「CRIMINAL ACT」
workhouse when payment of such fine or minor fine is not made in full. <Amended on
Dec. 8, 2020>
(2) A substitute term of lockup at a workhouse of at least 300 days shall be specified for a
fine imposed by a sentence, if the fine is at least 100 million won but less than 500 million
won; a substitute term of lockup of at least 500 days, if the fine is at least 500 million won
but less than five billion won; or a substitute term of lockup of at least 1,000 days, if the
fine is at least five billion won. <Newly Inserted on May 14, 2014; Dec. 8, 2020>
[Title Amended on Dec. 8, 2020]
Article 71 (Deduction of Number of Days of Lockup) Where a person has paid only a portion
of a fine or minor fine to which he or she was sentenced, such number of days
corresponding to the amount of money paid shall be deducted, in accordance with the
ratio of the entire fine or minor fine to the full period set for lockup at a workhouse.
[This Article Wholly Amended on Dec. 8, 2020]
SECTION 6 Parole
Article 72 (Requisites for Parole) (1) If a person under execution of imprisonment with or
without labor has behaved himself or herself well and has shown sincere repentance, such
person may be provisionally released by an act of the administrative authorities when 20
years of a sentence for an indefinite term or 1/3 of a limited term of punishment has been
served.
(2) If a fine or minor fine has been imposed concurrently with the punishment specified in
paragraph (1), the amount thereof shall be paid in full in order for the parole to be
granted.
[This Article Wholly Amended on Dec. 8, 2020]
Article 73 (Confinement before Imposition of Sentence and Parole) (1) In cases of release on
parole, the number of days of confinement before imposition of sentence which is
included in the period of sentence shall be counted as a period that has been served.
(2) In the case of Article 72 (2), the number of days of confinement before imposition of
sentence counted as the period of lockup at a workhouse for fine or minor fine shall be
deemed to be the payment of the corresponding amount.
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