Kim Yi-su

Korean spelling
Hangeul	김이수
Hanja	金二洙
Revised Romanization	Gim Isu
McCune- Reischauer	Kim Yisu
See also : Korean name

Kim Yi-su (born March 24, 1953 in Jeongeup , Jeollabuk-do ) is a South Korean judge . Kim has been a judge at the Constitutional Court of South Korea since September 2012 .

Life

Kim Yi-su studied law at Seoul National University , where he obtained his LL.B. After passing the bar exam a year later, he first worked as a military judge from 1979 before moving to the Daejeon District Court in 1982 . In 1987, Kim was appointed to the Suwon District Court and transferred to the Seoul Appeals Court in 1989 . In 1991 he took part in a training program at the University of Texas in the United States . From 1996 to 1999, Kim served as an instructor at the Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court and was appointed Chief Justice of the Patent Court in 2000. After serving several other courts in the Seoul Judicial District, Kim was appointed head of the Judicial Research and Training Institute in 2011.

In 2012, Kim Yi-su was nominated by the Democratic Party as a judge in the Constitutional Court and was appointed judge by President Lee Myung-Bak on September 20, 2012 . When party closure case of the United Progressive Party , which has been accused of supporting the government of North Korea, Kim expressed the only one of nine judges against banning the party. In the party's position of abolishing national security laws, Kim saw no evidence of unconstitutionality. For Kim, the radical changes in the structure of the government aimed at by the party were not a sufficient indication of reunification under communism . In 2015 the Constitutional Court ruled for the fifth time after 1990, 1993, 2001 and 2008 on the constitutionality of Article 241 of the Criminal Code, which provided for the offense of adultery with up to two years imprisonment . On February 26, 2015, the court ruled seven to two votes in favor of abolishing the offense. Kim, who is considered to be more liberal , also voted for the unconstitutionality . Kim's tenure as a judge at the Constitutional Court officially ends on September 19, 2018.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Lee Kyung-min: Justice Kim voices only opposition. In: The Korea Times . December 19, 2014, accessed February 19, 2017 . 
2. ↑ 인물. In: 헌법 재판소 . Retrieved February 19, 2017 (Korean). 
3. ^ Norbert Eschborn, Anne Freiberger: Security laws, party bans - is the rule of law in South Korea under attack? (PDF) In: Country report of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation . February 2016, accessed February 19, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Lee Kyung-mi: Constitutional Court abolishes 'scarlet letter' law banning adultery. Infidelity law deemed unconstitutional; civic groups say more civil measures are therefore needed to protect families from infidelity. In: The Hankyoreh . February 27, 2015, accessed February 19, 2017 . 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kim is the family name here, Yi-su is the first name.