[사회]Marriage within 8 towns is ‘forbidden love’? … “Invasion of the freedom of marriage” vs “Maintaining community order”



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In Korea, marriage between blood relatives within eight villages is prohibited by current law.

Does it unfairly impede the freedom of marriage or is it inevitable for the order of the community?

According to the provisions of the law, the person who married and annulled his sixth spouse from the village presented a constitutional petition saying it was unconstitutional, and today a public defense was held.

This is reporter Han Dong-oh.

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Mr. A filed a marriage record with his spouse B in May 2016

However, three months later, Mr. B filed a suit for annulment of the marriage because he and Mr. A had six in-laws, and the court also accepted.

The provisions of civil law are based on the prohibition of marriage between blood relatives within eight villages.

Mr. A filed a constitutional complaint saying that the provisions of the law were unconstitutional and the Constitutional Court held a public debate on the prohibition of inbreeding.

The question was whether maintaining the freedom of marriage and the order of the community conformed to constitutional values.

Plaintiff A’s party argued that it violated the constitutional rule prohibiting excessive excess, using foreign cases.

In Germany and Switzerland, marriage is allowed unless immediate family members, such as parents or children, brothers or sisters, are not married, and in the United States, Great Britain, France and Japan, marriage is allowed for guarantees with four or more connections.

Even from a genetic point of view, he emphasized that marriages between sixth or eighth generation blood relatives do not have differences in the probability of developing a genetic disorder in their children due to non-incest.

[장샛별 변호사 / 청구인 A 씨 대리인 : 주요 국가의 입법례를 보면 8촌까지 혼인을 금지하는 나라는 우리나라가 유일합니다. 예컨대 다른 나라의 경우에는 3촌까지의 혼인을 금지하고 4촌 이상의 혼인을 허용하거나….]

On the other hand, the Ministry of Justice, which is a ministry in charge, has promoted a sense of community rooted in our society.

We must prevent genetic diseases and biological vulnerabilities that may appear in inbred children, maintaining the marriage customs, the concept of kinship and the community order of our nation.

He stressed that even in today’s nuclear family, the feeling of blood-centered community is the foundation, and households of two or more generations still occupy the majority.

[류태경 변호사 / 법무부 측 대리인 : (민법이) 이와 같이 규정한 것은 가족 및 친족을 기본단위로 하는 우리나라 사회 구조 및 특성을 반영하고 있습니다.]

It has also been noted that civil law prohibitions on inbreeding stem from our own tradition of prohibiting same-sex marriage.

Therefore, considering ancestor-centered customs of paying prizes or performing ceremonies, the concept that the eighth village is a close relative is valid, but it is possible to argue that weddings are too inclusive as they tend to be self-centered .

[전경수 / 서울대 인류학과 명예교수 : 지금 우리 사회에서 근친이라는 개념을 어느 정도 공유하는, 사회적 규범으로서 공유하는 게 바탕이 흔들리고 있지 않은가.]

The same-sex marriage system was changed to prohibit marriage in eight villages in 2005 alone after the Constitutional Court’s decision to disagree with the constitution in 1997.

It should be noted whether the ban on inbreeding, which has been tried again for unconstitutionality after 23 years, will change once again as times change.

YTN Han Dong-oh[[email protected]]it is.

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