Certificates include the Family Relations Certificate, the Identification Certificate, the Marriage Relations Certificate, the Adoption Relations Certificate, and the Full Adoption Relations Certificate, etc. Each of the certificates can be issued in the general, detailed, and specific forms in order to prevent negative side effects or damage from the unnecessary exposure of personal information.
In principle, the general form (containing only the essential information such as the current status, etc.) or the specific form (containing only the information selected by the applicant) should be used, and the detailed form (containing all information including past status, etc.) could be used only when there exists a special reason.
Family Relations Certificate
Family Relations Certificate
| Common Items |
The person concerned’s place of registration, name, gender, place of family origin, date of birth, and Korean ID number
The specific certificate may contain the place of registration and/or the place of family origin at the applicant’s request.
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| Individual Items |
General |
Information on the parents, spouse, and children alive and from a spouse currently married to the person concerned
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| Detailed |
Information on the parents, spouse, and all children of the person concerned
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| Specific |
Information on the members of the family selected by the applicant, among the parents, spouse, and all children of the person concerned
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Identification Certificate
Identification Certificate
| Common Items |
The person concerned’s place of registration, name, gender, place of family origin, date of birth, and Korean ID number
The specific certificate may contain the place of registration and/or the place of family origin at the applicant’s request.
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| Individual Items |
General |
Information on the person concerned’s birth, death, and denationalization
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| Detailed |
Information on the person concerned’s birth, death, recognition of parentship, parental authority, nationality, change of name, gender, etc.
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| Specific |
Birth/Death/Disappearance |
Information on the person concerned’s birth, death, declaration of disappearance, corrected date of birth and Korean ID number, etc.
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| Recognition of parentship/Correction of biological parentship |
Information on the person concerned’s recognition of parentship, denial of biological parentship, etc.
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| Parental Authority/ Guardianship for minors |
All)
Information on the person concerned’s all parental right, guardianship, or guardianship for minors
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Current)
Information on the person concerned’s currently effective parental right, guardianship, or guardianship for minors
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| Change of Name and Change of Surname and Place of Family Origin |
Information on the person concerned’s change of name, creation or change of Surname and Place of Family Origin, etc.
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| Acquisition and Loss of Nationality |
Information on the person concerned’s naturalization, denationalization, reinstation of nationality, etc.
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| Correction of the gender |
Information on the person concerned’s correction of gender, correction of the gender number specified in the Korean ID number
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Marriage Relation Certificate
Marriage Relation Certificate
| Common Items |
The person concerned’s place of registration, name, gender, place of family origin, date of birth, and Korean ID number
The specific certificate may contain the place of registration and/or the place of family origin at the applicant’s request.
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| Individual Items |
General |
Information on the spouse and current marriage
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| Detailed |
Information on the spouse, marriage, and divorce
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| Specific |
Information on the marriage, among other marriages, selected by the applicant
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Adoption Relation Certificate
Adoption Relation Certificate
| Common Items |
The person concerned’s place of registration, name, gender, place of family origin, date of birth, and Korean ID number
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| Individual Items |
General |
Information on biological/adoptive parents or adopted children and the current adoption
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| Detailed |
Information on biological/adoptive parents or adopted children, adoption, and dissolution of adoption
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Full Adoption Relation Certificate
Full Adoption Relation Certificate
| Common Items |
The person concerned’s place of registration, name, gender, place of family origin, date of birth, and Korean ID number
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| Individual Items |
General |
Information on biological/adoptive parents or fully adopted children and the current full adoption
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| Detailed |
Information on biological/adoptive parents or fully adopted children, full adoption, and dissolution of full adoption
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English Certificate of Family Relations
English Certificate of Family Relations
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Listed Items
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Information on the applicant's birth and current marriage
- Applicant's name, gender, date of birth, Korean ID number, place of birth
- Parents' name, gender, date of birth, Korean ID number, etc.
- Spouse's name, gender, date of birth, Korean ID number, date of marriage, etc.
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Certified Copy/Extract of Archived Family Register
Certified Copy/Extract of Archived Family Register
| Certified Copy of Archived Family Register |
Information on the Family Census Register such as the place of family register; information on status such as names, names of the parents, birth, marriage, and death of the head and all members of the family
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| Certified Extract of Archived Family Register |
Information on the Family Census Register such as the place of family register; information on status such as names, names of the parents; birth, marriage, and death of the head of the family and the person concerned
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