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women’s rights in South Korea

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    In South Korea: Economic and social developments

    …new family register system (hojeok) that took effect in 2008. Under the old system only men could register as family heads; thus, children were legally part of the father’s family register, not the mother’s. The new system increased women’s legal standing in, among other things, divorce and child-custody cases.…

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