The Supreme Court has finalized an 18.6 billion won (about $13.8 million) fine and a corrective order that the Fair Trade Commission imposed on U.S. chipmaker Broadcom, which pressured Samsung Electronics into a long-term purchase agreement…
Attorney Jung Cheol-seung, indicted for disclosing the identity of a victim in the sexual assault case involving the late former Seoul Mayor Park Won-sun and for forcibly molesting a junior attorney, was sentenced to one year and six months…
The 2026 Suwon Japan Week will open on Nov. 20 and run through Nov. 26. The event brings together a range of Japanese culture under one roof, including an ukiyo-e exhibition, a traditional Japanese magic show, a candy-craft demonstration, a…
The Fair Trade Commissio has decided to issue a corrective order (to prevent recurrence) and impose a fine of 630 million won (about $450,000) on Celltrion for arbitrarily canceling its subcontract for manufacturing COVID-19 rapid diagnosti…
Lee Eok-won, chair of the Financial Services Commission (FSC), directly presided over a Central Incident Command Center meeting during a training exercise that simulated a compound disaster in which a large sinkhole and a distributed denial…
The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) decided to impose a total fine of 3.885 billion won (about $2.8 million) on education company Daekyo and Young Hoon Medical Group after web vulnerability attacks leaked the personal info…
The Financial Services Commission has finalized sanctions against 29 insurance industry workers implicated in insurance fraud, including revocation of registration for 19, a 180-day business suspension for 7, and a 90-day business suspensio…
An unauthorized external party accessed the travel platform MyRealTrip's system abnormally, resulting in the leakage of eight types of personal information including users' names, email addresses, mobile phone numbers, and dates of birth. S…
Incheon Green Alliance has called on the city of Incheon and the Han River Basin Environmental Office to fully reconsider the Samsan District 4 urban development project after the habitat of the endangered gold-spotted pond frog was confirm…
When a contractor under a third-party unit price contract signed by the Public Procurement Service delivers innovative products to a demand agency by means other than the third-party unit price contract, and the products fail an accredited …
The Fair Trade Commission has decided to impose a corrective order and a fine of 20.114 billion won (about $14.6 million) on Samsung Electronics for omitting from its advertisements the fact that maximum performance is limited immediately u…
The Democratic Party of Korea has decided to push ahead with a parliamentary investigation into allegations surrounding Supreme Court Chief Justice Cho Hui-dae, vowing to uncover the truth. The investigation will look into controversies ove…
At the National Assembly's Administration and Security Committee comprehensive audit, the ruling and opposition parties demanded each other's leaders be indicted for perjury over their answers during the parliamentary audit. The ruling Minj…
After criticism that some items on the KONEPS shopping mall were more expensive than market prices, the Public Procurement Service is rechecking the appropriateness of registered product prices and strengthening comparison and verification …
The Fair Trade Commission imposed corrective orders and public disclosure orders on four private rental apartment developers — Dream Housing, Venice, Haesung Industrial Development and AMD — for recruiting prospective tenant members without…
