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Lee Jae-myung misses fourth court date; summons and detention measures considered
Lee Jae-myung misses fourth court date; summons and detention measures considered
Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, was summoned as a witness in the trial of the private developers of the Daejang-dong project on the 31st but did not appear again. Previously, Lee did not attend the trials on the 21st, 24th, and 28th, resulting in a total of 8 million won ...
Supreme Court orders 10 billion won compensation for Gangneung hydrogen explosion
The Supreme Court ruled that five public and private corporations responsible for the hydrogen storage tank project at the Gangwon Province Gangneung Science Industrial Complex, where an explosion occurred in 2019, must compensate the businesses affected by the incident with over 10 billion won. Acc...
Prosecution appeals Lee Jae-myung's acquittal on election law violation
The prosecution filed an appeal on the 27th, just one day after Lee Jae-myung, the representative of the Democratic Party of Korea, was acquitted in the appeals trial for violating the Public Official Election Act. The Seoul High Court announced in a statement sent to the media that 'the appeal brie...
Lee & Ko hires international arbitration expert Zachary Sharpe to boost team
Lee & Ko (Managing Partner Kim Sang-gon) announced on the 27th that it has recruited Zachary Sharpe, an international arbitration expert from a global law firm. According to Lee & Ko, Sharpe served as the head of the international disputes team at Jones Day's Singapore office, a world-renowned law f...
Court rules South Korea to compensate students for early exam bell incident
A first-instance court ruling has determined that the state should compensate the examinees for damages related to the incident where the exam ending bell rang one minute early during the 2024 college entrance examination at Kyungdong High School in Seoul. The Seoul Central District Court Civil Divi...
Sinan County mayor Park Woo-ryang convicted of nepotism, receives suspended sentence
Park Woo-ryang, the mayor of Sinan County in Jeollanam-do, has been sentenced to 8 months in prison with a 2-year probation in a case involving allegations of soliciting favors for hiring relatives. Consequently, Mayor Park has been disqualified from his position. The Supreme Court’s first division,...
Moon Hyung-bae discloses 1.5 billion won as Constitutional Court officials report assets
Moon Hyung-bae, acting president of the Constitutional Court, was found to have assets worth 1.54379 billion won as of the end of last year. The person who reported the most assets among high-ranking officials of the Constitutional Court was Justice Lee Mi-sun, who reported 7.52366 billion won. The ...
Seoul High Court acquits Lee Jae-myung of election law violations
On the 26th, Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, was acquitted in the appeal trial of the election law violation case. On that day, the Seoul High Court ruled that Lee's statements claiming he 'did not know the late Kim Moon-ki, who was a key practitioner during his time as m...
Court rules Lee Jae-myung's land use statement not false in Baekhyeon-dong case
On the 26th, the Seoul High Court determined that Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the Democratic Party, could not be punished for publicly disseminating false information after stating that he changed the land use of the Baekhyeon-dong site at the request of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Tra...
Seoul High Court clears Lee Jae-myung of lying about golf with Kim Moon-ki
The Seoul High Court on the 26th ruled that Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung did not publish false facts when he stated that he did not play golf with the late Kim Moon-ki, former head of the Seongnam Urban Development Corporation, who was a key practitioner in the Daejang-dong case during his ...
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