Scandal. 22 year old woman from Toronto, Canada, sues Lee Byung Hun for using her for sex and lieing to her about marriage. This is in the Seoul court as a civil case.
http://www.allkpop.com/index.php/full_stor..._girl_into_bed/
Interestingly, the Korean government recently revoked an old obscure criminal law which prohibited men from lieing and promising marriage for sex.
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Seoul, South Korea — Associated Press
Published on Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009 4:55AM EST
South Korea's constitutional court struck down a decades-old law Thursday that had banned men from making false promises of marriage to engage in sexual relations with women.
The nine-member court ruled in a 6-3 verdict that the law infringed upon women's dignity and privacy and didn't reflect the current social trend on sex and individualism.
The ruling said the law treated women like “infants,” and went against the government's “constitutional obligation to aim for the equality of men and women.”
The law had punished South Korean men who deceived their girlfriends into having sex with up to a two-year prison term and a fine of more than $4,000 (U.S.). The criminal law, enacted in 1953, only held men liable for false promises of marriage.
“The government should refrain from interfering in men's sexual activities of tempting women in an unharmful manner,” the verdict said.
The court acted on petitions filed by two South Korean men who were convicted of violating the law in recent years.
Court spokesman Noh Hee-bum said the verdict means that the law was immediately abolished and all South Korean men penalized under the law could be acquitted of earlier convictions and receive state compensation if they file for a retrial.
The number of South Korean men indicted under the law had been gradually decreasing, with 42 indicted in 2006 compared with 269 in 1981, according to a court release.
Published on Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009 4:55AM EST
South Korea's constitutional court struck down a decades-old law Thursday that had banned men from making false promises of marriage to engage in sexual relations with women.
The nine-member court ruled in a 6-3 verdict that the law infringed upon women's dignity and privacy and didn't reflect the current social trend on sex and individualism.
The ruling said the law treated women like “infants,” and went against the government's “constitutional obligation to aim for the equality of men and women.”
The law had punished South Korean men who deceived their girlfriends into having sex with up to a two-year prison term and a fine of more than $4,000 (U.S.). The criminal law, enacted in 1953, only held men liable for false promises of marriage.
“The government should refrain from interfering in men's sexual activities of tempting women in an unharmful manner,” the verdict said.
The court acted on petitions filed by two South Korean men who were convicted of violating the law in recent years.
Court spokesman Noh Hee-bum said the verdict means that the law was immediately abolished and all South Korean men penalized under the law could be acquitted of earlier convictions and receive state compensation if they file for a retrial.
The number of South Korean men indicted under the law had been gradually decreasing, with 42 indicted in 2006 compared with 269 in 1981, according to a court release.
