SEOUL: Share price of South Korea's biggest condom maker surged on Thursday after the country's highest court struck down a decades-old law banning adultery.

Shares of Unidus Corp, which makes latex products including condoms, soared to the 15 per cent daily limit gain after the ruling.

The law had been enacted in 1953 to protect women in a male-dominated society where divorce was rare and had made marital infidelity punishable by jail.

"The law is unconstitutional as it infringes people's right to make their own decisions on sex and secrecy and freedom of their private life, violating the principle banning excessive enforcement under the constitution," said Seo Ki Seok, a Constitutional Court justice, reading an opinion representing five justices. – REUTERS.





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