The U.A.E and Republic of South Korea have not entered into a bi-lateral treaty under which they are obliged to recognise each other's court orders or judgments. The U.A.E rarely recognises/enforces the judgment of foreign courts where there is no such treaty in place

The collapse of Hanjin, the world's seventh largest shipping container carrier, and its immediate impact in South Africa and its shipping industry, remains to be seen. As far as we can ascertain, there has been no attempt to date to apply to a South African Court for the recognition of the Korean rehabilitation proceedings.