Right to Protection of Honor, Dignity, and Reputation under the Civil Code
This is an extremely important provision concerning the honor, dignity, and reputation of individuals, which everyone needs to know in order to protect themselves and their loved ones.
Specifically:
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The honor, dignity, and reputation of an individual are inviolable and protected by law.
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An individual has the right to request the Court to reject information that adversely affects his/her honor, dignity, or reputation.
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The protection of honor, dignity, and reputation may be carried out even after an individual’s death at the request of his/her spouse or adult child; in the absence of such persons, at the request of the deceased’s parents, unless otherwise provided by relevant laws.
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Information adversely affecting an individual’s honor, dignity, or reputation that is published in mass media must be removed and corrected through the same medium. If such information is stored by an agency, organization, or individual, it must be destroyed.
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In case the person who disseminated the adverse information cannot be identified, the affected individual has the right to request the Court to declare that the information is untrue.
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An individual whose honor, dignity, or reputation is adversely affected by information, in addition to the right to request rejection of such information, also has the right to request the provider of the information to issue a public apology, correction, and compensation for damages.
(Legal basis: Article 34 of the 2015 Civil Code).
