South Korea's main appellate court, hearing civil, criminal, and administrative appeals from district courts, including corporate and regulatory cases.
Roh Soh-yeong did not file a cross-appeal against SK chairman Chey Tae-won's Supreme Court appeal of her 944 billion won award. Chey has limited his challenge to 244 billion won, the Korea Herald reported, so 700 billion won is no longer in dispute.
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Seoul High Court gave Genencell founder Kang four years in prison, reversing his acquittal over 600 million won paid to a broker's company. The ruling rests on recorded calls tying that money to an approach to Rep. Kim Seung-won.
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SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won is selling 944 billion won of SK Inc. stock, cutting his personal stake to 15.5% from 17.9%. A price return swap on 400 billion won of it leaves him carrying that slice's gains and losses, so he has shed less SK exposure than the stake cut shows.
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Seoul High Court rules Oct. 23 on Mayor Oh Se-hoon's appeal of a 10 million won fine that would cost him his post under the Political Funds Act. Daegu Mayor Choo Kyung-ho and Rep. Kim Gi-hyeon also face special-counsel verdicts from mid-October, so the opposition has two city halls and an Assembly seat before the courts this autumn.
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Coupang is suing South Korea's Fair Trade Commission for seven days' written notice, after the agency gave none in 701 on-site inspections since 2023. The case turns on one retail law's absence from an exemption list, so a win would touch only the inspections run under it.
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Korean courts granted 31 of 39 corporate requests this year to suspend Fair Trade Commission decisions, against a 61.4% rate over the prior decade. What companies win is time before sanctions apply, and what that time is worth depends on how the main lawsuits end.
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Seoul High Court jailed Genencell founder Kang for four years, ruling that 600 million won paid to a broker was compensation for lobbying via a lawmaker. The ruling contradicts one of the two reasons prosecutors gave in 2024 for suspending the indictment of lawmaker Kim Seung-won.
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Seoul High Court rules Nov. 20 on whether Kakao founder Kim Beom-su manipulated SM Entertainment shares with 110 billion won of buying. Prosecutors seek 15 years against an acquittal built as much on facts as on law.
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Coupang and Hanwha have taken Fair Trade Commission investigations to court before any ruling, and courts have provisionally frozen an inspection decision and a document order. The FTC says it will prove the legality of its actions in the main proceedings.
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Samyang, Sajo Dongaone, Daehan Flour Mills and TS Corporation have had payment and price-rollback orders put on hold, and the trials that decide whether the money is owed will turn on which sales the FTC counted.
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The Supreme Court confirmed the FTC's order against GS Retail, accepting that paperwork alone does not make a return voluntary. The burden in Korean retail moves from forms to evidence.
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The Supreme Court sent Tendom's case against Jinhaksa back to the Seoul High Court, ruling the startup never proved its review data was used. Burden of proof did the work.
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