Where’s ‘Goo Hara law’? S. Korea mum who dumped son returns to claim insurance money after his death

South Korea’s inheritance law makes it possible for absentee parents to claim their children’s money, based solely on the fact that they are related by blood. - The Straits Times/ANN

SEOUL (The Korea Herald/ANN): Last week, the Busan High Court recommended a settlement in a legal dispute over a late sailor’s wealth that broke out between his mother and his older sister.

The mother, however, refused to obey the court and hand over 42 per cent of her son’s insurance money to the sister, despite leaving her children when they were young and being out of touch for 54 years.