Secretly photographed texts can prove affair, court says

South Korea’s Supreme Court has ruled that photos of text messages and other files taken from a spouse’s mobile phone can be used as evidence in a civil lawsuit over an alleged affair, even if the material was collected unlawfully. The ruling draws a line between secretly recorded conversations, which remain inadmissible under communications privacy law, and phone images used to prove claims in civil litigation. The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a lower court ruling that partly sided with a pla

By The Korea Herald