LT I am not watching LAW but as a crime genre guy this Fifth Amendment business in kdramas has always intrigued me. Like in the example above I always wonder if that ‘take the Fifth’ is actually in the script or a choice of the subtitler/translator.
Anyway I googled ‘fifth amendment to the Republic of Korea Constitution” and got this:
Article 5
(1)The Republic of Korea shall endeavor to maintain international peace and shall renounce all aggressive wars.
(2)The Armed Forces shall be charged with the sacred mission of national security and the defense of the land and their political neutrality shall be maintained.
However, in Article 12 there is this:
(2)No citizens shall be tortured or be compelled to testify against himself in criminal cases.
Article 12 appears to be the section concerned with the rights of defendants.
Here is the text of the Constitution of the Republic of Korea: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6b4dd14.h
It’s absolutely the subbers. Like the ones that change Weibo to Twitter.
As you can see, the Korean constitution definitely has something in it about self-incrimination but it isn’t the fifth amendment (as your reference shows). If Wikipedia can be trusted then the fifth amendment was to remove a reference from the constitution to the April Revolution.
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
June 4, 2021 at 9:45 PM
Imagines an entire generation of Koreans trying to draw on the fifth amendment to the Korean constitution in criminal cases…
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bong-soo
June 5, 2021 at 6:51 PM
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bong-soo
June 5, 2021 at 7:02 PM
LT I am not watching LAW but as a crime genre guy this Fifth Amendment business in kdramas has always intrigued me. Like in the example above I always wonder if that ‘take the Fifth’ is actually in the script or a choice of the subtitler/translator.
Anyway I googled ‘fifth amendment to the Republic of Korea Constitution” and got this:
However, in Article 12 there is this:
Article 12 appears to be the section concerned with the rights of defendants.
Here is the text of the Constitution of the Republic of Korea:
https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6b4dd14.h
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
June 5, 2021 at 7:09 PM
It’s absolutely the subbers. Like the ones that change Weibo to Twitter.
As you can see, the Korean constitution definitely has something in it about self-incrimination but it isn’t the fifth amendment (as your reference shows). If Wikipedia can be trusted then the fifth amendment was to remove a reference from the constitution to the April Revolution.
DancingEmma
September 23, 2021 at 4:36 PM
I am a law professor and a former lawyer so I have to watch this when I have some time to breath!