49 Child Support Debt Defaulters Barred from Leaving Country and Have Driver's Licenses Suspended

22 More Than 27 in the Second Half of Last Year
Full Payment of Child Support Debt, Cases of Driving License Suspension Withdrawal
From August, Departure Ban Threshold Reduced from 50 Million to 30 Million Won

Forty-nine individuals who deliberately failed to pay child support will face public disclosure of their names, travel bans, and driver's license suspensions.

On the 17th, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family announced that at the 25th Child Support Enforcement Deliberation Committee meeting, it requested the relevant agencies to publicly disclose the names of 2 individuals on the Ministry's website, impose travel bans on 17 individuals, and suspend the driver's licenses of 30 individuals who failed to pay child support.

Starting in August, the threshold for requesting travel bans on willful child support defaulters will be lowered from 50 million KRW to 30 million KRW. Travel bans can also be requested if child support has not been paid for more than three months following a court order for detention due to non-payment of debt.

Name disclosure, license suspension, and travel bans are applied when a detention order from the court is not complied with, and decisions are made through deliberation and resolution by the Child Support Enforcement Deliberation Committee. Those who need to maintain their livelihood are exempt from driver's license suspension, and individuals who have paid more than half of their debt and have submitted a payment plan are excluded from name disclosure.

Cases of paying child support after sanctions have also increased. After the sanctions were implemented, Person A paid the full child support debt of 15.5 million KRW, resulting in the withdrawal of the driver's license suspension. Person B, who owed 54 million KRW and was subject to a travel ban request, paid 9 million KRW to the creditor first and expressed willingness to make regular payments, leading the creditor to withdraw the travel ban request.

Among those who received driver's license suspensions, 3 out of 4 livelihood drivers paid a certain amount first and expressed willingness to make regular payments in the future, resulting in the creditor withdrawing the license suspension.

Minister Kim Hyun-sook of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family stated, "Over the past year, we have focused on establishing the child support sanction system and raising public awareness, and the effects of child support enforcement are gradually appearing. We plan to analyze the effects of enforcement after the sanctions and improve the system to further enhance the effectiveness of sanctions against willful child support non-payers."

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