'Unfortunately, the manuscript has been lost.'
This sentence in the first line of the Seoul Administrative Court ruling is an expression that is hard to find in ordinary court rulings.
The court also presented an at-a-glance illustration of the principle of equality, which was used as the main basis for the judgment.
The hearing-impaired plaintiff asked to 'write the judgment in easy-to-understand terms', and the court accepted it.
It uses the 'Easy Lead' method to help people with disabilities understand more easily with easy sentences and pictures, which is a first for a Korean court.
It's a welcome and positive change.
But there is still a long way to go.
In the last 20th National Assembly, 'revising the civil law in an easy way' was promoted, and court investigators introduced expressions to replace difficult terms in the internal bulletin, but all such efforts have now stopped.
Still, court rulings are full of terms that are difficult to understand.
As small waves gather and become big waves, today is the hope that small changes in the courthouse will return to a better tomorrow.
(SBS 8 News)