South Korea's highest court, the final court of appeal for civil, criminal, and administrative cases nationwide.
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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South Korea's Supreme Court promulgated Rule 3280 on Oct. 12, letting courts freeze, seize and sell crypto to recover unpaid debts. Officers can take directly held coins before the debtor is notified, though CryptoSlate says self-custodied keys may keep enforcement hard.
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South Korea's Supreme Court let stand a ruling cancelling about 154 billion won in taxes on Google Korea over payments to its Singapore affiliate. The tax office lost its royalty theory in two courts, and the only reasoning on record is the lower courts'.
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Korea's Supreme Court upheld a 30.8 million won award against a landlord who refused a renewal to move in, then re-leased the home. Using the owner-occupancy exception to reset a jeonse deposit now carries a damages bill and a duty to prove cause.
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Forced-auction sales in Seoul hit 3,854 from January to July, up 44% and the most since 2010, Supreme Court registry data show. Growth has slowed every year since 2023, and actress Seo Hyun-jin's case shows a failed jeonse lease can take more than two years to reach a sale.
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South Korea's Supreme Court upheld HSBC Hong Kong's acquittal on 15.8 billion won of alleged naked short sales, the country's first such criminal case. Its holding that an unexecuted sell order is not the offence gives the next prosecution a stricter test to meet.
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South Korea's Supreme Court ruled that gathering proxies for one meeting does not make shareholders joint holders under the 5% disclosure rule. A group owning under 5% can collect revocable proxies and vote them without filing a stake report.
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Korea's Supreme Court upheld suspended terms for Sewha IMC's founder and son, whom the appeals court found to have embezzled 8.2 billion and 14 billion won. A trial court had sentenced them to three to five years in prison over the embezzlement.
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The Supreme Court's Sentencing Commission recommends up to 15 years for an owner or chief executive when a worker dies, and reaching that figure takes the aggravated bracket, multiple aggravating factors and a 50% uplift.
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The court treated points earned at one Lotte affiliate and spent at another as a discount off the second sale, and it struck down the enforcement decree that had put those amounts back into the tax base.
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The remand settles no liability. It orders the Busan District Court to work out what the rent should have been first, which turns a landlord's pricing discretion into an evidentiary fight it has to fund.
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An SK Chemicals subsidiary's chief executive was acquitted because a dump truck driver's error was never in the risk assessment, while three other chief executives drew one, two and three years for breaches the courts could tie to a death.
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The Ministry of Employment and Labor wants routine reassignments tied to building or expanding a workplace kept out of bargaining and dispute scope, which hands chipmakers a quieter path from capex to a staffed fab. The final text is due next week.
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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 Donghaeng union is rallying at Seocho on the 21st for stock worth more than 12 trillion won, reopening a wage deal a minister brokered in May and a court declined to suspend in June.
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Chey Tae-won's second appeal was not triggered by the size of the award but by the medium of payment. Cash or SK stock is now a governance question for SK holders.
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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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