The Supreme Court has recently opened a website to provide legal assistance in more than a dozen languages to foreign residents in Korea.
Aside from the court’s English website, the new website (jifi.scourt.go.kr) provides detailed explanations of the principles and rules of the legal system such as civil and criminal lawsuits, judicial independence, and types of courts in 15 languages. The language services include Vietnamese, Chinese and Thai.
“The Supreme Court set up the website to meet an increasing demand for judicial services for foreigners,” said a Supreme Court official, adding “it will make efforts to make sure that foreigners receive the same level of legal protection as citizens.”
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