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• What is the offence of frightening someone into handing over property, where the threat stops short of leaving them unable to resist?Criminal law and procedure
• Which principle applies Korea's criminal code even to crimes committed abroad by Korean citizens?Criminal law and procedure
• What is the offence of making up facts and reporting them to investigators so that someone else faces criminal punishment?Criminal law and procedure
• In Korea, which court order makes a person do a set number of hours of unpaid work for the public good?Criminal law and procedure
• Under Korean law, a person who bought a weapon in order to commit murder can be punished even if they never went on to act.Criminal law and procedure
• In a Korean criminal trial, guilt must be proven to the point where no reasonable doubt remains.Criminal law and procedure
• When a prosecutor takes a case to court, what document setting out the alleged facts and the provisions to be applied is filed with the court?Criminal law and procedure
• Not knowing that an act was forbidden by law is not, on its own, enough to escape punishment.Criminal law and procedure
• Someone who gives a bribe to a public official is not an official, so they are not punished.Criminal law and procedure
• A confession obtained through torture or threats cannot be used as evidence of guilt, even if what it says is true.Criminal law and procedure
• Under Korean law, the rule is that a suspect is investigated while held in detention.Criminal law and procedure
• Under Korean law, hitting someone does not amount to assault if the other person is not hurt.Criminal law and procedure
• Under Korean law, an accessory who only helped with another's crime is given the same sentence as the principal who carried it out.Criminal law and procedure
• In Korea, a suspect who has been arrested can be held for a week without the question of detention ever going to a judge.Criminal law and procedure
• Under Korean law, a person who does not pay a fine can be confined in a workhouse and made to work.Criminal law and procedure
• How does the register pass to the person who has paid the auction price in full?Civil law and everyday rights
• What happens to the deposit put down by someone who bids at a court auction and loses?Civil law and everyday rights
• What happens if you offer less than the minimum sale price the court has set?Civil law and everyday rights
• When does the winning bidder at an auction become the owner of the property?Civil law and everyday rights
• What should a buyer do if the former owner is still living in a property bought at auction?Civil law and everyday rights
• What does the runner-up file in advance in case the winning bidder never pays?Civil law and everyday rights
• The deposit handed in with a bid at a court auction is usually how much, and of what?Civil law and everyday rights
• What must you look at to find a tenant who does not show up on the register?Civil law and everyday rights
• What does the court enter on the register to announce that auction proceedings have begun?Civil law and everyday rights
• If someone is renting the property, the register alone will show how large their deposit is.Civil law and everyday rights
• A buyer at auction can end up carrying maintenance charges the previous owner left unpaid.Civil law and everyday rights
• What decides who gets to buy a property at a court auction?Civil law and everyday rights
• Only the creditors who are owed money may buy a home at a court auction; nobody else can put in a price.Civil law and everyday rights
• A court auction sells a debtor's property by force so that the proceeds can pay off the debt.Civil law and everyday rights
• An auction can only start once the people living in the property have cleared out and left it empty.Civil law and everyday rights
• Details of a property at a court auction can be seen only by those who have put in a price.Civil law and everyday rights
• To put in a price at a court auction you must also hand over a set deposit.Civil law and everyday rights
• A tenant has to move out of the property first in order to receive a share of the auction proceeds.Civil law and everyday rights
• If a property at auction finds no buyer once, the minimum sale price falls for the next date.Civil law and everyday rights
• If the winning bidder fails to pay by the deadline, the deposit put down earlier is returned.Civil law and everyday rights
• When someone dies leaving both descendants and ascendants, which of them inherits first?Civil law and everyday rights
• What does the Civil Act call it when you handle someone else's affairs for them without ever being asked?Civil law and everyday rights
• Which document has a government office confirm that the seal stamped on a contract is the signer's own?Civil law and everyday rights
• What is the right and duty by which parents protect and raise a minor child and manage the child's property?Civil law and everyday rights
• When the price of a property is paid in stages, what is the last payment, made as the registration is handed over?Civil law and everyday rights
• Which Korean court handles family and succession matters, from divorce to renouncing an inheritance?Civil law and everyday rights
• Which contract is it when you ask someone else to take care of your affairs for you?Civil law and everyday rights
• Which Korean civil procedure is built to finish in one or two hearings when the amount in dispute is 30 million won or less?Civil law and everyday rights
• What is it called when you challenge a first-instance judgment and ask the second-instance court to look again?Civil law and everyday rights
• What does the Civil Act call the state where goods promised have burned away, so performance itself has become impossible?Civil law and everyday rights
• A claim to be paid money belongs to that person alone and cannot be handed to anyone else.Civil law and everyday rights
• Under Korean law, an agreement to register real estate under someone else's name holds good as long as both sides agreed to it.Civil law and everyday rights
• In a civil lawsuit, what do we call the side that brought the suit?Civil law and everyday rights
• If two people lend money without agreeing on interest, the borrower only has to repay the principal.Civil law and everyday rights
• Someone who finds lost property may ask the owner for a reward when handing it back.Civil law and everyday rights
• A guarantor who pays off the debt in the principal debtor's place can demand that money back from them.Civil law and everyday rights
• Under the Korean Civil Act, a companion animal is treated as a thing rather than as a person.Civil law and everyday rights
• Under Korean law, a debt one spouse takes on to run the household is theirs alone and the other spouse bears nothing.Civil law and everyday rights
• Under Korean law, registering a marriage turns the property each spouse owned beforehand into joint property.Civil law and everyday rights
• Parents and children owe each other a duty of support even after the child becomes an adult.Civil law and everyday rights
• Under Korean law, a buyer who simply changes their mind can undo the contract without the seller agreeing.Civil law and everyday rights
• What is the contract called where one side agrees to give their property to the other for nothing in return?Civil law and everyday rights
• What does the Korean Civil Act call a contract to borrow money and later repay the same amount?Civil law and everyday rights
• Which institution of the Korean Civil Act makes a person who harms another intentionally or negligently pay for that harm?Civil law and everyday rights
• At what point does a contract of sale come into existence?Civil law and everyday rights