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Ethnic Chinese people in Korea will be allowed to take Korean names starting in August. They will be issued with new alien registration cards which will carry both their English and Korean names. The measure aims to help ethnic Chinese people carry out real estate and financial transactions more easily.
So far, the alien registration cards of ethnic Chinese show only their English names, making it necessary for them to submit separate notarized documents of their Korean names for real estate and financial transactions. The Justice Ministry said from Aug. 1, it will issue alien registration cards to ethnic Chinese people with F-5 and F-2 visas to reduce the inconvenience they experience while living here. Some 20,000 ethnic Chinese are estimated to live in Korea. Of them, 5,000 do not have Korean names since they registered as foreign residents after Oct. 22, 1998. They will be able to apply for a Korean name with their passports and alien registration cards at regional immigration offices.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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