Not Illegal, but not either legal”: The Grey Zone of Reproductive Rights in South Korea

In 2019, April 11th, South Korean Constitutional Court ruled that the ban on abortion was unconstitutional and that legislative norms needed to be amended to permit practices connected to the interruption of pregnancy. The decision decriminalized abortion since 2021, January 1st. Nevertheless, no act has been adopted to regulate women’s reproductive rights. The essay proposes to reconstruct women’s positions, and the legislation on reproductive rights during the South Korean authoritarian regime and with the return of democracy, focusing on the impact of actual constitutional justice.