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Posted : 2021-04-01 15:06
Updated : 2021-04-01 15:17
Foreign residents participate in a mock poll at Seoul Station organized by an election office in Seoul in this May 31, 2018 photo, ahead of the nationwide local elections which were held three days later. Korea Times file
By Lee Hyo-jin
Eligible immigrant voters in the upcoming Seoul and Busan mayoral by-elections who are not fluent in Korean are being sidelined due to the absence of translated information on the candidates and voting procedures.
Following the revision to the Public Official Election Act in August 2005, foreign nationals who had stayed in the country for over three years after obtaining permanent residency were given the right to vote in local elections. The upcoming Seoul and Busan mayoral by-elections set for April 7 will be the fifth time they will be able to exercise their voting rights.
The Growth of Systemic Pro Bono in South Korea by Takgon Lee – Attorney at Law – Dongcheon Foundation
Thursday, 4 February 2021 07:27 GMT
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In the Republic of Korea, there has been a strong tradition of human rights advocacy with lawyers participating in the democracy movement of the 1970s and ’80s. Systematic pro bono work by law firms only emerged in the past decade, but has seen explosive growth in the past few years.
The first effort to institutionalise law firm pro bono started with Bae, Kim & Lee, LLC (BKL), which set up an internal pro bono committee in 2001 and established the Dongcheon Foundation in 2009. Under this distinctive model, the firm established a separate non-profit organisation staffed by full-time public interest lawyers, functioning both as a public interest lawyering entity and a preliminary pro bono coordinating body for the firm. It has proven successful in both the accumulation of expertise and in the efficient coordination of pr