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Article 246
 

(Interference with Election by Many Persons) 


(1) Many persons, if assembling to commit an act provided in Articles 243 through 245, shall be punished as follows:


1. The prime mover shall be punished by imprisonment with prison labor for not less than three years;


2. Any person who directs or leads other persons shall be punished by imprisonment with prison labor for not less than two years nor more than ten years;


3. Any person who blindly follows other persons shall be punished by imprisonment with prison labor for not more than five years.


(2) If a group of persons who assemble to commit an act provided in Articles 243 through 245 fails to break up even when the public official
concerned has ordered them to break up three or more times, their leader shall be punished by imprisonment with prison labor for not more than
five years, and other persons by imprisonment with prison labor for not more than one year or by a fine not exceeding two million won.