Korea’s New Electronic Passport Without Resident Registration Number in 2020

The Amendment to the Korean Passport Act introduces a new Korean Electronic Passport. The passport excludes the Resident Registration Number and establishes a new system in order to ease administrative work of the government. This Amendment shall become effective in 2020. The Passport Act of the Republic of Korea According to Art. 7 Passport Act every Korean passport shall include: Type of passport; Issuing state; Passport number; Date of issuance and expiration; Issuing authority; Name of the passport-holder; Nationality of

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Revision to the Laws & Regulations on Ecosystem-Disturbing Species in the Republic of Korea in 2019

In order to increase the control on certain species like ‘ecosystem-disturbing species’, which are considered to be harmful to the ecosystem of the Republic of Korea, when it is planned to import and introduce them to the ecological environment of Korea, the Chairman of the Environment and Labor Committee proposed the Amendment to the Korean Act on the Conservation and Use of Biological Diversity (hereinafter as “Act on Biological Diversity”) on September 20, 2018. The new provisions of the Amendment

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