South Korea Court Rules Secretly Photographed Texts Admissible in Affair Cases

Secretly photographed texts can prove affair, court says

South Korea’s Supreme Court has ruled that photos of text messages and other files taken from a spouse’s mobile phone can be used as evidence in a civil lawsuit over an alleged affair, even if the material was collected unlawfully. The ruling draws a line between secretly recorded conversations, which remain inadmissible under communications privacy law, and phone images used to prove claims in civil litigation. The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a lower court ruling that partly sided with a pla

By The Korea Herald