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Suwoner10
Joined: 10 Dec 2007
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 Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 9:23 pm Post subject: Monogamy, a foundation of Korean society |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/19/world/asia/19adultery.html
Courtroom Drama to Test Korean Adultery Law
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Those who support the adultery law see it as the last bulwark against the �free-sex culture of the West,� while opponents call it an anachronism.
�The state meddling in which sex partner we should have � that�s too much,� Lim Sung-bin, Ms. Ok�s lawyer, said this month after a three-hour hearing at the Constitutional Court, where his client did not appear. �Such a time is gone.�
The nine-member court said it would rule on the case soon. It is deliberating Ms. Ok�s suit, along with three other petitions against the adultery law, all filed in the past year.
South Korea is among a dwindling number of non-Muslim countries where an adultery conviction can earn a jail sentence. About 70 percent of South Koreans support the adultery law, according to surveys conducted in recent years by the government and the news media.
Each year, more than 1,200 people are indicted under the law and about half are convicted.
�Some argue that no law should intrude beneath the quilt,� said Han Sang-dae, a Justice Ministry official who defended the law during the Constitutional Court hearing. �But if we allow freedom for extramarital affairs, it will threaten our sexual morality as well as monogamy, a foundation of our society.�
�Korean men, many of them still get away with adultery because women are weak,� Ms. Ha said. �It was as recently as during my grandparents� days that men brought in concubines and kicked out their wives. If this law is abolished, I am sure women will suffer more.�
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Atavistic
Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 9:27 pm Post subject: Re: Monogamy, a foundation of Korean society |
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| Suwoner10 wrote: |
�Some argue that no law should intrude beneath the quilt,� said Han Sang-dae, a Justice Ministry official who defended the law during the Constitutional Court hearing. �But if we allow freedom for extramarital affairs, it will threaten our sexual morality as well as monogamy, a foundation of our society.�
�Korean men, many of them still get away with adultery because women are weak,� Ms. Ha said. �It was as recently as during my grandparents� days that men brought in concubines and kicked out their wives. If this law is abolished, I am sure women will suffer more.�
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So which one of these two doesn't understand Korean history? |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 9:37 pm Post subject: Re: Monogamy, a foundation of Korean society |
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| Atavistic wrote: |
| So which one of these two doesn't understand Korean history? |
My money's on the guy who bought his robes with a cake box. |
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neandergirl
Joined: 23 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Both might be right. Faithful monogamy required of women. Minor wives, concubines etc permitted for men. |
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