Animal Rights Group Invokes the Constitution for Legal Definition of Animals
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean animal rights group Care is challenging the 98th article of the Civil Code, which designates animals as “things,” and has asked the Constitutional Court of Korea to adjudicate its constitutionality. The code legally defines “things” as “corporeal things, electricity, and other natural forces which can be managed,” [...]