Case Analysis / Legal Updates

We will analyze a Supreme Court judgment that, in a lawsuit for prohibition of business, regarded a convenience store and an ice cream discount store as ‘similar business types.’

We will analyze a Supreme Court judgment holding that, when an insurance proceeds case is heard, the proceeds may have to be paid where the circumstances at the time are examined closely, even if the person who took their own life had never received treatment for a mental illness during their lifetime.

This analysis examines a new Supreme Court decision on the standard for calculating the working hours of university adjunct lecturers who had been classified as ‘very short-time workers’ under the Labor Standards Act.

This analysis examines a recent Supreme Court ruling on the standard by which an "implied renewal of a contract" under the Commercial Building Lease Protection Act should be interpreted.

The Supreme Court has issued a judgment changing its precedent of more than twenty years regarding the scope of the “solid white line” set out in the Act on Special Cases concerning the Settlement of Traffic Accidents (a Korean statute limiting prosecution of traffic-accident offenses where insurance coverage or a settlement applies, with no direct common-law equivalent). We will analyze the relevant details below.

This is a Supreme Court judgment holding that, under the Medical Service Act, a medical institution to which a hospital director who has received a suspension of license belongs faces difficulty in claiming medical care benefits.

We will analyze a Supreme Court judgment addressing the standards by which a “justifiable ground for dismissal” set out in the Labor Standards Act should be assessed.

We analyzed a Supreme Court judgment addressing the standard by which an ‘improper act’ under the Act on Contracts to Which the State Is a Party should be assessed.

In a lawsuit contesting divorce consolation money, an important judgment was rendered holding that the third party must prove that the marital community had already broken down at the time of the infidelity.(Supreme Court, Decision of June 27, 2024, 2022 Meu 13504 (principal claim), 2022 Meu 13511 (counterclaim), Damages (general/other))

There are cases in which an injured worker who has suffered an industrial accident receives a lump-sum disability compensation benefit and, after the disability grade is later changed, then receives a disability compensation annuity. In such a case, when the Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service, subrogating the injured worker, calculates the indemnity claim it will assert against the perpetrator's insurer, as of what reference date should the average wage applied to that calculation be set? A significant judgment was rendered on the interpretation of the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act (hereinafter the Industrial Accident Insurance Act), and we will review it together.(Supreme Court, Decision of June 13, 2024, 2024 Da 240783)

This is a Supreme Court judgment holding that, under the Labor Standards Act, a dismissal premised on the succession of employment cannot be regarded as an unfair dismissal.

This is a judgment holding that, under the Labor Standards Act, even where separate corporations were operated, if one person oversaw the operations as a whole as the manager, they must be treated as a single workplace.