88. The “Public Official Election Act” of Korea stipulates that when any political party intends to recommend its member as candidates to run in the proportional representative National Assembly member election, such political party shall recommend not less than 50/100 of the candidates from among women and recommend candidates falling under every odd number in order of the candidate roll from among women. The government is implementing various policies to address social, economic and political discrimination against women, including “Career Development Center for Women” as a series of employment success package. Regarding violence against women, despite that the Korean government enforced the “Violence Against Women Act” on 25 December 2019 and has implemented various policies, more active measures are needed to prevent violence against women such as rape, domestic violence and digital sexual crime. 89. The article 297 of the “Criminal Act” prescribes that “violence or intimidation” is the constituent of rape and doesn’t include victim’s free consent in the scope of sexual violence against women. In particular, the law hardly considers marital rape − non-consensual sexual relations between spouses − as rape. 90. Domestic violence increased from 160,272 in 2013 to 264,528 in 2016, and the family protection cases under the “Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment, Etc. of Crimes of Domestic Violence” jumped from 494 in 2012 to 19,834 in 201617. However, the main purpose of the law is to maintain and restore the family, which led to the result that the 43.4% perpetrators of 16,868 cases of domestic protection orders did not receive any criminal punishment. They are sentenced to the lowest penalty with a 17 CEDAW/C/KOR/CO.8. 32