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Enactment of the Special Act on the Promotion of Dispersed Energy & Amendment to Electric Utility Act

05 July 2023 by Lee & Ko - South Korea

The Special Act on the Promotion of Dispersed Energy (the Dispersed Energy Act) was recently enacted as of June 13, 2023 and, on the same date, the amendment to the Electric Utility Act (also known as the Electricity Business Act) (the Amendment) was also promulgated, both of which will come into force as of June 14, 2024.

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Can Liquidated Damages and Penalty Clauses Survive under Korean Law?

03 July 2023 by Jipyong - South Korea

Foreign contractors and subcontractors doing business with Korean companies are often puzzled by how Korean courts deal with liquidated damages and penalty clauses in contracts.

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DEAL OF THE MONTH - JUNE 2023

23 June 2023 by asialaw

asialaw's Deal of the Month for June 2023 is...

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LAWYER OF THE MONTH - JUNE 2023

23 June 2023 by asialaw

asialaw's Lawyer of the Month for June 2023 is...

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Analysis of the First Applications of the Serious Accidents Punishment Act

21 June 2023 by Jipyong - South Korea

The Serious Accidents Punishment Act (“SAPA”) is a relatively new legislation that came into force on January 27, 2022.

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SEC Adopts the ASEAN Sustainable and Responsible Fund Standards and Establishes Rules on Recognition of Foreign Collective Investment Schemes

20 June 2023 by SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan

On April 13, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") issued Memorandum Circular No. 4, Series of 2023 ("MC 4-23") to adopt the ASEAN Sustainable and Responsible Fund Standards ("ASEAN SRFS") and establish rules on the qualifications of local investment companies

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Latest Update to “Guidelines for Workplace Risk Assessment“ to Impact Businesses in Korea

31 May 2023 by Lee & Ko - South Korea

On 22 May 2023, the Ministry of Employment and Labor (MOEL) announced a significant update to its “Guidelines for Workplace Risk Assessment“ (Guidelines), effective immediately.

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Supreme Court of Korea Affirms Abuse of Dominance for Tying Patent Licenses and Engineering Services in the Shipbuilding Industry

30 May 2023 by Lee & Ko - South Korea

Lee & Ko’s Antitrust & Competition Group successfully represented three major Korean shipbuilding companies in the court action involving Gaztransport & Technigaz SA (GTT), the exclusive holder of key patents in technology for manufacturing/constructing membrane storage tanks used on liquefied natural gas carriers (LNG Carrier).

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Revisiting 101 rule of Transfer Pricing in Indonesia

29 May 2023 by ABNR - Indonesia: Freddy Karyadi, Anastasia Irawati

As one of the designated Key Partners of the OECD, Indonesia has implemented some of the OECD’s Action Plans into its prevailing laws and regulations, including Action 8-10 concerning Transfer Pricing and Action 13 concerning Country-by-country Reporting.

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IP Issues and Implications Relating to ChatGPT

26 May 2023 by Lee & Ko - South Korea

ChatGPT is a conversational artificial intelligence (AI) service based on Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT), a language model grounded in artificial neural networks, developed by OpenAI.