SOUTH KOREA LEGALIZES ADULTRY

For the past 62 years, South Korea held firmly on the adultery law that sentences cheating spouse to up to 2 years in jail. Today, the story has changed.

Presiding Judge of a nine member bench, Justice Park Han-Chul said"even if adultery should be condemned as immoral, state power should not intervene in individual's private life".

The nine member bench ruled the by 7 to 2 that the 1953 law was unconstitutional.

On the other hand, Justice Ann Chang-Ho who read the dissenting option at the constitutional court said that the Statute was a ket protector of family morals, and warned that it's abolition would spark a surge in debauchery.

According to the figure from the state prosecuting office, 5,500 has bee arraigned in the past six years on violation of the law.
with nearly 900 in 2014, 216 in 2004, 42 by 2008, they claimed that adultery can be condemned as immoral but not as a criminal act.

Recently, it's very rare for a person to serve a prison term for adultry.the number of indictment has decreased as charges are usually dropped said Lim Ji-Bong, a law professor from Sogang University Seoul.