FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT IN THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (SOUTH KOREA)

Abstract

This study examines the formation and development of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Korea (South Korea), taking into account historical patterns and the current political and legal situation. We have studied the most important aspects of the Republic of Korea's official constitutional and legal doctrine. The effectiveness of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Korea, which implements the function of constitutional and legal protection, is assessed from the standpoint of the development of legal regulation and the activities of the most important subjects of constitutional control (the Constitutional Court and others). In order to obtain reliable results for the study, the authors used a number of specific legal methods (formal-legal, systemic-structural and comparative legal) along with general scientific and unique methods, all of which enabled them to discover the constitutional and legal nature and content of the Constitutional Court's activities. This study is unique in that it identifies and characterizes one of the elements of South Korean constitutionalism - the formation and development of the Constitutional Court. We draw conclusions about the high level of legal and constitutional development in the Republic of Korea and its Constitutional Court in particular.