₦airaland Forum

South Korea’s Constitutional Court has thrown out 60-year-old statute
outlawing adultery under which those found guilty face up to two years in
prison.

The nine-member bench ruled by seven to two says the 1953 law was
unconstitutional in a judgement handed down on Thursday.

The court held that adultery was a private matter in which the State
should not intervene.

According to the presiding judge, Park Han-Chul “even if adultery should
be condemned as immoral, state power should not intervene in
individuals’ private lives.”

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.

In the past six years, close to 5,500 people have been formerly arraigned
on adultery charges – including nearly 900 in 2014.

The numbers had been falling, with cases that end in prison terms
increasingly rare.

In 2004, 216 people were jailed under the law in 2004. That figure had
dropped to 42 by 2008, and since then only 22 have found themselves
behind bars, according to figures from the state prosecution office.

ghost1718:
End time tinz

dealslip:
If this law was operating in Nigeria. There would be more Nigerians in jail than outside. The Government will have to focus on building more prisons than roads

1MCN:
Maybe for someone who believes a particular religious or traditional teaching. Not a position every other person would agree with.

1MCN:
Most hillarious. You must be a female, I suppose.

dealslip:
Lol. I am female. Nigerian men have shown us pepper. Unfortunately, the Nigerian women are stepping up in the game.

1MCN:
Let me get you ma'am. Stepping up in the game of promiscuity?!

dealslip:
Sadly yes

1MCN:
Two wrongs (or more) don't make a right!

ejikeme:
a bit of truth there. It should be private matter. but how do they plan on keeping the peace when they revoked something that has been up for years

1MCN:
It's more likely that there culture and traditional practices is more tolerable to polygamy, and by extension adultery. I've noticed this trend among Ijaws and Kalabaris and some other riverine peoples in Nigeria

ejikeme:
you serious? ??