A court on Tuesday recognized the state s liability to compensate humidifier disinfectant victims or their bereaved families for the first time in Korea.
A five-year legal battle between the Korean government and activist fund Elliott Investment Management over a controversial merger of two Samsung Group affiliates has finally reach.
The Supreme Court ruled, Thursday, that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs took appropriate measures by refusing to disclose the minutes of a controversial Korea-Japan deal on former sex slaves signed in 2015, upholding a decision by an appellate court.
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The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) held a plenary meeting on Monday to decide how to sanction SK Chemicals and Aekyung Industrial over three online advertorials claiming that their humidifier sanitizers are harmless. The products, which had been manufactured by SK Chemicals and sold by Aekyung Industrial, are among the various humidifier disinfectants to have been sold in Korea until the early 2010s that killed at least 1,784 people.