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per week. The hours spent on studying leads to the lack of leisure time.
2) Questions
201. What is the government’s plan to guarantee the children’s rights to play?
H. Special Protection Measures
(Arts. 22, 30, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37 (b)-(d), and 38-40)
1. Asylum-seeking and Refugee Children
Issue 54. Birth Registration for Refugee Children
1) Current status
202. Birth registration in Korea is processed in accordance to the Act on Registration, etc.
of Family Relationships, and it stipulates only the birth of Korean nationals, so children from
immigrant families should follow a birth registration law of the parents’ nationality. The
government states that in case the birth registration of the immigrant children cannot be
processed at the embassy of the parents’ nationality, immigrant children may submit the birth
certificate to apply for alien registration, however, this does not prove children’s existence.
Therefore, it is practically impossible to register the birth of their children for the immigrant
parents, as well as the refugees, asylum seekers, and residence permit holders who are
hesitant to visit the embassies of their nationality for the fear of persecution.
2) Questions
203. What is the government’s plan to enable birth registration for the children of immigrant
parents, as well as the refugees, asylum seekers, and residence permit holders who have
difficulties to visit the embassies of their nationality?
Issue 55. Support for Refugee Children
1) Current status