Feeling a bit of regret over keeping my citizenship Hey…
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Feeling a bit of regret over keeping my citizenship
Hey Everyone,
I'm 17 and I currently have dual citizenship with Australia and South Korea. I turn 18 this year and the deadline for renouncing my Korean citizenship is gone and I'm feeling a bit torn/weird about it. There was another post on here recently about another guy who was wondering if renouncing his citizenship was the right choice and all the comments were saying that there was no point in doing military and it's a waste of his time and it kinda threw me off.
My Korean isn't great but I was thinking of doing a language course for a few months before going, but now I'm wondering if not giving it up was the right decision at all, considering I don't look Korean, can't speak it well and have never lived there for a long time. The main reasons I had for keeping my status were my extended family on my dad's side living there that encouraged me to go, plus my Dad said it would mean a lot to the whole Korean side of the family, land inheritance that I'll be getting from my Korean grandma and the fact I wanna be closer to part of my culture.
I could definitely see myself living/studying over there, but I don't know if that really constitutes me doing military service.
I do think I got a little lucky though because I have second generation Korean citizen status, which means that i can stay in Korea for up to a total of 3 years between 18 to 37 as a normal citizen. So in that sense I have little bit of wiggle room for making decisions and stuff.
I don't really know what I'm looking for honestly so any thoughts or reassurance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks everyone.
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Hey Everyone,
I'm 17 and I currently have dual citizenship with Australia and South Korea. I turn 18 this year and the deadline for renouncing my Korean citizenship is gone and I'm feeling a bit torn/weird about it. There was another post on here recently about another guy who was wondering if renouncing his citizenship was the right choice and all the comments were saying that there was no point in doing military and it's a waste of his time and it kinda threw me off.
My Korean isn't great but I was thinking of doing a language course for a few months before going, but now I'm wondering if not giving it up was the right decision at all, considering I don't look Korean, can't speak it well and have never lived there for a long time. The main reasons I had for keeping my status were my extended family on my dad's side living there that encouraged me to go, plus my Dad said it would mean a lot to the whole Korean side of the family, land inheritance that I'll be getting from my Korean grandma and the fact I wanna be closer to part of my culture.
I could definitely see myself living/studying over there, but I don't know if that really constitutes me doing military service.
I do think I got a little lucky though because I have second generation Korean citizen status, which means that i can stay in Korea for up to a total of 3 years between 18 to 37 as a normal citizen. So in that sense I have little bit of wiggle room for making decisions and stuff.
I don't really know what I'm looking for honestly so any thoughts or reassurance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks everyone.
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