한국의 정주 외국인 주민 참정권 제도 = Studies on the Constitutional voting rights for foreigners in South Korea

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

the number of foreign residents staying in Korea has been increasing since 2000. However, the nation's public perception continues to debate whether foreigners should be granted the same rights as Koreans, and how many rights if they do. Looking at the cases of granting immigration rights in countries around the world, I think that Korea should also be given the right to vote for long-term resident foreigners. Therefore, this study aims to examine ways to guarantee political rights for foreigners staying in settlement and increase the turnout of local elections granted in Korea.
In Korea, with the revision of the Public Official Election Act in 2005, foreign residents were given the right to vote from the 2006 local elections. Until now, the number of electors of permanent foreign residents in previous local elections has steadily increased, but the turnout is gradually decreasing.
In order to increase the turnout of permanent foreigners in local elections, regulations should be prepared within the Public Official Election Act to provide foreign language translation services for voting notices, ballot papers, and public information in local and by-elections. In addition, the National Election Commission currently believes that services that translate into four languages, English, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Japanese, need to be differentiated at the regional level. In particular, it is necessary to understand the current status of resident foreigners residing in the region and translate them into various languages, including Russian, so that the turnout can be increased.