In enforcement proceedings, what may be ordered when papers are served or notified abroad, and what may follow if no report is made in time?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
In this exercise's file we read the paper that served or notified abroad and the date it went out, any order requiring a report made along with it, and any report naming a place and a person to receive within the Republic of Korea with the date it was filed.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading takes the provision as giving a choice: in enforcement proceedings, where service or notice goes abroad, the order may direct that, along with the service or notice, a place and a person to receive service or notice within the Republic of Korea be designated and reported within a reasonable period, and if nothing is reported within that period, service or notice afterwards need not be made.
Another reading marks what the provision does not say: it does not name who gives the order or lengthen any fixed period, so the file must show who ordered the report and what period was set, and the words 'need not be made' leave later service or notice discretionary rather than automatically barred.
Your judgment
If a report arrives after the period set, how could the file show whether the period had run before that report was filed?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We look at this again if the provision is amended to name who issues the order or to set the period, or if a decision explains whether service or notice after an unreported period is barred or merely optional.