A Seoul court has upheld a manager's one-month pay cut, ruling that his remark telling a 'pretty employee' to sit next to the company president constituted workplace sexual harassment.
Homeplus announced plans to accelerate its operational normalization and restructuring, including a Trader Joe's-style store revamp, after a Seoul court extended its court-led rehabilitation process.
A Seoul court has sentenced a Vietnamese woman in her 20s to 10 years in prison after finding her guilty of causing her newborn's death by abandoning the baby outdoors in freezing conditions.
A Seoul court is scheduled to deliver its verdict this week on former first lady Kim Keon Hee, who faces charges of receiving luxury gifts in exchange for job appointments and business favors.
A Seoul court has ordered election authorities to provide details on the disposal of a ballot storage container from a polling station in Songpa-gu, which was discarded despite an earlier request to preserve it as evidence.
A Seoul court rejected a request to suspend an exit ban against Morse Tan, a Korean American scholar under investigation for allegedly defaming President Lee Jae Myung. Legal sources confirmed the Seoul Administrative Court's decision.
A Seoul court is scheduled to hear a case against YouTuber Kim Se-eui, who is accused of using manipulated screenshots and AI-generated audio to make false claims about actor Kim Soo-hyun. Media reports indicate the YouTuber allegedly fabricated evidence to defame the top actor.
A Seoul court ruled in favor of Bithumb, temporarily suspending a six-month partial business suspension imposed by regulators, allowing the crypto exchange to continue operations pending a final decision.
A Seoul court sentenced a man to 10 months in prison for flashing, as public fatigue grows over the resurgence of indecent exposure cases, some involving illegal filming.
A Seoul court dismissed an injunction request filed by Rep. Joo Ho-young against the People Power Party's decision to exclude him from the nomination for Daegu mayor in the upcoming local elections.
A Seoul court has ordered SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won to pay his ex-wife 944 billion won ($645 million), marking the largest divorce award in South Korean history.
Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been sentenced to two years in prison over an illegal opinion polls scheme and political funding violations. This marks an additional conviction for the ex-leader.
A Vietnamese university student received a 10-year prison sentence from a Seoul court for abandoning her newborn baby near Dongguk University last year, which resulted in the infant's death.
A Seoul court has requested that the Fair Trade Commission (FTC) clarify its reasoning behind designating Coupang founder Bom Kim as the firm's controlling figure.
A Seoul court has ordered the preservation of ballot storage boxes and other materials from a polling station in Songpa-gu as evidence, following a ballot shortage incident during the June 3 local elections.
A Seoul court has temporarily halted the Fair Trade Commission's decision to designate Coupang founder Kim Bom-suk as the e-commerce giant's de facto chief.
A Seoul court reportedly approved Ador's request to freeze assets belonging to former NewJeans member Danielle's mother and former CEO Min Hee-jin. The total claim amounts to 7 billion won.
A Seoul court has ruled against a transgender woman seeking to overturn a military classification, upholding South Korea's military guidelines that require at least six months of hormone therapy for recognition of a full gender transition.
A Seoul court on Wednesday sentenced an obstetrician to six years in prison for performing a cesarean on a 36-week pregnant woman and killing the baby, amid a lack of legal provisions to regulate…
A Seoul appellate court is set to deliver its verdict on the closely watched asset division case between SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won and his former wife, Roh Soh-yeong, nearly a decade after divorce proceedings began.
A Seoul court has issued the country's first 'easy-read' court ruling, utilizing AI to rewrite a complex legal judgment in plain Korean with visual aids for a plaintiff with an intellectual disability.
A Seoul appeals court has upheld a six-month prison sentence for US livestreamer Johnny Somali, who caused public outrage last year by kissing a statue commemorating victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery.
SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won and his former wife, Roh Soh-yeong, are back in a Seoul courtroom for a property dispute, with the final payout amount hinging on the contested date used to value the company's significantly increased chip stock.
A Seoul court is scheduled to deliver its verdict this week on charges against former President Yoon Suk Yeol, who is accused of ordering drone incursions into Pyongyang to declare martial law.
A Seoul court ruled in favor of Iran’s Bank Mellat, ordering the Bank of Korea to pay 10 billion won ($7.3 million) plus delayed interest in a damages suit.
A court in Seoul has extended the term of a former minister involved in a martial law case. Further details regarding the specific case or minister were not provided.
A Seoul administrative court has ordered the cancellation of a 68.7 billion won ($46.7 million) tax bill imposed on Netflix Services Korea, ruling partially in favor of the streaming giant's local unit.
A state compensation suit filed by 117 women, alleging forced sexual slavery for US troops in South Korea in the 1950s, has reached the Seoul Central District Court for its first preparatory hearing.
Ousted South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol on Friday remained defiant in his first reaction to a life sentence for rebellion handed down by a Seoul court the previous day.
In a statement released by his lawyers, Yoon maintained that his abrupt and short-lived declaration of martial law in December 2024 was done “solely for the sake of the nation and our people”, and dismissed the Seoul Central District Court as biased against him.
Yoon, who was removed from office amid a political crisis set...