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  "id": 3698959,
  "title": "Constitutional Court rules Seoul's lack of birth registration regulations for foreigners unconstitutional",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/constitutional-court-rules-seouls-lack-of-birth-registration-3698959",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-27T08:02:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Korea Times",
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    "url": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/20260827/constitutional-court-rules-seouls-lack-of-birth-registration-regulations-for-foreigners-unconstitutional"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The Constitutional Court of South Korea has ruled that the country's absence of legal provisions for registering the births of foreign nationals born in the nation is unconstitutional. This unanimous decision came after an undocumented Vietnamese national filed a petition in 2022, following the birth of his child in Korea in 2019. The child could not be immediately registered locally due to the lack of registration rules and the undocumented status of both parents. The court emphasized that nationality should not be a factor in guaranteeing the right to birth registration.",
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        "outlet": "Yonhap News",
        "title": "Constitutional Court rules Seoul's lack of birth registration regulations for foreigners unconstitutional",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/constitutional-court-rules-seouls-lack-of-birth-registration",
        "published": "2026-08-27T07:23:08.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "The Korea Times",
        "title": "Constitutional Court rules Seoul's lack of birth registration regulations for foreigners unconstitutional",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/constitutional-court-rules-seouls-lack-of-birth-registration-3697503",
        "published": "2026-08-27T07:57:02.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}