According to Korean High Court, you become a person at a time coinciding with your mother's contractions:
On July 9 the Supreme Court of South Korea stated that a human fetus is not a human person until the morning that the mother goes into labor, JoongAng Daily reports.Hmmm.... Korea's "legal view" is quite arbitrary - this is almost as absurd as a nation that recognizes the humanity of pre-born babies and yet grants parents the "right" to kill their children prior to birth.[snip]
The decision was in accordance with past court rulings in 1982 and 1998, which stated that an unborn child could only be ruled a person after labor begins. Commenting on the present legal position, Presiding Judge Park Si-hwan declared, "Right now, it is too early to change Korea's legal point of view that an unborn child is not a human being."
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