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and attaches the notice on the door of the addressee. In such a case, the
notification shall be deemed to be made after 15 days following the
attachment of the notice on the door or submit of the notice paper to
the relevant people.
According to Article 30, if both the addressee and the people who
may be served in place of the addressee are not present at the address,
then civil process server shall investigate the reason of such absence
from the neighbor, housekeeper, apartment building manager,
autonomous, police chief or officer of that place, and shall write their
statement on the notice paper and receive their signature, if they refrain
from signing the notice paper, then the civil process server shall also
write this issue on the notice paper and sign the notice paper. If the
addressee is dead or moved from that address constantly and his new
address is not determined, then the notice paper shall be returned to the
authority who issued the notice paper. If a new address is found out by
the civil process server and the address is within the boundaries of the
allocation region of the civil process server, then the process server
shall make the notification to such address. If the new address is not
within the allocation region of the process server, then the civil process
server shall return the notice paper to the center, which the address is
connected to.
According to Article 31, the civil process server shall serve the
notice paper to autonomous, police chief or officer against signature if
one of the following condition occurs (i) the addressee or the person
who may be served in place of the addressee is not found at the
address, (ii) the addressee or the person who may be served in place of
the addressee refrain from receiving the notice paper, (iii) despite the
fact that the addressee did not live at that address or left the address
constantly, the notice paper has been sent to the address of the
addressee which is registered at the address registry system. Process
server attaches the notice on the addressee’s door and informs the
neighbor, housekeeper, apartment building manager. The notice is
deemed to be made on the date which the notice is attached on the door.
Article 34 regulates the case where the person who will be served
in place of the addressee shall not be apparently below 18 and shall
have capacity to legal liability. Also, the notification shall not be made
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