Four is my lucky number.

So I'm going over my stuff, and I see my passports, and whenever I see them, I always think about of my goal of acquiring my quadruple citizenship. Reason being that quadruple citizenship allows more freedom of travel and residency. Also depending on which country, it affords a better protection over the other. But the Korean passport is a pain. It's so hard to maintain.

Main reason is that a lot of Koreans get away from military draft by acquiring a foreign citizenship. At first, it was not very strict because not many people could afford to leave the country or much less acquire residency and eventually citizenship abroad. Now a lot of Koreans can do that... Those guys running from the draft screwed up for a World Citizen like myself. I have no problem with people actually moving abroad with the intent of actually living abroad, and not to run away from draft. Granted South Korean military service sucks because its mandatory 2 years. I mean hell, if your intent is to live your life in Korea, then act like one. Hell, I became US citizen because I want to live in US and act like it's citizen. I wanted to be part of the American empire where I could travel abroad and act all arrogant, have total disregard for the local culture, slap my US passport at the local authorities face, and demand for my US consular services when I get in trouble.

Well bottom line is that Korea has laws that if you cannot prove current residency abroad, then they will draft you to military, or if you get in with foreign passport, you have to prove that you have renounced your Korean citizenship and had your name removed from the Korean Family Census Register (People born in different country, which has Korean parents, probably have their names in the Korean Family Census Register).

There were cases where a US Citizens, born and raised in US traveled with US passport (did not have a Korean passport) to Korea as tourists, but they were immediately drafted into the military upon arrival. Why? Because their parents where Korean, so their parents put their names into the Korean Family Census Register...

Now, I'm not only a passport holder, but I actually do have residency outside Korea. So I get this speciol "stamp" on my passport exempting me from serving the military for as long as I live abroad. When my brother went to Korea after 18 years of age, he had to get not only the standard immigration entry and exit stamps, but also another set from the military located in the airport.

I don't know, but its scares me. Imagine I go there for travel, and suddenly they start drafting all Korean citizens regardles of their residency or multiple citizenship?

So right now I'm looking to get married to a women from Europe. I would give preference to British, but, any other country in the EU is fine. :P Then we would have our kids in like, maybe Australia, our son would have quintuple citizenship. Now imagine two quintuple citizens getting married?