Supreme Court reverses lower court for misapplying Article 25-1 of Labor Code regarding contract extension.

The Supreme Court dismissed the employer's cassation appeal and remanded the case for retrial. The lower court incorrectly applied Article 25-1 of the Labor Code by assuming any mutual extension of fixed-term contracts constitutes an evasion of the indefinite term rule. The court clarified that the statute specifically governs the legal effect of concluding new fixed-term contracts, not the simple extension of an existing agreement by mutual consent. Consequently, the second-instance court erred in law by failing to distinguish between these two scenarios and by not making necessary factual findings regarding the employer's motives.