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The legal system of South Korea is a civil law system that has its basis in the Constitution of the Republic of Korea. The Court Organization Act, which was passed into law on 26 September 1949, officially created a three-tiered, independent judicial system.
South Koreans have been familiar with offline real-name systems since the mid-1990s, when legislation was introduced that required a real name to be used for property and financial transactions. In August 2011 hackers accessed the databases for the real-name system, obtaining the registration numbers of 35 million people.
Before South Korea adopted the American law school system (법학전문대학원) in 2007, South Korea trained its legal professionals mainly by the Judicial Research and Training Institute (JRTI, 사법연수원). The trainees at JRTI were selected by a nationwide exam on jurisprudence called the 'Judicial exam' (사법시험). These trainees ...
Originally, there was no legal limitation on the length of names in South Korea. As a result, some people registered extremely long given names, such as the 16-syllable Haneulbyeolnimgureumhaetnimbodasarangseureouri (하늘별님구름햇님보다사랑스러우리; roughly, "more beloved than the sky, stars, clouds, and the sun ...
The Civil Code of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) was passed in 1958 as Law No. 471 and is known in South Korea as one of the three fundamental laws, the other two being Criminal law and constitution. It is made up of five parts, Part I (general provisions), Part II (real rights), Part III (claims), Part IV (relatives), and Part V ...
The current judicial system of South Korea, particularly the Constitutional Court of Korea, was influenced by the Austrian judicial system. [13] While Austria has three apex courts, whose jurisdictions are defined in different chapters of the Austrian constitution, [ 14 ] the South Korean constitution [ 15 ] establishes only two apex courts.
The politics of South Korea take place in the framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the president is the head of state, and of a multi-party system. To ensure a separation of powers, the Republic of Korea Government is made up of three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial.
Separation of powers and election system in South Korea. At the national level, the legislative branch consists of the National Assembly of South Korea. This is a unicameral legislature; it consists of a single large assembly. Most of its 300 members are elected from-member constituencies; however, 56 are elected through proportional ...