[Breaking] Constitutional Court Cancels Supreme Court Ruling Again... Third Time in History

Seodaemun Constitutional Court Grand Bench, Jaedong, Jongno-gu, Seoul. Photo by Moon Honam munonam@

[Asia Economy Reporter Choi Seok-jin, Legal Affairs Specialist] On the 21st, the Constitutional Court once again annulled a court ruling that denied the binding effect of the Constitutional Court's limited ruling on a law.

On the same day in the afternoon, the Constitutional Court, in a hearing on the constitutional complaint filed by GS Caltex, KSS Shipping, and AK Retail requesting the annulment of the court's dismissal of their retrial petitions, unanimously decided to annul both the court's dismissal of the retrial and the dismissal of the retrial appeal.

However, the Constitutional Court ruled that court decisions finalized before the unconstitutional ruling and the tax assessments finalized through those decisions are not subject to constitutional complaints, and thus dismissed those claims.

The Constitutional Court, which first annulled a court ruling that did not follow its limited unconstitutionality decision in 1997, issued the second-ever annulment of a court ruling last month.

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