Who must act, and in what order, when a person acquires Korean nationality through acknowledgement?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
In a family relation registration file of this kind, we read the record showing that the person acquired nationality under one of the two grounds the provision names, the record of the registration standard place that person designated, the notification received from the Ministry of Justice, and the register the head of the city, town or township then made.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading takes the chain of actors as the provision sets it: where a person has acquired Republic of Korea nationality under one of the two Nationality Act grounds the provision names, the Minister of Justice must notify the head of the city, town or township of the registration standard place the person has designated, without delay and stating the matters a Supreme Court rule prescribes, and that head then makes the person's register.
Another reading stresses how the duty is triggered: the Minister's notification duty arises only on the acquisition of nationality under the two Nationality Act grounds the provision names, and the register rests on that notification rather than on any application by the person, while the provision leaves open who verifies the designated registration standard place or what follows if the notification is late or never arrives.
Your judgment
If the notification reaches the head of the city, town or township but the registration standard place is disputed, what in the file could show where the register belongs?
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 further grounds of acquisition or to put a duty on the person, or if a Supreme Court rule changes the matters the notification must state.