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Here are the abstracts of a selected number of major cases translated into English. New abstracts will be added regularly.
ABBREVIATION & CODES

KCCR : Korean Constitutional Court Report
KCCG : Korean Constitutional Court Gazette
Case Codes HunKa£º constitutionality case referred by ordinary courts according to Article 41 of the Constitutional Court Act
HunBa£º constitutionality case filed by individual petitioner(s) in the form of constitutional complaint according to Article 68 (2) of the Constitutional Court Act
HunMa£º constitutional complaint case filed by individual petitioner(s) according to Article 68 (1) of the Constitutional Court Act
HunRa£º case involving dispute regarding the competence of governmental agencies filed according to Article 61 of the Constitutional Court Act

£ª For example, "96 HunKa 2" means the constitutionality case referred by an ordinary court, the docket number of which is No. 2 in the year 1996.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Case 1. Special Act on Expedited Litigation
Case 2. Prosecutor's Decision Not to Indict
Case 3. Preventive Confinement
Case 4. Right to Information
Case 5. National Assembly Candidacy Deposit
Case 6. Military Discipline
Case 7. Lawyers Act(Office Location Restriction)
Case 8. Legislative Conference for National Security CaseAct
Case 9. Land Transaction Regulation
Case 10. Article 13-2 of the Labor Dispute Mediation Act
Case 11. National Security Act
Case 12. Corporate Reorganization
Case 13. Driver's Duty to Report Car Accident to Police
Case 14. Adultery
Case 15. Preferential Employment of Teachers
Case 16. Judicial Scriveners Act Enforcement Regulation
Case 17. Lawyers Act(Practice Suspension)
Case 18. Coerced Public Apology
Case 19. Prescriptive Acquisition of National Property
Case 20. Mandatory Insurance for Buildings with Four or More Stories
Case 21. Private School Teachers' Three Fundamental Labor Rights
Case 22. Right to Have a Counterargument Published
Case 23. Right to Free and Confidential Communication with Attorney
Case 24. Extension of Detention Period Prescribed by National Security Act
Case 25. Mandatory Registration for Periodical Publishers
Case 26. Compulsory Delivery of Copies of Periodicals
Case 27. Presiding Judge's Right to Direct Pleading
Case 28. Seoul National University's Entrance Examination Plan
Case 29. Prohibition of Intervention by Third Party
Case 30. Retroactive Effect of the Constitutional Court's Decision Declaring a Law Unconstitutional
Case 31. Restriction on Billiard Hall Businesses
Case 32. Foreclosure and Dissolution of Kukje Chaebol
Case 33. Immediate Appeal against Release on Bail
Case 34. School Age
Case 35. Release from Position
Case 36. Land Excess-Profits Tax Act
Case 37. Labor Union Act
Case 38. Censorship of Letters of Prisoners Whose Convictions Have Not Been Finalized
Case 39. Obligatory Domestic Motion Picture Showing
Case 40. Special Litigation on Patent
Case 41. Mandatory Confiscation
Case 42. Apportionment and Gerrymandering
Case 43. Special Law for the Punishment of Antinational Activists
Case 44. Special Law for the 5.18 Democratization Movement
Case 45. Presidential Financial and Economic Emergency Order
Case 46. Review of Article 29 (2) of the Constitution
Case 47. Pre-Inspection of Movies
Case 48. Capital Punishment
Case 49. Liquor Tax Act
Case 50. Standards for Protection of Livelihood
Case 51. Prohibition of Marriage between Persons with Same Surname with Same Ancestral Line
Case 52. Competence Dispute beween the Speaker and Members of the National Assembly
Case 53. Preferential Payment of Employees' Retirement Allowances
Case 54. Article 79 (¥¤) of the Building Act
Case 55. Gift Tax on Matrimonial Property Distribution under a Divorce
Case 56. Exceptional Constitutional Review of Court Decisions
Case 57. Article 46-3 of the Labor Union Act
Case 58. Revocation of Publishing Company's Registration for Publishing Obscene or Indecent Materials
Case 59. Prohibition of Solicitation of Donations
Case 60. Competence Dispute between the President of the Republic and Members of the National Assembly
Case 61. Inheritance of Debt by Default

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