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[SEOUL, 25 December 2007] - Students in South Korea will learn about the new family registration system, copyright laws and climate change at schools starting from next year, following the release of a new syllabus about new systems and changes in society.
The education authority said on Tuesday that it would soon provide the syllabus on nine issues to elementary, middle and high schools and regional educational offices nationwide to complement current textbooks. "We designed the material so that students can learn changing systems of the state and new trends in society,'' an official at the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development said. The curriculum will introduce the new family registration system. The revised Civil Law, which will take effect from 1 January 2008, will abolish the current "hojuje,'' a patriarchal family registration system, and replace it with a more gender-equal system. "Hojuje'' stipulates that all family members must be registered under "hoju,'' which refers to a male family head. Now people will have their own individual registration, under which their parents, spouses and children will be registered. The new law will also allow a child to adopt his or her mother's family name based on mutual consent from both parents. So far, children took only the father's family name. Also, if a woman remarries, her children can take their stepfather's surname with the court's approval, while so far they have had to keep their birthfather's one. Further information
pdf: http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2007/12/113_16143.htmlhttp:/...Association: The Korea Times