Does South Korea use jury trials?
Limited use / mixed courts
Citizen participation trials use juries only when defendant requests it, with court discretion to exclude cases.
South Korea is one of 16 countries classified “Limited use / mixed courts” for jury trials — 55% of the 29 with data.
Source
- Taken from
- Wikipedia: Jury trial
- Last checked
- 7 July 2026
- How it was classified
- Classified by a language model from the source text, then checked against hand-verified reference countries.
Nearby countries
- Japan
- Limited use / mixed courts Japan introduced a lay judge system for serious crimes, but not general jury trials.
- Taiwan
- Jury trials used Citizen judge system implemented in 2023, with random selection of citizens participating in felony trials.
- Hong Kong
- Jury trials used Hong Kong maintains jury trials for criminal cases in the High Court, but not in the District Court.
- Malaysia
- Not used Malaysia abolished jury trials in 1995 due to concerns about impartiality.
- Russia
- Limited use / mixed courts Jury trials are limited to serious crimes in Russia, with only about 600 per year out of 1 million trials.
- India
- Limited use / mixed courts India used jury trials in High Courts of Presidency towns, but not elsewhere under British rule.
Other laws in South Korea
- Death Penalty
- Not used in practice
- School Corporal Punishment
- Banned
- Military Conscription
- Active conscription
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