Document Korea’s 1957 cannabis controls from the original law

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 # Korea 1957–1976 — import ban, paper criminalisation, crackdown, total ban
 
+**Original-text correction (27 October 2026):** the “import-only” description
+below is superseded by [the primary-law review](history-korea-1957-primary-2026-10-27.md).
+The original law names Cannabis sativa L. without an import-only qualification.
+The local-hemp distinction is reported practice; its legal interpretation remains open.
+
 Replaces the flat 1976-only story (1976 entry previously had `before` = FREE)
 with a four-step chain, all from read sources.

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+# Korea's 1957 narcotics law: original-text review
+
+Read maintenance, writing, article and earlier Korea research guidance. The previous goal turn resolved #219 and was progress. This pass fills a high-ranked first-ban article gap and replaces a single secondary-source entry with original-law evidence.
+
+## Sources read
+
+- National Law Information Center, original Narcotics Act, Act 440: https://www.law.go.kr/LSW/lsInfoP.do?lsiSeq=7835 . Web fetch failed; the in-app browser loaded the historical version. Read articles 1–7, 60–73 and licensing definitions. Promulgated 23 April 1957, effective 23 June. Article 2(3) names `인도대마초 “칸나비스사티바ㆍ엘”`, seeds, resin and products; excludes mature stalks, their products and non-germinating seeds. Article 4 prohibits unlicensed handling with exceptions. Article 6(1) prohibits unauthorised use; (3) covers cultivation/materials with ministerial approval exceptions; (4) prohibits making and administering Indian-hemp medicines. Article 60 gives up to ten years for article 4 and article 6(2)–(5) offences; article 62 gives up to five years for article 6(1). Penalties attach to the listed category; actual application to local hemp requires historical interpretation.
+- Matt VanVolkenburg, Korea Times, 20 March 2018, full article: https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/globalcommunity/20180320/korea-encounters-how-us-style-drug-laws-helped-crush-1970s-korean-youth-culture . Local hemp reportedly ignored, base-town sales, US requests from 1966, July 1970 passage. Historical newspaper reconstruction, not a binding interpretation of article 2.
+- Constitutional Court, 2002Hun-Ba24, 27 November 2003: https://law.go.kr/LSW/detcInfoP.do?detcSeq=134634 . Read legislative-history section 3(a)(1): colonial opium/Korean War background, military-government rules replaced in 1957, cannabis control under the 1970 and separate 1976 laws. The case concerns opium; used only for its explicit legislative history, not as a cannabis-definition ruling.
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+## Changes and remaining gap
+
+Added the 1957 article, approximately 400 words, covering exclusions, regulated conduct, medicine restrictions, reported domestic-hemp practice and the later sequence. Refined the entry date to commencement and replaced its single Wikipedia reference. Corrected “imported” in two companion articles and linked the new article.
+
+The earlier Korea note's “import-only” description is superseded: no foreign-provenance condition appears in the original cannabis definition. The historical account nevertheless describes domestic hemp as outside its practical reach until 1970. Contemporary taxonomic/administrative interpretation, original implementing definitions and the 1970 act remain open leads. The existing score sequence is retained provisionally on that reported domestic-hemp distinction; no unsupported assertion that all domestic users faced the listed penalties in 1957 is made. No current score changed.
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+Austria remains a blocked original-text lead: the RIS catalogue confirms 244/1928 and 29 September publication, but prior notes record inaccessible original text and ALEX security checks. No article was fabricated from that catalogue evidence. A PMC Korea paper returned a browser-check page and was not used as a read source.
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+The first validation attempt hit a full disk before running. Rechecked disk state and resumed after free space became available; research downloads were preserved.
+
+## Validation
+
+- 42 history tests and 69 profile/answer tests pass; Korea's five-step chain reports zero flagged steps.
+- Full forced production build passes: 4,486 pages and 2,386 optimised images. A first retry after the disk failure hit missing emitted image assets; forcing a refresh resolved it.
+- Browser check confirms the article, exact date, all three numbered references and links to the 1970/1975/1976 events. Body length: 376 words.
+- Archive index already records same-day availability checks for both new law.go.kr sources, with no copy found. The repository's existing save worker was confirmed running during verification; no archive availability is claimed.

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   assert.deepEqual(dupes, []);
 });
+
+
+test("Korea's 1957 original text is distinguished from local-hemp practice",()=>{
+ const e=byId['south-korea-narcotics-act-1957'];
+ assert.equal(e.date,'1957-06-23');
+ assert.match(e.sources[0].url,/lsiSeq=7835/);
+ assert.match(e.description,/no import-only qualification/);
+ for(const id of ['south-korea-narcotics-act-1957','south-korea-habit-forming-drugs-law-1970','south-korea-entertainers-arrested-1975']){
+  const text=fs.readFileSync(`articles/${id}.md`,'utf8');
+  assert.doesNotMatch(text,/banned only imported|forbidden only imported/);
+  assert.ok(text.includes('lsiSeq=7835'));
+ }
+});