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Criminal Act — Article 161 (Abandonment of Corpse)

형법 제161조

This English translation is based on the Korean text effective 2023-08-08. The Korean law has since been amended (current version effective 2026-10-02) — check the Korean original.

(1) A person who damages, destroys, abandons, conceals, or takes possession of a corpse, remains, or hair of the dead, or any article deposited in a coffin, shall be punished by imprisonment with labor for not more than seven years.

(2) A person who commits a crime prescribed in paragraph (1) by excavating a grave shall be punished by imprisonment with labor for not more than ten years.[This Article Wholly Amended on Dec. 8, 2020]

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