I registered a woman as a man and still "cannot edit"...Why?

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Yesterday, we exclusively reported on the bizarre case of a woman who has lived as a woman for 28 years and was registered as a "male."

It seems like an obvious administrative error, but the burden of correcting it is on the individual to do so.

Why is this happening? So Young Lee reports.

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<Mr. Kim Moe / Gwangjin-gu, Seoul> "I've been living as a woman all my life, but now I'm a man, and it's crazy to go around looking for things..."

Mr. Kim Moe, 28, who was born a woman and received a resident registration number starting with 2, is listed as "male" in the family relationship register.

<Gangdong District Office Official> "The administrative agency can't do it. The law says that you have to get permission from the court to correct the register. I really want to fix it, but I don't have the evidence..."

Under the current law, if a mistake in the register is obvious, the administrative office can correct it ex officio, but because of the possibility of abuse, it is limited to cases with supporting documents such as birth certificates.

Mr. Kim's birth certificate has already been discarded after the storage period, which is absurd, but he has no choice but to go through the legal process himself.

<Attorney Kim Tae-young/Law Firm Hanbyul> "Due to the legal significance of the Family Relationship Register, it is required to be corrected through a court trial unless there are clearly relevant documents. Therefore, in the current situation, we have no choice but to seek the court's permission to correct it."

In the end, Kim underwent a genetic test that cost more than 100,000 won to prepare her case, and is investing her personal time to prepare the correction application.

YouTube TV's Lee So-young

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