SEOUL, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is set to introduce swifter penalties for non-custodial parents who defy court orders to pay child support, including travel bans and driver’s license suspensions if the amount in arrears is over 30 million won or they are delinquent on more than three payments. The Ministry of Gender Equality [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean watchdog on personal information protection on Wednesday fined major foreign platform service providers nearly 6.7 billion won (US$5.7 million) over privacy violations. The Personal Information Protection Commission meted out the penalty against Facebook, Netflix and Google and ordered them to fix the problems following its probe. [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s data protection watchdog on Wednesday imposed a hefty monetary penalty on a startup for leaking a massive amount of personal information in the process of developing and commercializing a controversial female chatbot. The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) said Scatter Lab, a Seoul-based startup, was ordered to [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Display Co., a major display panel maker in South Korea, is likely to receive compensation from Apple Inc. over a shortfall in OLED panel orders, industry insiders said Tuesday. Samsung Display’s worldwide small OLED shipments in January dropped 9 percent month-to-month to 45 million units, according to market [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Earlier this week, the prosecution demanded life imprisonment for an alleged online predator, a penalty that came as such a surprise that local news outlets sent urgent breaking news alerts. The request for the suspect to spend the rest of his life behind bars — the first of its [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Train passengers failing to wear masks and comply with quarantine rules against infectious diseases will face monetary penalties under a soon-to-be revised law, the government said Monday. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport made a pre-announcement of the revision of the Railroad Safety Act scheduled to take effect [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — About 8 out of every 10 South Koreans support the idea of stronger punishment for passengers who overlook and abet those driving under the influence, a poll showed Thursday. A total of 83.4 percent of 500 people aged 18 or above, surveyed by polling company Realmeter, expressed support for [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s telecommunications regulator said Wednesday it fined video sharing platform TikTok Pte Ltd. 186 million won (US$155,000) for mishandling user data amid growing global privacy concerns of the social media service. The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) said the social media app popular among teenagers violated local telecommunication laws [...]
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s three major telecom operators are expected to be slapped with a record fine over illegal subsidies for customers, industry sources said Friday. The three companies — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp., and LG Uplus Corp — have been suspected of providing massive amounts of illegal phone subsidies [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s three major telecom companies are expected to face a record fine over their illegal subsidies for 5G customers, industry insiders said Monday, as they fear such a penalty could dampen their efforts to overcome the novel coronavirus pandemic. According to industry sources, the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) [...]