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17.1 Accession and Reservations to International Human Rights Treaties17.1.1 Korea’s Entry into Human Rights TreatiesKorea is a party to major international human rights treaties. According to article 6(1) of the Korean Constitution adopted in 1987, treaties signed and promulgated in accordance with the Constitution have the same force as domestic law. While sometimes Korean courts do not recognize human rights treaties as having force, human rights treaties are likely to be invoked directly by domestic courts and to be treated to have domestic legal force.Before the 1990s, Kor…