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KOREAN_MAN
Joined: 01 Oct 2006
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 Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 10:40 am Post subject: Should Adultery Be Illegal? |
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Adultery is a crime in Korea which you can be imprisoned for up to 2 years. A while ago, a Korean singer was scolded by many Koreans for saying adultery shouldn't be illegal. Do you think it should be illegal? I know marriage is a contract, but wow...  |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't think it should be illegal; however, I do think it should be recognized as grounds for a divorce. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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| CentralCali wrote: |
| I don't think it should be illegal; however, I do think it should be recognized as grounds for a divorce. |
Yup. Divorce, yes. Jail, no.
And not just adultery, but ANY law outlawing what 2 consenting adults do in their bedroom should be taken off the books. That goes for all the archaeic sodomy laws in the US, among other examples. |
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cdninkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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| I've always wondered, and never heard the same answer twice, what constitutes sufficient evidence to prove adultery in a Korean court of law? A jail sentence is pretty serious so I'm hoping a lot of evidence is required. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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| cdninkorea wrote: |
| I've always wondered, and never heard the same answer twice, what constitutes sufficient evidence to prove adultery in a Korean court of law? A jail sentence is pretty serious so I'm hoping a lot of evidence is required. |
I was under the impression you have to catch them in the act ot have a lot of video/photo evidence.. ie. follow them around and catch them with witnesses. I hope that's not the only way to do it, but that's the way I've heard it going down. |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Young FRANKenstein wrote: |
| CentralCali wrote: |
| I don't think it should be illegal; however, I do think it should be recognized as grounds for a divorce. |
Yup. Divorce, yes. Jail, no.
And not just adultery, but ANY law outlawing what 2 consenting adults do in their bedroom should be taken off the books. That goes for all the archaeic sodomy laws in the US, among other examples. |
I agree! As long as they don't tell anyone when they join the military and stop holding parades to honor their preference! |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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I don't know about putting someone who commits adultery in jail, but if polygamy is illegal, what makes a married person engaging in sex with a person other than his/her spouse right, just because they aren't going to get *married*?
Or am I missing something here?  |
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Xerxes
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Location: Down a certain (rabbit) hole, apparently
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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Illegal in Korea is great!
I will bake cookies and cakes and make homemade goodies for her everyday as I go to visit her in jail and gloat when she's eating. |
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arjuna
Joined: 31 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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The institution of marriage is an incorrectly formulated theorem regarding human relations. Adultery is a logical corollary of marriage. One is accepted as moral; the other rejected as immoral. Neither has any necessary or logical relationship to love. Love requires no ceremony and can happen in any context. Legality is too messed up to even bother about.
But never mind. |
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Otherside
Joined: 06 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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I think it should be illegal. I don't know what an appropriate punishment should be, perhaps 2 years jail time is a bit stiff.
In this day and age a divorce is pretty easy to come by, If you want to cheat on your spouse, have the decency to get divorced. |
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jay-shi
Joined: 09 May 2004
Location: On tour
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| Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 12:27 am Post subject: |
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| tzechuk wrote: |
I don't know about putting someone who commits adultery in jail, but if polygamy is illegal, what makes a married person engaging in sex with a person other than his/her spouse right, just because they aren't going to get *married*?
Or am I missing something here? |
tzechuk,
You bring up a valid argument and train of thought.
However, it's not about right and wrong in the legal context. That is an ethical argument that has nothing to do with law. Marriage, adultery and polygamy are all legal constructs.
Law and ethics, though often associated and intertwined, are very different entities. For most of human history slavery was regulated and protected under law, does/did it make it ethically right? |
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tigerbluekitty
Joined: 19 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 12:59 am Post subject: |
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| If adultery is illegal in Korea, then how come I keep hearing that many Korean men are unfaithful to their wives and even being encouraged to be playboys. Are the laws not enforced? |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 1:35 am Post subject: |
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| Otherside wrote: |
| In this day and age a divorce is pretty easy to come by. |
It wasn't more than decade ago where getting a divorce in Korea was near-impossible for a woman.
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| Are the laws not enforced? |
Police will not charge an adulterer unless the cuckolded spouse files for divorce first. No divorce, no crime. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 3:21 am Post subject: |
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| I dislike adulterers and adultery, but it shouldn't be illegal because it's not prosecuted fairly. The charges are almost all brought up against women. Men are safe because if their wives turn them in, they cut them off. |
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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: The deep south...
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| Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Young FRANKenstein wrote: |
| Otherside wrote: |
| In this day and age a divorce is pretty easy to come by. |
It wasn't more than decade ago where getting a divorce in Korea was near-impossible for a woman.
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| Are the laws not enforced? |
Police will not charge an adulterer unless the cuckolded spouse files for divorce first. No divorce, no crime. |
Exactly. The laws are set up so a man can punish his wife for cheating, but the woman can't punish the man unless she wants to be out on the street with the kids, no money, and no source of income. |
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