Korea Law Blog
Brendon Carr’s Korea Law Blog focuses on providing insights into Korean law from an American perspective. The author, who has spent more than a decade as a foreign legal consultant in Seoul, has uniquely positioned himself as an outsider with a working understanding of the legal system in a small Asian country.
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Featured Articles
Understanding Agency, Distribution and Franchise Regulation in Korea
This weekend my associate Sun-Hee Kim and I polished off the sort of stock memorandum that most law firms should have ready to hand on standard topics, but few Korean firms do. Anyone who is interested may download our paper.
Recent Articles
SsangYong Motor Situation Getting Tricky
SsangYong Motor Company (SYMC), Korea’s fifth carmaker and a holdover “zombie” company from the 1998 financial crisis, appears to be on the brink of bankruptcy, with its major shareholder Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation, apparently having had enough of the company and its...
A Sad Story of Internet Fraud: Beware Steve Kim of Daekwang Corp.
A couple of days ago some Korea Law Blog reader found me with this common tale of woe: This is a long shot but I found you through Google (korealawblog.com) and thought I’d take a shot. To make a very long story short, I wired $3800usd to an individual who goes by the name Steve Kim. He...
Seoul High Court: HIV Not Justifiable Reason for Deportation
Some good news for a change: The Seoul High Court has ruled that foreign residents of Korea cannot be deported simply because of testing HIV positive, according to a report in the Law Times I noticed today. The High Court, an intermediate appellate court, affirmed a district court ruling in favor...
Temporary Employees, Contract Employees: Two Years Only
Anyone doing business in Korea quickly becomes familiar—sometimes through painful experience—with the extreme legal protection of employees’ “right” to continued employment. Requiring “just cause” to terminate an employee under the Labor Standards Act...
Samsung No. 1 in US Mobile Phone Market; Korean Market Remains Basically Closed
And I think this could quite quickly become a trade irritant if anybody in Washington notices. The local papers are crowing that in the third quarter tally, Samsung Electronics achieved for the first time the number one sales position in the United States, bumping American phone maker Motorola to...
Korean Bankruptcy Wave Starts to Mount Again
(But for reasons peculiar to this country’s legal system, fewer bankruptcies than you might think…) As the credit crunch starts to bite in the real economy, and Korea’s position becomes more precarious, corporate bankruptcies start to mount. Today I saw the following short report...
Americans Overseas: Register and Vote
[This entry will stay top of the page through Nov. 4.] We all know this election is important. Every election for the Presidency is an important one, but perhaps this November is especially crucial. As an American citizen overseas, you still have the right—and moral obligation—to vote...
Korean Prosecution Studying Introduction of Plea-Bargaining System
Because criminal law has so much greater reach in Korea, touching on a wide variety of business conduct (such as wrongful termination, non-payment of wages, default on payment obligations, or not having the proper markings on your website, or using improperly-sized tires on the car) which might...
Blind Candidate Passes Bar Exam for First Time
The Korea Times, taking a break from its riveting 467-part series on “national branding”, caught up to other media outlets including the Law Times and the Chosun Ilbo in reporting the achievement of 27 year-old Choi Young in passing the bar examination’s two-stage written portion....
