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Law of South Korea
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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. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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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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The Court Organization Act, which was passed into law on 26 September 1949, officially created a three-tiered, independent judicial system.
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