Since the present civil law in Korea has adopted the registered marriage system for the legality of marriage, no couple in cohabitation after a public wedding ceremeony has heen considered under the protection of the law, if not registered.
The unre...
Since the present civil law in Korea has adopted the registered marriage system for the legality of marriage, no couple in cohabitation after a public wedding ceremeony has heen considered under the protection of the law, if not registered.
The unregistered marriage approved in social customs, however, must be protected by legal approbatoin. For this, it is necessary to consider the legal marriage systems from the time of the Lee Dynasty down to the present, deductively. Then a revision of the present marital law can be suggested for a reasonable and ideal law.