Condom stock rises on adultery ruling in S. Korea


Condom stock rises on adultery ruling in S. Korea 

South Korea's highest court struck down a decades-old law banning adultery, a statute that critics said is anachronistic and infringes on personal freedom, sending shares in the country's biggest condom 

maker surging. The law had been enacted in 1953 to protect women in a male-dominated society where divorce was rare and had made marital infidelity punishable by jail.