South korea constitution

Last updated in April 2018 Background Constitutional History The Constitution of the Republic of Korea is the supreme law of the Republic of Korea (South Korea). Between 17 July 1948, the date of adoption of the first Constitution, and 1987, the Constitution was amended nine times and six republics were established. South Korea adopted its current democratic constitution on 29 October 1987. The 1948 constitution established a system where the president was elected by the national assembly. The first amendment in 1952 was enacted during Rhee Syngman and introduced a directly elected president and a bicameral parliament, despite initial proposals to establish a parliamentary system. Rhee Syngman was reelected the following year. Syngman subsequently amended the constitution in November 1954 to remove term limits to allow him to run again, following mathematical maneuvers where the 2/3 majority required was approximated to the integer closest to the exact figure. In exact figures, a 2/3 majority meant support from 135.33 members of parliament out of the total 203 members. The amendment only received 135 votes. The government argued that the 2/3 majority was achieved as 135 was the closest integer to 135.33. The unlimited term for the presidency in this controversial amendment was to apply only to the first president of the Republic. Following the popular protests and student revolution in response to rigged elections in 1960, which eventually led to the resignation of Syngman...

In 2017, I participated in discussions about the implications of choosing between major and apparently lesser forms of constitutional change. The occasion was the The Forum yielded a range of fascinating insights. Amongst them was a view on which virtually all participants were united, that almost any constitutional change involves a biggish bang of some kind. Choices of process and substance have consequences nevertheless, however, on which the Forum threw considerable light. The one particularly relevant for present purposes is the choice between making a new Constitution or altering an existing one. Some of the consequences may be identified as follows. A new Constitution is less likely to be affected by legal constraints on the process by which it is made and design choices made; attracts demands for significant public participation at key points in the constitution making process; offers a constitution making moment of high symbolic significance, filled with both opportunities and threats. Amendment of an existing constitution, on the other hand, must comply with the amending processes that the constitution prescribes; will retain at least some features of the current constitution, into which the changes must fit; may attract judicial review of the validity of the amendments, in jurisdictions where the doctrine of unconstitutional constitutional amendments is recognised; is less likely to provide opportunities for public participation; may be a more prosaic event. The...

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ToC We , the people of Korea, proud of a resplendent history and traditions dating from time immemorial, upholding the cause of the Provisional Republic of Korea Government born of the Independence Movement of 1 March 1919 and the democratic ideals of the uprising on 19 April 1960 against injustice, having assumed the mission of democratic reform and peaceful unification of our homeland and having determined to consolidate national unity with Justice, humanitarianism and brotherly love, and to destroy all social vices and injustice, and to afford equal opportunities to every person and provide for the fullest development of individual capabilities in all fields, including political, economic, social and cultural life by further strengthening the basic free and democratic order conducive to private initiative and public harmony, and to help each person discharge those duties and responsibilities concomitant to freedoms and rights, and to elevate the quality of life for all citizens and contribute to lasting world peace and the common prosperity of mankind and thereby to ensure security, liberty and happiness for ourselves and our posterity forever, do hereby amend, through national referendum following a resolution by the National Assembly, the Constitution, ordained and established on 12 July 1948, and amended eight times subsequently. (1) The Republic of Korea is a democratic republic. (2) The sovereignty of the Republic of Korea resides in the people, and all state auth...

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President Yoon Suk-yeol delivers an opening speech for the 2022 Boryeong Mud Festival at Daecheon Beach on South Korea's western coast, Saturday, in this photo provided by his office. Yonhap President Yoon Suk-yeol renewed his commitment to promote the constitutional values of free democracy, human rights and rule of law as South Korea commemorates Constitution Day on Sunday. "The constitutional values of free democracy, human rights and rule of law are the foundation of national unity, and the process of realizing such values leads to the road for prosperity and development," Yoon wrote on his Facebook account. "I will safeguard the spirit of the Constitution together with the great people," he said. Yoon recalled his visit to the southwestern city of Gwangju a year ago to look back on the spirit of the 1980 pro-democracy uprising, in which he said people fought to defend the constitutional values with their blood. In May, Yoon and some 100 lawmakers from the ruling People Power Party traveled to Gwangju to pay their respects to the victims of the democracy movement during a ceremony marking its 42nd anniversary. (Yonhap)