The Republic of Korea’s Military Criminal Code (1962) provides that the rape of women in combat or in an occupied zone is punishable by the death penalty. 

The Republic of Korea’s ICC Act (2007) provides for the punishment of crimes listed in the 1998 ICC Statute, including in both international and non-international armed conflicts: genocide by “[i]mposing measures intended to prevent births within the group”; “[r]ape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violation of comparable gravity” as crimes against humanity; as well as the war crimes of “[r]ape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization against a person who is to be protected under international humanitarian law”.