Adultery is no longer illegal in South Korea, after the country's Constitutional Court struck down a more than 60-year-old law.
Violators of the law could previously be imprisoned for up to two years, and its validity had already been unsuccessfully challenged in the court four times.
On this occasion, seven of the nine justices on the bench determined the 1953 statute was unconstitutional.
"Even if adultery should be condemned as immoral, state power should not intervene in individuals' private lives," presiding justice Park Han-Chul said.
"Public conceptions of individuals'
rights in their sexual lives have undergone changes." Full story...
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Violators of the law could previously be imprisoned for up to two years, and its validity had already been unsuccessfully challenged in the court four times.
On this occasion, seven of the nine justices on the bench determined the 1953 statute was unconstitutional.
"Even if adultery should be condemned as immoral, state power should not intervene in individuals' private lives," presiding justice Park Han-Chul said.
"Public conceptions of individuals'
rights in their sexual lives have undergone changes." Full story...
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