'National Overseas Certification' begins a non-face-to-face identification pilot service...Resolving digital services alienation

[Anchor]
The Overseas Koreans' Office has launched a pilot service to issue overseas national certificates to enhance the digital convenience of overseas Koreans staying abroad.

Overseas Koreans will be able to download certificates from Shinhan Bank and Viva Republica apps starting with the pilot service today (28th), and Kookmin Bank, Woori Bank and Hana Bank will be able to issue certificates within this year.

An official from the Overseas Korean Office explained that it has developed a digital certificate issuance service to solve the problem of alienation of overseas Koreans from domestic digital services and minimize unnecessary social costs for overseas Koreans.

Our compatriots living abroad have experienced great inconvenience, such as having to visit long-distance overseas missions and open domestic mobile phones to use domestic online services.

Lee Sang-deok, head of the Overseas Koreans Agency, said he has developed a non-face-to-face identification system using electronic passports and overseas stay information for the first time in the world and will continue to expand digital civil service services that overseas Koreans can feel.

Let's hear the explanation of Lee Sang-deok, head of the Overseas Koreans Agency.

[Lee Sang-deok / Director of Overseas Koreans]
Even when overseas Koreans are abroad, they cannot authenticate themselves without a mobile phone used in Korea. Now, this certificate service has the advantage of being able to easily use domestic online services overseas through a prescribed process even if they do not have a domestic mobile phone. Overseas Koreans have a good response to this service, and this time it is a pilot service, but if it is properly activated, I think it will be a good opportunity for overseas Koreans to feel the meaning of the launch of the Overseas Koreans' Office.

The Overseas Koreans' Office signed a business agreement with the Korea Communications Commission, the Ministry of Science and ICT, and the Digital Platform Government Committee in March to develop a non-face-to-face identification system for overseas Koreans based on electronic passports through continuous working-level consultations and business presentations.

The Overseas Korean Administration said that when the official certification center service begins next year, various online services in Korea such as e-government services, e-financial services, non-face-to-face medical services, online education services, and online shopping can be used more easily and conveniently through certificates.