South Korea’s Constitutional
Court on Thursday struck down
a 60-year-old statute outlawing
adultery under which violators
faced up to two years in prison.
The nine-member bench ruled
b
y seven to two that the 1953
law was unconstitutional.
“Even if adultery should be
condemned as immoral, state
power should not intervene in
individuals’ private lives,” said
presiding justice Park Han-
Chul.
It was the fifth time the apex
court had considered the
constitutional legality of the
legislation which had made
South Korea one of the few non-
Muslim countries to regard
marital infidelity as a criminal
act.
Court on Thursday struck down
a 60-year-old statute outlawing
adultery under which violators
faced up to two years in prison.
The nine-member bench ruled
b
y seven to two that the 1953
law was unconstitutional.
“Even if adultery should be
condemned as immoral, state
power should not intervene in
individuals’ private lives,” said
presiding justice Park Han-
Chul.
It was the fifth time the apex
court had considered the
constitutional legality of the
legislation which had made
South Korea one of the few non-
Muslim countries to regard
marital infidelity as a criminal
act.
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