South Korean Court Legalises Adultery, Condom Stock Surges
South Korea’s highest court struck down a decade old law banning adultery, a statute that critics said is anachronistic and infringes on personal freedom, sending shares in the country’s biggest condom maker surging.
The law had been enacted in 1953 to protect women in a male-dominated society where divorce was rare and had made marital infidelity punishable by jail.
“The law is unconstitutional as it infringes people’s right to make their own decisions on sex and secrecy and freedom of their private life, violating the principle banning excessive enforcement under the constitution,” said Seo Ki-seok, a constitutional court justice, reading an opinion representing five justices.
Seven members of the nine-judge panel deemed the law to be unconstitutional.
Shares in Unidus Corp, which makes latex products including condoms, soared to the 15 per cent daily limit gain after the ruling.
Critics have said the law against adultery is outdated in a society where rapid modernisation has frequently clashed with traditionally conservative values.
In 2008, the court had upheld the law, citing the society’s legal perception that adultery is damaging to social order.
Several thousand spouses file criminal adultery complaints each year in South Korea, although it is rare for someone to be jailed. According to prosecutors, no one was put behind bars last year although 892 were indicted on adultery charges.
Source: Telegraph
D law is gud.Judgement based on dat is left for God alone
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
OkNa dem sabi.
Hahaha, they didn’t even waste any time
Na wa o
Na dem sabi.
They should get ready for free distribution of STIs
Humm nawa ooo
I fear ooooooooooo.
hmmmmmmmm
Mmmm..well let God be the judge
Hnmmmm
It dosnt matter in Nigeria you are legally entitled to jail your husband if he cheats but no one has been jailed as far as am concerned such laws don’t count joo
Hmmmmm,ooh concern dem
Hmmmmmmm wonders of this world
Na dem sabi oo
Na waooo!This one na carry go
Na them sabi
Lol..well..its their decision
Huh! Nawa ooooo
i wish i dey that country na condom bizness i for just start mehn i for realy sell o
Very soon, the rate of deadly disease will rise in such a place. I keep saying that for adultery, to for God to judge so no need being adulterous for example because your spouse is cuz at the end of the day, u will be judged as its a sin aganist God
They don’t have better bills to sign, mtsheewww…they should get ready for STD with full force like an insurgence.