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The following contents will primarily indicate sexual violence and sex trafficking laws. Discussions will concern the scope and penalties of sex crimes, measures against sex crimes, protective measures and support for victims, and preventing sex crimes and their recurrence.

This document provides easy-to-find and easy-to-understand essential legal information focusing on victims of domestic violence to allow them to learn how to respond to domestic violence and where to find help to appropriately deal with the issue and recover from the trauma caused by domestic violence.

If no settlement is reached with the assailant, victims involved in violence or injury cases may receive payment for treatment and compensation by filing a civil procedure. Then, he/she may claim compensation for physical damages and medical treatment at the criminal trial proceedings. The contents below provide beneficial legal information for victims and assailants involved in cases of violence and injury.

The national health insurance refers to a social insurance that aims to promote the stability of the life of people by distributing the burden of medical costs among all subscribers through compulsory subscription. All subscribers other than employee insured and their dependents are classified as self-employed insured. All foreign nationals and overseas Korean nationals who stay in Korea for six months or longer will also be obligated to subscribe to health insurance as self-employed insured from July 16, 2019, and they will be offered equal benefits as the citizens of the Republic of Korea.

While the range of overseas Koreans varies depending on the legislative purpose of individual laws, in general Korean nationals living abroad and ethnic Koreans of foreign nationality are included. In this document, a distinction is made between Koreans nationals living abroad and ethnic Koreans of foreign nationality, and useful legal information on subjects such as nationality, departure/entry, and domestic activities is provided.

National health insurance is aimed at the benefit of society as a whole as it is imposed as mandatory on everyone to disperse the cost of medical care among all those insured. Workers and employers of a business, public workers, and teachers become insured through their employers.

This content provides information on the requirements of employer-sponsored insurance, the range of insurance coverage, e.g. medical expenses, pregnancy/childbirth, etc., and the calculation and payment of health insurance premiums. In addition, general legal information related to national health insurance, including how to resolve insurance premium disputes, is provided.

Infectious disease means any infectious disease classified in Group 1 infectious diseases, Group 2 infectious diseases, Group 3 infectious diseases, Group 4 infectious diseases, Group 5 infectious diseases, designated infectious diseases, infectious diseases under surveillance by the World Health Organization, infectious diseases spread through bioterrorism, sexually transmitted infectious diseases, zoonoses, and nosocomial infectious diseases

The practice of washing hands the right way and cough etiquette is the most basic means of preventing the spread of infectious diseases, preventing about 50-70% of infectious diseases

A Single-parent family means either a mother-and-child family or father-and-child family. Under the Single-parent Family Support Act, the Child (generally younger than age 18 or younger than age 22 if enrolled in school) support program is provided to the extent to which it is not duplicated with other social welfare benefits under other laws such as the National Basic Living Security Act to the mother or father who lost their spouse due to divorce, death, or going missing without verification of life or death, or whose spouse cannot work for a long time due to mental or physical disabilities.

Single-parent families are entitled to welfare benefits in the amount corresponding to the base median income, family income, and the wealth level of the beneficiary. In addition, Single-parent families are entitled to other additional support programs such as welfare loans for accelerating self-support, first priority right to buy or rent a certain assigned portion of national housing, and accommodations at Single-parent Family supporting facilities.

A multicultural family means a family composed of an immigrant by marriage, a person who obtained permission for naturalization, or people who have acquired nationality of the Republic of Korea from the time of birth. Multicultural family members who raise children born in de facto marital relationships with a citizen of the Republic of Korea may also receive supports pursuant to 「the Multicultural Families Support Act」. A foreigner who has not ever acquired nationality of the Republic of Korea may acquire nationality of the Republic of Korea by obtaining permission for naturalization from the Minister of Justice. Naturalizations shall consist of general naturalization, simplified naturalization, and special naturalization. A foreigner who has reported a marriage with a Korean-national spouse may acquire nationality of the Republic of Korea more easily through simplified naturalization.

An international marriage is a marriage between two people of different nationalities.

In order for an international marriage to be valid in the Republic of Korea, the parties to a marriage shall meet the marriage conditions prescribed by the laws of their own countries respectively and report their marriage to an administrative agency so that their marital status is registered on the family relation register.

If a foreigner marries a national of the Republic of Korea and resides in the Republic of Korea, he/she is granted the status as the spouse of a national of the Republic of Korea. Therefore, he/she may change his/her preexisting status of sojourn to the Residence (F-2) visa which is issued to spouses of Korean nationals.

In addition, a foreigner who has married a national of the Republic of Korea

may attain the nationality of the Republic of Korea through naturalization, as prescribed by the Nationality Act. In case his/her spouse dies during the marriage, he/she may inherit the property of his/her spouse according to the order of inheritance, as prescribed by the Civil Act of the Republic of Korea.