Maritime law in practice - perspectives on shipping, offshore wind projects, international trade and marine insurance
This blog post reproduces an article the author contributed in 2025 to The Legal 500 Country Comparative Guides, Hot Topic | Shipping. I. Recent developments in offshore wind farms in Korea In 2017, the Korean government announced the “Renewable Energy 3020 Action Plan” (the “Plan”). Under this plan, a wind farm of 17.7GW must be installed […]
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This blog post reproduces an article the author contributed in 2026 to The Legal 500 Country Comparative Guides, Hot Topic | Shipping. I. Submarine cables: critical infrastructure of the digital age In modern society, submarine cables have established themselves as core national infrastructure beyond mere communication connection means. Since the first submarine telegraph cable was experimentally […]
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A refrigerated container set to minus 18°C instead of plus 18°C turned a shipment of robotic arms into a dispute over the reach of a sea carrier’s package limitation: roughly KRW 11 million on one side of the line, KRW 700 million on the other. For Korea’s Supreme Court, the difference between providing a container […]
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When a ship’s engine fails, the shipyard is not necessarily the only party to consider. Korean law allows claims under the Product Liability Act or in tort, even without a direct contract. A tanker engine dispute illustrates how liability can turn on who held information about a defect, who controlled it, and who failed to […]
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A wind turbine blade nearly 100 metres long leaves port lying along the deck. Where it sits is not a stowage decision but a legal one: it moves the carrier’s liability, the cargo owner’s consent, the wording of the bill of lading and the reach of the insurance. The real risk of blade carriage may […]
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A foreign ship arrived at Okgye Port with 1.7 tonnes of cocaine on board, taken on in the Pacific off Peru; a Korean court sentenced the principal offender to 25 years. Yet in an earlier collision in Korea’s exclusive economic zone that killed Korean fishermen, the Korean courts held that they had no criminal jurisdiction […]
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Where a vessel collides with another vessel or strikes a quay, the repair account is seldom the principal dispute. The argument is about the period during which the vessel, the quay or the crane stood idle — how long that period may reasonably be, what was not earned during it, and which costs went on […]
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