<P> Capital punishment is a legal penalty in South Korea . As of 2017, there are at least 300 people in South Korea under a death sentence . Executions are carried out by hanging . </P> <P> On February 19, 2016, the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence passed on a man known by the surname' Lim', a 24 - year - old conscripted Army sergeant who killed five fellow soldiers and injured seven others in a shooting rampage near the border with North Korea in 2014 . He became the 361st person on death row in South Korea . According to Yonhap, of the 361 people on death row, 45, including Lim, were soldiers . </P>

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