Birth certificate
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This is a document written by the doctor or midwife who delivered the baby. You attach it to the birth report. It is issued by the very hospital where the baby was born, so you cannot get it from another hospital.
📌 Key points
If the baby was born in a hospital, you receive it when you are discharged. If you did not receive it, or you lost it, please ask the hospital's administration office again. If the baby was born outside a hospital, there is another way — a document proving the fact of birth, written by the person who helped with the delivery, can take its place. If you have neither, there is a way to report the birth after receiving confirmation from the Family Court, so please ask first at the reporting counter or at 1345.
📍 Where to go and get it in person
You receive it at the very hospital or midwife clinic where the baby was born
Basis
- 가족관계의 등록 등에 관한 법률 제44조(출생신고의 기재사항) 제4항 (법제처 국가법령정보센터 — 현행 시행 2026-10-02 판으로 2026-10-05 대조 · 2026 개정은 제14조뿐, 이 조문 그대로)
This content was checked on 2026-10-03.