Korean Job Discussion Forums

[cazzy3]

My wife and I are trying to register our baby (birth certificate, etc.) and we're hearing that the last name needs to be Korean??!! I realize it's easier for some to use my wife's last name since it's the typical monosyllabic, while mine is three, but there can't be any official rule that disallows for foreign last names is there???

thanks for any info on this-

cheers

[Scott in Incheon]

Not true for my children...both of my kids have my last name both on their Canadian and their Korean passports.

[Captain Corea]

^^ same as mine.

[SuperHero]

Someone is too lazy to do their job and is making up the rules as they go.

[jontpanty]

We had the same thing told to us as the OP, so I'm not too sure what the rule (law?) is for that. I just figured it's Korea, just let it go. So, my son has two totally different names, one for each government. We'll see what happens in the future. Hopefully, there won't be complications later.

[crossmr]

[DaeSung]

[eamo]

I think the OP is correct in that the official Korean family register document can only use Korean names. Something that I'm pretty miffed about too.

But other things like birth certificate and passport.......you can use foreign names.

[Sucker]

When we registered our marriage with the local office, one of the questions on the form was �Will any future children use the father�s (foreign) family name, or the mother�s (Korean) family name?� We selected that any future kids would use my family name. The woman at the counter tried to encourage us to change our selection. But we did not.


Perhaps this current problem you are having has something to do with the form you filled out when you registered your marriage�?

Maybe you can request to update your answer on this form?

[BigBuds]

[Adventurer]

[eamo]

[SHANE02]

My daughter has no Korean name and we had no problem at any time with registration, health insurance and alike. Her name is of course written IN Korean on forms, but her name is an English one.

[GoldMember]

Nearly every day someone here posts a question usually in the following form, "What is the regulation in regard to (insert item here)".
The simple answer to any and every problem/question you encounter is GET THE GOVERNMENT PERSON TO SHOW YOU THE LAW/REGULATIONS.
Additional problems may arise when said regulations are incomplete/open to a huge variety of interpretations/or are downright contradictory.
In other words get them to prove it. If they can't prove then whatever the person said is wrong!

[cdninkorea]