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interest and penalty to be inflicted on the violation of this requirement;
iv) survey on the practice of requesting family relationship certificates,
and presentation of appropriate guidelines for the request of the
certificates.
As for adoption permission stipulated by the Act on Special Cases
concerning Adoption, it is mandatory to submit the birth report. And as
a result, various family relationship certificates show the information on
the biological parents. As such, there has been a rising concern that
biological parents, who do not want their personal information to be
released, would rather abandon their infants.
With regard to adoption, the NHRCK issued recommendations which
asked for additional actions for the protection of personal information of
the concerned parties. The recommendations include: institutionalization
of restricting access to the personal information of biological parents,
with
regard
to
the
preservation
and
disclosure
of
information,
harmonizing the protection of anonymity of biological parents and the
protection of the right of children to know their biological parents;
exceptional legal provisions for access, with the permission of the court,
to the restricted personal information in case of the medical treatment
of children's genetic disease or the need to find out children's biological
parents.
J. Recommendation on Promoting Female Soldiers in the Military
Premises
The number of female soldiers of Korea is slightly more than 8,000,
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