「CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA」
CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA
[Enforcement Date 25. Feb, 1988.] [Constitution No.10, 29. Oct, 1987., Whole Amendment]
PREAMBLE
We, the people of Korea, proud of a resplendent history and traditions dating from time
immemorial, upholding the cause of the Provisional Republic of Korea Government born of the
March First Independence Movement of 1919 and the democratic ideals of the April
Nineteenth Uprising of 1960 against injustice, having assumed the mission of democratic
reform and peaceful unification of our homeland and having determined to consolidate
national unity with justice, humanitarianism and brotherly love, and
To destroy all social vices and injustice, and
To afford equal opportunities to every person and provide for the fullest development of
individual capabilities in all fields, including political, economic, social and cultural life by
further strengthening the basic free and democratic order conducive to private initiative and
public harmony, and
To help each person discharge those duties and responsibilities concomitant to freedoms
and rights, and
To elevate the quality of life for all citizens and contribute to lasting world peace and the
common prosperity of mankind and thereby to ensure security, liberty and happiness for
ourselves and our posterity forever, Do hereby amend, through national referendum following
a resolution by the National Assembly, the Constitution, ordained and established on the
Twelfth Day of July anno Domini Nineteen hundred and forty-eight, and amended eight times
subsequently.
Oct. 29, 1987
CHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1 (1) The Republic of Korea shall be a democratic republic.
(2) The sovereignty of the Republic of Korea shall reside in the people, and all state
authority shall emanate from the people.
Article 2 (1) Nationality in the Republic of Korea shall be prescribed by Act.
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