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A social norm is a shared standard of acceptable behavior by a group. [1] Social norms can both be informal understandings that govern the behavior of members of a society, as well as be codified into rules and laws. [2]
Orders and permissions express norms. Such norm sentences do not describe how the world is, they rather prescribe how the world should be. Imperative sentences are the most obvious way to express norms, but declarative sentences also may be norms, as is the case with laws or 'principles'.
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.