Bringing the Courts to the Constitution - The Extension of Constitutional Complaint to Court Judgments in South Korea

Bringing the Courts to the Constitution - The Extension of Constitutional Complaint to Court Judgments in South Korea Yun, Jeong-In Author aut (orcid)0009-0001-5034-9812 Text xx# 2026 Verfassungsblog 2026-03-16 eng 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 Yun, Jeong-In Constitutional Complaint Constitutional Court 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-extension-of-constitutional-complaint-to-court-judgments-in-south-korea/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/cfee9091b85b32e3 260316 10.59704/cfee9091b85b32e3 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)