Unfortunately, the development of legal medicine in Korea has been comparatively slow, sporadic and quite often superficial.
And courses in legal medicine at medical schools in Korea are relatively few in number, and most of these are quite inadequ...
Unfortunately, the development of legal medicine in Korea has been comparatively slow, sporadic and quite often superficial.
And courses in legal medicine at medical schools in Korea are relatively few in number, and most of these are quite inadequate and incomplete because of the limited time that is made available to the instructors.
Outside of medical schools, there are only a few post-graduate seminars, lectures and monthly meeting by the Korean society for legal medicine.
For these deficiencies are being corrected, first of all, must be reviewed the historical background and problems of legal medicine in past time of Korea, therefore, in this article reviewed the ancestor's legal medicine and medicolegal system in past time of Korea, and discussed the themes and prospects for development of legal medicine in each field of forensic pathology, forensic serology and clinical jurisprudence respectively.
The problems of Medicolegal appraisals especially related with application for them and social problem were also discussed.