Penal code (South Korea)

Penal code of Korea is composed with two parts, a general regulation and each crime. In general regulations, there are four parts, 1. Application scope of Criminal law, 2. Crime, 3. Punishment, 4. Duration. In the part of each crime, it defines 42 crimes.

Each Crimes in Penal code of Korea

1. conspiracy of a rebellion
2. conspiracy of the foreign troubles
3. crime about the national flag
4. crime about diplomatic relations
5. infringement of public peace
6. crime about explosive materials
7. crime about a duty of Public Officials
8. interference with a government official in the exercise on his duty
9. a fugitive and a concealment of the criminal
10. the perjury and the destruction of evidence
11. the calumny (the false charge)
12. spoil a dead body and a burial ground
13. the incendiarism and an accidental fire
14. crime about irrigation and water control
15. infringement of the traffic
16. crime about drinking water (poisoning into water)
17. crime about illegal drugs
18. crime about currency (a counterfeit)
19. crime about a check, a bond, a stock (forgery)
20. forgery of a document (public and private)
21. the forgery of a seal
22. crime about adultery

Penal code of Korea still have the provisions of adultery.

It is now controversial whether it is not against the constitutional law

1. crime about a lottery ticket
2. murder

Penal code of Korea, There is an increasing punishment of murder of parents.

It may be effected by Confucianism.

1. the injury and the violence
2. an accidental homicide and injury
3. the abortion
4. abandon and maltreatment to person
5. illegal imprisonment and confinement
6. the duress
7. the abduction (kidnapping)
8. the rape and committing obscene acts
9. the defamation of character (slander)
10. the spread of falsehood
11. the leakage of classified information
12. unlawful entry
13. the interruption of other persons' legal rights
14. the theft and the burglary
15. the fraud and the menace
16. the breach of trust and the embezzlement
17. crime of dealing in stolen goods
18. destruction of other's property

External links

• "Criminal Code (wholly amended 1 January 1998) [Republic of Korea], 3 October 1953". UNHCR RefWorld. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Retrieved February 14, 2013.
• "Criminal Act (Act No. 239 of September 18, 1953, as amended up to Act No. 11731 of April 5, 2013)". WIPO Lex. World Intellectual Property Organization. Retrieved May 1, 2015.