The Constitutional Court of South Korea has scrapped a controversial adultery law which criminalized extra-marital sex and mandated that offenders be jailed for up to two years, sources said.
The court ruled that the 1953 law, which was aimed at protecting traditional family values, was unconstitutional.
According to presiding justice Park Han-Chul, "even if adultery should be condemned as immoral, state power should not intervene in individuals' private lives."
More than 35,000 South Koreans have reportedly been jailed for marital infidelity since 1985.
