative Division (Presiding Judge Jung Eun-young), Decided April 29, 2026 Factual Background Company A and its representative, B, operated…
Case No. 2026Do1033, Supreme Court, Third Criminal Division (Presiding Justice Lee Heung-gu), Decided May 20, 2026 Factual Background In May 2023, a boundary dispute over land…
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