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 Foreigners wanting to start a business in Korea normally need a…
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…
A corrections officer at Seoul Detention Center who smuggled food and clothing to a gang-affiliated inmate over three and a half years — receiving ₩70 million…
A Japanese man who groped a sleeping Chinese tourist and urinated on her belongings at a shared dormitory room in Busan has received a suspended sentence…
1. Overview of the F-3 (Accompanying) Status The Accompanying (동반) status of stay is granted, under attached Table 1-2 of Article 12 of the Enforcement Decree…
1. Overview of the F-2 Status The Residence (거주) status of stay is a long-term status set out in attached Table 1-2 of Article 12 of…
1. Overview The Visiting Family/Cohabitation (방문동거) status of stay is a long-term status, granted under Article 12 and item 23 of attached Table 1-2 of the…
1. Overview and Legal Basis E-10 is the Seafarer Employment (선원취업) status of stay, classified as a long-term status under attached Table 1-2 of the Enforcement…
1. Overview and Legal Basis The E-8 (계절근로) status of stay was introduced to meet seasonal labor demand in the agricultural and fishery sectors, based on…
1. The Issue When a foreigner engages in YouTuber activities in Korea, this may constitute a profit-oriented activity, requiring an appropriate status of stay under the…
1. Overview of the E-6 Visa The E-6 visa is a residence status for Arts and Entertainment activities (예술흥행). Under Article 12 of the Enforcement Decree…
1. Overview of the E-5 Visa The E-5 visa corresponds to the “Professional Occupation (전문직업)” status of sojourn set forth in Article 12 of the Enforcement…
1. Overview of the E-4 Visa The E-4 visa is a status of sojourn for Technical Instruction (기술지도) under Article 12 [Attached Table 1-2] of the…
1. Overview and Legal Basis The E-3 visa is a research (연구) status of sojourn under Article 12 and Attached Table 1-2 of the Enforcement Decree…
What’s new Ministry of Justice added a dedicated “Press 1” option to the existing 1345 Foreigner Contact Center specifically for reporting human rights violations, effective since…
A military officer who reported a soldier’s suicide as an accidental discharge has been acquitted on appeal — with the court finding he acted in a…
A Korean court has convicted a man in his thirties for posting online solicitations to find someone to use methamphetamine with — finding that using drug…
The Supreme Court has confirmed a six-year sentence for a man who served as a recruiter and Korean-language manager at a Cambodia-based stock trading scam operation,…
The Supreme Court has ruled that a driver who crossed a solid center line to make a left turn, then struck a pedestrian at the entrance…
The Supreme Court has ruled that a court cannot resort to public notice service and proceed with trial in a defendant’s absence if contact numbers for…
Korea’s Supreme Court has ruled that telling someone “you cheeky little punk, who do you think you are” during a heated argument does not meet the…
Korea’s Supreme Court, sitting en banc, has ruled that a drunk driver who switches seats with a passenger to let that passenger falsely claim responsibility commits…
A man who secretly recorded conversations between his unfaithful spouse and her affair partner — by hiding a recording device on her body and clothing —…
A son convicted and fined for assaulting his father has had his conviction voided — because the father told investigators he did not want his son…
A Korean court has upheld the government’s refusal to naturalize a foreign national whose only disqualifying conduct was using someone else’s passport to enter the country…
A Korean administrative court has ruled that a miner who died of pneumonia must be recognized as an industrial accident fatality — because his work-related pneumoconiosis…
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