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 by 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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