A Study on Improvement of the Real Resident Registration Card System in Korea

There are some opinions that criticize the system that compulsorily or compulsorily requires all citizens to be issued a resident registration card under Korea's resident registration law and ordinance as an unconstitutional system for violating the right to self-determination of personal information. However, the system is considered reasonable because it allows Korea to quickly and efficiently handle various administrative affairs such as national defense, security, taxation, and social welfare. Currently, various important and intimate personal information such as resident registration numbers, detailed addresses, and fingerprints are marked on the surface of Korea's real resident registration card, and compared to Germany and Japan's electronic real national ID cards, it is relatively easy to expose to others in a defenseless state so that they can be abused for various crimes. In the future, Korea needs to properly enact and revise related regulations in Korea's resident registration law and ordinance so that it can not be easily recognized from the outside after improving the electronic IC chip to install an electronic IC chip as in Germany and Japan's electronic real national ID cards. In the future, Korea's real resident registration card will be improved to embed or include various important and intimate personal identification numbers, addresses, fingerprints, and electronic signatures in the electronic IC chip after inserting an electronic IC chip, for example, like Germany. If the real resident registration card is needed offline or online, it will be automatically encrypted and transmitted to the relevant public institution or private sector to automatically input the necessary personal information embedded in the electronic IC chip. It is desirable to greatly enhance the convenience, safety, and efficiency of Korea's real resident registration card in the IT science and technology society so that individuals do not conveniently write down various personal information contained in the electronic IC chip of the real resident registration card.