National Human Rights Commission of the Republic of Korea I. Improvement Recommendation and Opinion on Registration of Family Relationship On October 28, 2013, the NHRCK recommended the Minister of Justice and the Chief Justice that they should take action to revise the Act on the Registration, etc. of Family Relationship (hereinafter, "Family Registration Act") the improve the registration of family relationship. The Commission also issued an opinion of the same content. The Commission concluded that government authorities should re-establish the public disclosure principle of personal identification information, and should promote the effectiveness of the prohibition of requesting unnecessary certificates. In detail, the Commission expressed serious concerns: different kinds of certificates often release more information than is needed such as offspring out of wedlock or in previous wedlock, marital history such as divorce, re-marriage, death of spouse, and other personal information including the divorce of parents; ignorance of most people about the partial information certification system; and conventional issuing of certificates containing the whole personal information if partial information certificates are not requested. As a result, the NHRCK made the following recommendations: i) principle of containing the minimum personal information or the current personal information, and exceptional principle of containing the past personal or the whole information; ii) principle of containing only what is asked by the requester; iii) legal requirement for public and private entities to ask for information only needed for specific purposes or Chapter 1. Improvement of Laws and Regulations, Institution, Policies, and Practices ▪▪▪ 43