CRIMINAL ACT (PART II INDIVIDUAL PROVISIONS) [See entire ACT]

CHAPTER XII CRIMES CONCERNING DECEASED PERSONS

Article 158 (Disturbing Funeral Service, etc.)

A person who disturbs funeral rites, rituals, worship, or preaching, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than three years or by a fine not exceeding five million won.

Article 159 (Defiling Corpse, etc.)

A person who defiles a corpse, remains, or the hair of the dead, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than two years or by a fine not exceeding five million won.

Article 160 (Excavation of Grave)

A person who excavates a grave shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than five years.

Article 161 (Exploring Tombs, etc.)

(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 for not more than seven years.
(2) A person who commits the crime of the preceding paragraph by excavating a grave shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than ten years.

Article 162 (Attempts)

Attempts to commit the crimes provided in the preceding two Articles shall be punished.

Article 163 (Obstruction of Inquest over Unnatural Corpse)

Any person who conceals or alters a corpse of a person who has died unnaturally, or a corpse suspicious of unnatural death, or obstructs the inquest over such corpse by other way, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding seven million won.

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