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'''South Korea''', a traditionally non-circumcising nation, nevertheless, adopted the practice of non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] during and after the Korean War (1950-53). The adoption of [[circumcision]] may be traced to 1950, when the [[United States]] intervened in the Korean War and large numbers of mostly [[circumcised]] American troops were sent into South Korea to aid in its defense.<ref name="kim1999">{{REFjournal
|last=Kim
|first=DaiSik
|init=DS
|author-link=DaiSik Kim
|etal=no
|title=Male circumcision: a South Korean perspective
|journal=BJU Int
|location=
|date=1999-01
|volume=83 Suppl 1 |issue=Suppl 1
|article=
|page=28-33
|last=Kim
|first=DaiSik
|init=DS |auntolauthor-link=DaiSik Kim
|last2=Pang
|first2=Myung-Geol
|init2=MG
|title=The effect of male circumcision on sexuality
|journal=BJU Int
|last=Kim
|first=DaiSik
|init=DS
|author-link=DaiSik Kim
|last2=Koo
|first2= Sung-Ae Koo |init2=SA
|author2-link=
|last3=Pang
|first3=Myung-Geol
|init3=MG
|author3-link=
|etal=no
===Human rights issues===
The General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the ''[[International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights]]'' (ICCPR) in December 1966.<ref name="lee1993">{{REFjournal |last=Lee |first=Suk T. Lee, [Tae |init=ST |url=https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjil/vol14/iss4/3?utm_source=repository.law.umich.edu%2Fmjil%2Fvol14%2Fiss4%2F3&utm_medium=PDF&utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages |title=South Korea: Implementation and Application of Human Rights Covenants], |journal=MJIL |volume=14 MICH.J. INT'LL. |issue=705 ( |date=1993) |accessdate=2023-11-02}}.</ref> The Republic of Korea (South Korea) ratified this international [[human rights]] treaty in April 1990. Article 6(1) of the ''Constitution of the Republic of Korea'' provides that treaties "duly concluded and promulgated under the Constitution and the generally recognized rules of international law shall have the same effect as the domestic laws of the Republic of Korea."<ref name="ROKConstitution1948"/><ref name="lee1993" />
Article 2(1) of the [[ICCPR]] provides: