Weekly Korean Legal News From International Law Firm – IPG Legal for the week of May 25, 2014

Korean Legal News Reported by the Media on the Week of May 25, 2014

• Apple Inc. (AAPL) Seeks $203 Million Enhanced Damages From Samsung
• South Korea Offers Little In Way of Legal Recourse For Sunken Ferry Crew
• Vietnam, South Korea Cooperate In Copyright Protection
• South Korea Officials Enact De facto SOPA Law to Block Foreign Website
• New Mobile Handset Law to Go into Effect in October

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Sean Hayes may be contacted at: SeanHayes@ipglegal.com. Sean Hayes is co-chair of the Korea Practice Team at IPG Legal. He is the first non-Korean attorney to have worked for the Korean court system (Constitutional Court of Korea) and one of the first non-Koreans to be a regular member of a Korean law faculty. He is ranked, for Korea, as one of only two non-Korean attorneys as a Top Attorney by AsiaLaw.