Annual Report 2013 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, 44 ▪▪▪ Part II. Major Activities of the Commission