S. Korea is one of the few non-Muslim countries where an extramarital affair makes a criminal offense. Under the adultery law, the convicted can be sent to jail up to two years. For the last two decades, there have been a few challenges to overturn the law, but the country's constitutional judges upheld it every time. This issue became huge again in 2008 when a well-known actress Ok So-ri was indicted on charge of adultery. Short history of Korean Adultery Law There were various kinds of adultery laws throughout many Korean dynasties as in most countries . The first modern-age law was ...