The Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that the current law requiring large grocery stores to close at least two days a month is not against the nation's highest law.
The Distribution Industry Development Act allows mayors and other local government heads to restrict business hours of superstores in order to prevent such big businesses from dominating the market and to guarantee rest for store workers.
Under the law, superstores in Seoul have to close on the second and fourth Sundays of every month.
(Yonhap)
E-Mart and six other large stores filed a suit claiming the law is against the Constitution, but the Constitutional Court rejected their claim.MOST POPULAR