Featured Courts 16 August 2023 Constitutional Court Rejects Interior Minister Impeachment over the Itaewon Disaster The result was expected, as the court previously held that incompetence was not grounds for impeachment.
Featured Courts 29 June 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol’s Unconstitutional Court-Packing The president's threat to withhold Supreme Court justice appointment is a direct challenge to the constitutional separation of powers.
Featured Courts 13 April 2023 Constitutional Court Upholds Prosecution Reform in a Defeat for the Yoon Administration Reckless challenge by Yoon's Justice Ministry made its legal argument even weaker.
Featured Liberals 9 March 2023 Prosecutors' Absurd Charges Against Lee Jae-myung The argument that political gains amount to bribery makes a mockery of representative democracy.
Featured History 6 March 2023 Court Orders Reparations for Vietnamese War Crime Victims The court’s decision is the first ruling by the South Korean judiciary to recognize the country’s responsibility for war crimes committed in the course of the Vietnam War.
Featured Courts 2 March 2023 Judicial Farce that is Gwak Sang-do's Daejang-dong Trial Even the conservatives are hard-pressed to defend the court's mental gymnastics.
Featured Conservatives 27 February 2023 Court Establishes First Lady's Involvement in a Stock Pump-and-Dump Scheme First Lady Kim Geon-hee still has not faced any investigation in her involvement in the Deutsche Motors scheme while other conspirators were found guilty.
Featured Blue House 2 January 2023 First Lady Clearly Involved Stock Manipulation Scheme, Still Faces No Investigation Deutsche Motors stock manipulation trial continues to produce evidence against Kim Geon-hee.
Featured History 21 October 2022 Supreme Court Orders Reparations for Sex Workers Serving US Military Reminiscent of Imperial Japan's "Comfort Women," the organized sex trade near US bases in Korea involved horrendous human rights violations.
Featured Courts 1 August 2022 Constitutional Court Clashes with Supreme Court In only the second time in South Korean history, the Constitutional Court overturned a Supreme Court decision.
Featured Courts 8 July 2022 Jury Trial Becoming a Haven for Sex Offenders: Data Jury trial's acquittal rate for alleged sex crimes is significantly higher than bench trial's.
Featured Courts 20 June 2022 Liberal Politician Convicted for Criminal Defamation of Justice Minister Yu Si-min was sentenced to KRW 5m in fines for claiming Han Dong-hun surveilled his bank account.
Featured Conservatives 2 March 2022 Former Conservative Lawmaker's Prison Sentence Confirmed for Influence Peddling The Supreme Court confirmed Kim Seong-tae's sentence. Kwon Seong-dong was found not guilty for taking bribes, but his bribes-giver was found guilty.
Featured Conservatives 1 November 2021 Court Upholds Yun Seok-yeol's Suspension The ruling undermines the conservative presidential runner's claim that the Moon administration unfairly targeted him.
Featured Courts 16 July 2021 Supreme Court: Non-Religious Pacifists Also Entitled to Alternate Military Service Previously, the Constitutional Court provided for alternative service for religious pacifists.
Featured Starter Kit 6 May 2021 Introduction to South Korea's Judicial System South Korea has a legal system that is largely based on Civil Law with some US law characteristics.
Courts 20 March 2021 Criminal "Defamation-by-Facts" Law Held Constitutional The crime of defamation-by-facts has been criticized for potentially infringing upon freedom of speech, and for being used as a tool to silence whistleblowers.
Featured Conservatives 5 February 2021 Supreme Court Finalizes 22 Years in Prison for Park Geun-hye President Moon Jae-in rejected the call for pardoning Park.
Featured North Korea 1 February 2021 False Charge of Espionage Against a North Korean Defector Disproven The conservative Park Geun-hye administration ran campaign of fabricated charges against North Korean defectors.
Featured Blue House 4 December 2020 The Corruption Investigation Office: Ready to Launch The fight to establish has been fierce, with 29 lawmakers indicted for interfering with the legislative process.
