Korea’s top court ruled for the first time that tailoring services that alter luxury goods at an owner’s request for their personal use do not violate trademark law, but producing and selling those modified goods do.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was seen with a new Mercedes-Benz Maybach GLS 600, a luxury vehicle whose import into North Korea is banned under UN sanctions.
An Instagram influencer is sentenced to 14 months in prison and fined for manufacturing and selling fake luxury goods.
Customers line up outside a Louis Vitton store at a department store in Seoul on Monday. Sales of luxury goods, from bags to watches and jewelry, have surged in the last year.
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