Each and every law manufactured by the Japanese imperialists in Korea in the past were unprecedentedly evil, anti-human rights laws aimed at depriving Korean people of all political freedoms and rights, and forcing colonial slavery upon them.
Abolition of these evil laws that served to systematize servile submission and deprivation of rights was the first priority for the protection system that provides genuine democratic freedom and rights to the Korean people.
Thus, soon after liberation measures were taken to declare that all the laws and regulations enforced under the Japanese colonial rule were no longer effective and no legal order was permissible which was opposed to the building of a new country and the interests of the Korean people.
It was the manifestation of the Korean people’s will to verify by law that all laws of the Japanese imperialists were abolished and to establish a new human rights protection system for the guarantee of the freedom and rights of Korean nation on the basis of the democratic legal order.
It was regarded as something unavoidable in former colonies to continue to enforce some of the colonial laws or refer to them when preparing bills.
But Korea adhered to the principle of abolishing the whole evil colonial laws and establishing a new legal system and order for the protection and promotion of the freedom and rights of people on the basis of the democratic and revolutionary legal consciousness of the people and as required by the new society.
