SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Efforts are underway to enable South Koreans to conveniently verify their identities through smartphones. The country will begin the ID card mobile verification service on a trial basis in April, with the formal service scheduled to launch through the Government24 public service app in the first half of this year and [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Beginning next year, South Koreans will be able to conveniently confirm their identities through smartphones, thanks to the planned introduction of an ID card mobile verification service, the government said Wednesday. The Ministry of the Interior and Safety said it will build the resident registration card mobile verification service [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The word ‘alien’ will be removed from the registration cards issued to all foreigners residing in South Korea. The use of the term has been under constant criticism since ‘alien’ may also mean ‘extraterrestrial’ or ‘stranger’ in exclusionary terms. The Ministry of Justice announced Monday that it will select [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean government has finally had enough of the three major mobile carriers’ habitual practice of collecting fingerprint information by scanning the back of customers’ ID cards as an identity verification measure. Fingerprint information is found on the back of all Korean ID cards, and the total number of [...]