A total of 166 parents who did not pay child support will face sanctions such as driver's license suspension, travel bans, and public disclosure of their names. Under the current Act on the Enforcement of Child Support Payment, sanctions may be imposed on people who, after being ordered in a family suit to pay a lump sum, fail to fulfill the obligation for more than 30 days, or who, after being ordered to pay child support, failed to pay three or more times or accrued more than 30 million won in unpaid amounts.
The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family said on the 21st that it convened the 51st Child Support Enforcement Review Committee on the 8th–9th and approved a total of 184 sanctions against 166 people who failed to fulfill their child support debt. The sanctions include 120 travel bans, 41 driver's license suspensions, and 23 public disclosures.
Among those sanctioned, the largest child support debt was about 192 million won, and the average child support debt was about 45 million won.
Newly disclosed names will be posted on the websites of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and the Child Support Agency starting on the 19th of this month.
Sanctions against people who fail to fulfill their child support debt have been increasing since they took effect in 2021. The number of sanctions rose from 27 in the second half of 2021 to 359 in 2022, 639 in 2023, 947 in 2024, and 1,389 last year. In the first half of this year, 720 sanctions were approved.