Six high courts take appeals from the district courts. Korean procedure allows a full appeal on fact as well as law at this tier, so the high court rather than the Supreme Court is where most factual disputes are finally settled. A separate Patent Court sits at the same level for intellectual-property appeals.
How the court is constituted
- Tier
- appellate
- Court type
- Intermediate appellate court
- Jurisdiction
- Appeals from district courts and family courts, and first-instance jurisdiction over certain administrative cases.
- Seat
- Seoul, Busan, Daegu, Daejeon, Gwangju, Suwon
- Established
- 1948
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