I've begun reading a book titled, The Korean Mind: Understanding Contemporary Korean Culture. Your essay made me look into two sections which I thought might be relevant to what you wrote in order for me to learn a bit more about Korea. One section is, 정의 [justice Korean style], another 체벌 [collective punishment]. Both refer to pre-modern Korea, the Confucian principle of collective guilt versus modern Korean law and the ways that law can be used to help vs. ways that law can be used to harm; it's mostly summary writing. I also happened to be watching 로스쿨 so your topic was sort of relevant to me at the moment. Kelsey's comment made me google "liberal laws in Korea" and I clicked on https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/south-korea/
I think that your statement, "Koreans were so sick of the harsh and inhumane measures from the 1960s to 1980s, that they clamored for civil liberties and protection of personal rights and due process.", says a lot about how modern legal positions got to where they are today. Once again, you've presented a topic that could be a semester's worth of study.
Sometimes I think you do more research than I do when it comes to these topics. I don't know much about the book you're referring to, but there might be some mistranslation as to what 체벌 means. It's "physical punishment," like teacher caning students and such. Boy... do I have stories to tell there. I was thinking of doing a post on the 체벌 I used to get when I was little. Maybe I will, but I fear that people are not going to believe me when I write what really happened 40 years ago.
And yes, I will get to some of those inhumane, downright criminal, practices of those administrations.
Korean legal system is fashioned after the American system, so they're very similar--probably the biggest difference being the slightly different laws and punishments from state to state in US, whereas there is only one national system in Korea. Besides, I don't know enough about it. Law makes my head hurt.
I've begun reading a book titled, The Korean Mind: Understanding Contemporary Korean Culture. Your essay made me look into two sections which I thought might be relevant to what you wrote in order for me to learn a bit more about Korea. One section is, 정의 [justice Korean style], another 체벌 [collective punishment]. Both refer to pre-modern Korea, the Confucian principle of collective guilt versus modern Korean law and the ways that law can be used to help vs. ways that law can be used to harm; it's mostly summary writing. I also happened to be watching 로스쿨 so your topic was sort of relevant to me at the moment. Kelsey's comment made me google "liberal laws in Korea" and I clicked on https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/south-korea/
I think that your statement, "Koreans were so sick of the harsh and inhumane measures from the 1960s to 1980s, that they clamored for civil liberties and protection of personal rights and due process.", says a lot about how modern legal positions got to where they are today. Once again, you've presented a topic that could be a semester's worth of study.
Sometimes I think you do more research than I do when it comes to these topics. I don't know much about the book you're referring to, but there might be some mistranslation as to what 체벌 means. It's "physical punishment," like teacher caning students and such. Boy... do I have stories to tell there. I was thinking of doing a post on the 체벌 I used to get when I was little. Maybe I will, but I fear that people are not going to believe me when I write what really happened 40 years ago.
And yes, I will get to some of those inhumane, downright criminal, practices of those administrations.
Oh wow. I’d be super interested in a deeper dive of just the Korean legal system in general. Maybe you have but I just haven’t gotten that far yet! 😅
Korean legal system is fashioned after the American system, so they're very similar--probably the biggest difference being the slightly different laws and punishments from state to state in US, whereas there is only one national system in Korea. Besides, I don't know enough about it. Law makes my head hurt.