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Multimillion-dollar damages lawsuits against actor Kim Soo-hyun are moving forward again after months of delays, following the arrest of YouTuber Kim Se-ui over allegations that he spread false claims and fabricated evidence in the Kim Sae-ron controversy. The Seoul Central District Court has scheduled a July 3 hearing in a 2.8 billion won ($1.8 million) damages suit filed by a cosmetics company against Kim Soo-hyun and his agency, Gold Medalist. The cosmetics firm, which had employed Kim Soo-hy

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Could SpaceX, OpenAI IPOs derail Korea's chip rally?

The blockbuster IPOs of SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic could trigger a bout of profit-taking in South Korea's soaring chip stocks, as investors rotate capital into some of Wall Street's most anticipated listings. Elon Musk's rocket and satellite maker SpaceX aims to list its shares as early as June 12, in what could become the biggest initial public offering of all time. Anthropic, developer of the Claude AI model, has also recently filed to go public, setting the stage for a closely watched IPO r

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Over 130,000 Koreans appeal exclusion from fuel price aid

The government has received 134,000 complaints from Koreans appealing their exclusion from a nationwide subsidy program rolled out last month to help households cope with higher fuel costs caused by the Middle East conflict. The Ministry of the Interior and Safety said it had processed 106,000 appeals filed between May 18 and 27, approving 90,300 requests for the subsidy as of Sunday. About 34.6 percent of the complaints were filed by people whose status as financially vulnerable had not yet bee

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Opposition Party Files Complaint Against Lee over Alleged Election Law Violation

[Politics] : The main opposition People Power Party (PPP) on Saturday filed a police complaint against President Lee Jae Myung, alleging he violated election law during early voting by leaving a booth while holding a marked ballot. PPP Chairman Jang Dong-hyeok submitted the complaint Saturday afternoon, arguing that ... [more...]

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Rights groups sue US detention center

Civil rights groups have filed a lawsuit over alleged human rights abuses at the US' largest immigration detention center in El Paso, Texas, where three people have died in the nine months ‌since it opened. The American Civil Liberties Union, and other groups, brought the complaint on behalf of four people currently held at Camp East Montana, a sprawling tent encampment set up under US President Donald Trump's mass-deportation strategy. The action, filed in US District Court Western District of

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Iran's Bank Mellat wins W10b damages suit against Korea’s central bank

A Seoul court ruled in favor of Iran’s major commercial bank in a damages suit filed against the Bank of Korea, ordering the Korean central bank to pay 10 billion won ($7.3 million) plus delayed interest. Bank Mellat filed the suit in December 2024 after the Bank of Korea refused to accept its funds into the central bank’s standing deposit facility from June 13, 2019. The facility allows financial institutions, including banks, to deposit excess reserves overnight at an interest rate below the B

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Kim Soo-hyun suit could seek damages of up to W30b from YouTuber

Actor Kim Soo-hyun’s legal team said Thursday it is considering seeking up to 30 billion won ($19.9 million) in damages from Kim Se-ui, head of controversial YouTube channel HoverLab, who was recently arrested on charges including spreading false information and fabricating evidence. Speaking on a radio program, Kim Soo-hyun’s legal representative, attorney Ko Sang-rok, said the actor had initially filed a 12 billion won suit shortly after the allegations against him surfaced, but the estimated

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Court Rejects Non-Chip Workers’ Bid to Halt Labor Talks at Samsung

[Economy] : A local court has dismissed an injunction request filed by workers at one of Samsung Electronics’ non-chip units seeking to suspend wage and labor negotiations led by the company’s largest union. The Suwon District Court said Tuesday that the applicant, a union representing the device experience ... [more...]

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Samsung Electronics Shareholders to Put Off Lawsuit to Nullify Deal with Labor

[Domestic] : A group of Samsung Electronics shareholders has decided to put off filing its lawsuit to nullify a tentative wage deal between the company and its labor union. The group told media outlets on Tuesday that it will pursue the lawsuit after seeing the outcome of a court case filed by workers at the ... [more...]

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Nonchip union seeks injunction against Samsung wage vote

The vote on Samsung Electronics’ tentative 2026 wage agreement faces a last-minute legal challenge after a union representing employees outside the company’s chip business asked a court to halt the ballot. claiming its members were unfairly excluded. The Samsung Electronics Donghaeng Labor Union said Tuesday it had filed for an injunction with the Suwon District Court to suspend the ongoing vote on the tentative agreement reached between the company and the bargaining representative union. Aroun

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Police Speed Up Investigation of Shinsegae Chief over Starbucks Korea’s ‘Tank Day’ Promotion

[Domestic] : Police are accelerating their investigation into Shinsegae Group Chairman Chung Yong-jin after a Starbucks Korea marketing campaign generated public outrage on the anniversary of the May 18 Gwangju Democratization Movement. On Friday, police questioned the head of a civic group who’d filed a complaint ... [more...]

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