1. The plaintiff's claim is dismissed.

2. The costs of lawsuit shall be borne by the Plaintiff.

Details of the disposition

On April 27, 2000, the Plaintiff is a congenital dual nationality holder who has born between father B and mother C of Japanese nationality on April 27, 200 and both the Republic of Korea and Japan.

On March 6, 2018, the Plaintiff left the Republic of Korea in Japan, and filed an application with the Defendant for permission to renounce the nationality of the Republic of Korea under Article 14 of the Nationality Act (hereinafter “instant application”).

On June 4, 2018, the defendant rejected the plaintiff's application on the ground that "the report of renunciation of nationality under Article 14 of the Nationality Act is permitted only when the plaintiff has an address in a foreign country, and the plaintiff's entry and departure records, submission documents, etc. are considered to have a living ground in the Republic of Korea."

(2) The Plaintiff’s assertion as to the legitimacy of the instant disposition is justifiable, while the Plaintiff resided in Korea for the purpose of treating symptoms of depression. However, the Plaintiff graduated from the D middle school (hereinafter “D middle school”) while residing in the North Sea of Japan outside of the Plaintiff from March 2014 to September 2017, while residing in the North Sea of Japan outside of the Plaintiff, and entered the E high school (hereinafter “E high school”).

The disposition of this case, which was issued on the premise that there is no address in a foreign country, was unlawful, because it was prepared to enter a foreign college with the present domicile in the North Sea F (F).

It shall be as shown in the attached Form of the relevant statutes.

Judgment

Article 14(1) of the Nationality Act provides that "a person with multiple nationality who intends to choose a foreign nationality may report to the defendant that he/she will renounce the Korean nationality through the head of a diplomatic mission abroad having jurisdiction over his/her domicile only when he/she has an address in a foreign country.