Good evening, everyone!
I'm appreciate your attendance. It is the 2nd time for me to stand here. Nice to see you! May I start?
I'm not sure exactly when foreigners have been increasing steadily, it is true there are lots of foreigners in Korea. Some of them married Korean and wanted to be Korean. Some of them just wanted to acquire citizenship. So, what do they do? They need to belong in Korea. They need to be naturalized in Korea to be real Korean. Yes, I'll introduce that naturalization.
According to dictionary, if the government of a country allow a person who was not born in that country to become a citizen of it. In short, a person transfer own nationality to another country
As far as I visit a homepage of Ministry of Justice, there are three sorts of naturalization. One is 일반귀화, another is 간이귀화, the other is 특별귀화. I couldn't find them in Korean, so I'll use Korean for sorts only. If they want to do 일반귀화, they need to satisfy 5 conditions. First, they have stayed in Korea more than 5 years.(It is a common rule in the world.) Second, they are over 20 years old by the Korea civil low. Third, they are well-conducted. Fourth, they are enough to keep living. Fifth, they understand Korean and Korean culture. (There is a funny means to know fourth thing. 'They have a bank account of more than 30million won.' Isn't it interesting?) If they'd like to do 간이귀화, they need to satisfy alike 5 conditions. First, they have stayed in Korea more than 3 years. If their marriage partners are Korean, it is a year shorter than what I mentioned before. In a word, they have stayed in Korea more than 2 years. Others are same with 일반귀화. If they'd love to do 특별귀화, they need to satisfy 3 conditions. First, they have Korean address where they are. Second, they are well-conducted. Third, they understand Korean and Korean culture. In case of 특별귀화, it doesn't care about a term, age and living. If they satisfy those conditions, they can approach the Naturalization.
It's not the end! They are required to take a written examination and an oral test. Here, they could be in a pickle because all of questions were not easy. For all I know, they need knowledge of primary school-grade. I'll show you one example. "Why did Goryeo move capital to Pyeongyang?" I don't guess all primary school students know that. I'm not sure examinee do know it. The degree of difficulty is vague and odd. I heard there were not many successful applicants as MOJ expected.
Maybe, those limitations could be good for Korea, especially about what is called a homogeneous nation. However, I think that fussy conditions cause bad things more than good things. First, some seniors told us about the mixed-blood. Korean don't feel at ease to foreigners yet. From that, discrimination against the mixed-blood is caused. Second, we could be isolated from the world. I was told that no nation was not exclusive than Korea in the world because of full-blooded Korean. That will make Korea and Korean worse. Third, we could lose a lot of diamonds, talented people. Those problems are serious, I think.
I hope that the limitations are looser. For instance, they need to know one country's economic than history like America. I hope that the government lead naturalization to good points. For instance, They denizen people if they are advantaged like Singapore.
We need to think about naturalization once again.
That's all. I'd like to say thank you.