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blynch · Joined: 25 Oct 2006 Location: UCLA

We all laugh and cry at the laws of Korea, so let's just see how many of them we can bring out. We know the Korean legislature will not change them because they are too busy giving themselves pay raises or something, but for the sake of a good belly laugh, find articles online or print about silly Korea laws that NEED TO BE CHANGED.

KWellsDear · Joined: 26 Feb 2007

It is illegal to tell a girl you are going to marry her to get her in the sack.

Benicio · Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 4:58 pm Post subject:

Does it make a law "silly" if everyone knows it's illegal, but it is never enforced?

Well, those vegetable trucks that ride around the neighborhoods with loud speakers- that's illegal!
The police and the locals do nothing about it. They say that they feel sorry for the truck guys because they have to "work so hard" to make money.
I would never call riding around in a truck annoying everyone "working hard"!

Benicio · Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 5:02 pm Post subject:

Defending yourself in a fight/assault/attack is illegal.

According to police, you're supposed to either thry to get away from the person or allow the attack to happen and wait for the police to show up and help you.
All this in hopes that:
-The police will actually show up!
-They will believe you and not your attacker!
-Hopefully, you will not be killed before the perpetrator can be stopped!
-You actually get money out of the attacker!
-The police will be helpful and you will be successful in pressing charges against your attacker!

Yeah, right!

mateomiguel · Joined: 16 May 2005

It is illegal to commit adultery. I think its a pretty silly law, because it obviously happens so often in this Republic of Love Hotels.

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

Truth is not a defense agaisnt libel or slander.

Dev · Joined: 18 Apr 2006

Mosaics on porn videos. What's the point when you have worse things going on like prositution in every neigborhood in Seoul and most other cities?

Disposable dish ban for take out restaurants. Delivery drivers have to waste gas returning to your house to pick up plastic dishes. An environmetal tax would have made a lot more sense than banning disposable dishes. Come to think of it, they already have this tax on paper coffee cups at coffee shops. Why not extend this to restaurants too?

Bibbitybop · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Location: Seoul

Illegal to teach privates on an E-2 visa.

Marijuana should be legalized, too. Everywhere.

Kyrei · Joined: 22 Jan 2003

Being held accountable by Korean law for acts committed outside Korea (e.g. smoking hash in Holland) that are not illegal in said country.

Dev · Joined: 18 Apr 2006

They should start some ant-smoking laws. They could at least start with PC rooms where kids spend time.

If I were a Korean parent, I wouldn't allow my kids to sit around and breathe smoke for hours.

cangel · Joined: 19 Jun 2003 Location: Jeonju, S. Korea

I heard, and maybe someone out there can verify, that is you get into a car accident, even if you did nothing wrong, you are still 50% liable... I saw a small flatbed delivery truck merge left and crunch the front-left quatre panel of a taxi. The taxi driver did nothing wrong, so is he still on the hook for 50%?

Hater Depot · Joined: 29 Mar 2005

It's true that there is no such thing as a no-fault accident. I suppose the presumption is that if you had been driving just a little slower or been paying just a little more attention there would have been no accident. Western and Eastern apportionments of blame and responsibility are very different, I think.

poet13 · Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 8:50 pm Post subject:

I've read that if you come to a monetary settlement after an accident, you may not later involve the police even if the damage turns out to be more than you setlled for. I think the exception is drinking and driving.

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

The worst korean laws are those that are used to prosecute people in Korea for what they have done abroad. Because, afterall, Korea is a bastion of family values and morality amid a world of drugs and debauchery.

Foe example, the Korean woman who got arrested for doing porn movies in Canada. What happened to her? Was she actually prosecuted? Anyway, bizzare and unfathomable that she would actually get threatened with legal action in Korea for something she did legally in Canada!! (porn acting is legal in Canada......isn't it?).

Also, I believe you can be prosecuted in Korea if you enter the country with illegal drugs in your system. Is this really true? Smoke a spliff in Thailand and get arrested 12 hours later at Incheon?

Bibbitybop · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Location: Seoul