Court rules: Adultery no longer a crime in South Korea by Jessica Sheinfeld

Court rules: Adultery no longer a crime in South Korea

By Jessica Sheinfeld

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/26/asia/south-korea-adultery/?iid=ob_article_organicsidebar_expansion&iref=obnetwork

South Korea's highest court struck down a decade-old law banning adultery, a statute that critics 

said is anachronistic and infringes on personal freedom, sending shares in the country's biggest 

condom maker surging.  The law had been enacted in 1953 to protect women in a male-dominated 

society where divorce was rare and had made marital infidelity punishable by jail.

I don't understand their full reasoning for this and I wasn't sure fully what the law entailed in the 

first place, but good for South Korea.