South Korea
According to the Section 305 of the Criminal Law of the Republic of Korea, a person who engages in a sexual intercourse with a female minor, but not a male minor, who is under 16 years of age, regardless of Korean age reckoning, is guilty of rape and shall be fined and punished by penal labor for the duration that exceeds 3 years (the Criminal Law specifically states to punish a person who raped a female minor or adult, which means engaging in a voluntary or involuntary sexual intercourse with a male minor or adult is a Criminal Law definition of rape in either case.) If a person sexually harassed a female or male minor without engaging in a sexual intercourse, the person shall be punished by penal labor for the duration up to 10 years or fined up to 15 million won.
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Famous quotes containing the word south:
“We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out and make a living again. It was for many years a voiceless part of the government. The balance of power moved away from it—to the north and the east. The problems of the north and the east became the big problem of the country and nobody paid much attention to the economic unbalance the South had left as its only choice.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)