nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/cfee9091b85b32e3 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260316s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/cfee9091b85b32e3 doi eng 342 23 Yun, Jeong-In Author aut (orcid)0009-0001-5034-9812 Bringing the Courts to the Constitution - The Extension of Constitutional Complaint to Court Judgments in South Korea Yun, Jeong-In Verfassungsblog 2026-03-16 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 27 February 2026, the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea passed an amendment bill to the Constitutional Court Act introducing constitutional complaints against court judgments, 38 years after the Constitutional Court’s establishment. This amendment marks a watershed moment for constitutional justice in Korea. By bringing judicial decisions within the scope of constitutional complaint, the amendment closes a long-standing gap in the protection of constitutional rights and resolves an institutional anomaly that had effectively placed the judiciary beyond constitutional review. CC BY-SA 4.0 Constitutional Complaint Constitutional Court Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-extension-of-constitutional-complaint-to-court-judgments-in-south-korea/ raw object