Sex Offender Personal Info to Be Notified via 'Gukmin Biseo' Starting Next Month

The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family announced that, starting next month, personal information of sex offenders will also be notified through the Ministry of the Interior and Safety's "Gukmin Biseo" (Public Service Secretary) platform.

The Ministry plans to inspect system stability through a pilot operation in a single administrativedong (neighborhood) starting tomorrow (the 10th) before expanding the service next month.

Personal information of sex offenders is notified approximately 6.5 million times a year to householders and others protecting children and adolescents under the age of 19 in the areas where sex offenders reside.

Notifications of sex offender personal information began via mail in 2011 and expanded to mobile platforms in 2020.

Currently, individuals can receive sex offender personal information through KakaoTalk and Naver electronic documents.

However, as cases of mistaking notification messages for spam and failing to open them have continued, the reading rate stood at 49% as of last year, falling short of half.

(Photo provided by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, Yonhap News)
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