South Korea runs a civil law system grounded in its constitution. The Court Organization Act of 26 September 1949 created a three tiered, independent judiciary, and the revised Constitution of 1987 wrote judicial independence directly into Article 103, stating that judges rule according to their own conscience and the law. That same 1987 revision established South Korea's Constitutional Court, giving the country an active body for constitutional review for the first time.
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Example Jurisdictions Primary Source of LawThe Constitution of the Republic of Korea, supplemented by statutes including the Civil Code and Penal Code, within a civil law framework. 2 Classification
Legal Family Law of South Korea
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In Legal Family
Entity-backed identity for the legal family value this legal-system already carries as an enum fact, resolved to a legal-system entity by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.
In Legal System
Family classification carried over from this entity's own recorded SubLabel (Civil Law Family), assigned under the section-legal-systems structure wave (ruling 761) using the CIA World Factbook / JuriGlobe comparative-law family classification (system.Atlas.DataBrief, law). This edge materializes that existing classification as a connective fact; it is not a new independent research finding.
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Source Civil Code of the Republic of Korea (Wikipedia)
Source Constitutional Court of Korea (Wikipedia)
Source Keebong Paek (Wikipedia)
Source Kim Sanghwan (Wikipedia)
Source Wikidata: Lee Tai-young
Source National Security Act (South Korea), Wikipedia
Source O-Gon Kwon (Wikipedia)
Source Penal Code (South Korea) (Wikipedia)
Source Wikidata: Song Sang-Hyun
Source Wikidata: Song Sang-Hyun
Source Yang Sung-tae (Wikipedia)
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1. Wikipedia: Law of South Korea
2. Law of South Korea (Wikipedia)
WikipediaWikipedia, Law of South Korea, judiciary history section
The Court Organization Act, which was passed into law on 26 September 1949, officially created a three-tiered, independent judicial system.
- In Group: German Civil Law Tradition, modeled after European continental systems such as German and French judicial structure
View the Source Wikidata: Song Sang-Hyun
- Includes: Song Sang-hyun, Song Sang-hyun (Korean: 송상현; born 21 December 1941) is a South Korean lawyer and former President of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
- Includes: Sang-Hyun Song, Song Sang-hyun (Korean: 송상현; born 21 December 1941) is a South Korean lawyer and former President of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
View the SourceCivil Code of the Republic of Korea (Wikipedia)
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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.
Penal Code (South Korea) (Wikipedia)
Includes: Penal Code (South Korea), Lead sectionQuote, Includes: Penal Code (South Korea), Lead section
The Penal Code or Criminal Act (형법) is the criminal code in South Korea.
Kim Sanghwan (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Kim Sanghwan, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Kim Sanghwan, Wikipedia lead sentence
is a South Korean jurist who has served since
Yang Sung-tae (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Yang Sung-tae, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Yang Sung-tae, Wikipedia lead sentence
is a South Korean jurist and the
Keebong Paek (Wikipedia)
Includes: Keebong Paek, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Keebong Paek, Wikipedia lead sentence
is a South Korean jurist who has been serving as a judge
O-Gon Kwon (Wikipedia)
Includes: O-Gon Kwon, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: O-Gon Kwon, Wikipedia lead sentence
is a South Korean jurist
Constitutional Court of Korea (Wikipedia)
Includes: Constitutional Court of Korea, Wikipedia lead paragraphQuote, Includes: Constitutional Court of Korea, Wikipedia lead paragraph
헌법재판소; Hanja: 憲法裁判所) is the constitutional court of South Korea, seated in Jongno, Seoul. Exercising constitution
National Security Act (South Korea), Wikipedia
Includes: National Security Act (South Korea), Wikipedia lead paragraphQuote, Includes: National Security Act (South Korea), Wikipedia lead paragraph
The National Security Act is a South Korean law that entered force on December 1, 1948, under
Wikidata: Lee Tai-young
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