South Korean identity card

[1] This card contains a unique Resident registration number (Korean: 주민등록번호; Hanja: 住民登錄番號; RR: jumin deungnok beonho; MR: chumin tŭngnok pŏnho).

Joseon Dynasty, which had a centralized national government, it was necessary to have an ID card for all people to effectively maintain the class system, After that The Korea Empire which succeeded Joseon Dynasty made the first modern ID cards.

Then in 1968, after the ‘Kim Shin -jo incident’, when North Korean special forces stormed The Blue House, it amended the Social Security Act because Spy identifies were given a number to each citizen.

14 of the Residents Registration Law)[3] There is a Taegeuk(태극) shape on the left, and an image of a globe showing the Pacific Rim in the bottom center.

[1] The person who aged 17-years-old must proposes of ID card issued to Act, mayor, Supervisor.

28 of the Residents Registration Law) If it lost or damaged, the name or date of birth or gender changed, insufficient of ID card entry column, difficult of identification by changed the face or etc., that time replacement of ID card.

Usually more than 60% get the description from the financial institutions are using this ID card, and it is also used on ARS or Online Applications amounts to about 10 million per day.

Actually, most developed countries, such as the United States and Japan, don't print fingerprints on ID cards for their citizens unlike South Korea.