The Seoul Administrative Court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Women on Web, the notorious “non-profit” that mails abortion pills worldwide through its website, ruling that the government’s ban was not unlawful, according to Shin Hye-Yeon.
“The court dismissed the Canadian nonprofit’s case because the pills were not manufactured, imported or approved for use in Korea, as well as on procedural grounds,” Hye-Yeon reported for Korea JoongAng Daily.
Background
Women on Web challenged a corrective order issued in October 2024 by the Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCSC) “directing them to block access to the website. In February of the following year, the commission demanded that the domain registrar cancel the site’s domain,” according to Hye-Yeon. “Women on Web filed the administrative lawsuit in May 2025, challenging the KCSC’s measures.”
However, last June, the Seoul Administrative Court wrote that the KCSC’s action is “hard to see as unlawful because Women on Web’s provision of abortion pills that were not manufactured, imported or approved for use in Korea violated the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act.” The Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection states that “no one shall distribute information intended for a crime, or that instigates or aids one.”
Women on Web filed an appeal on June 30.
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