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As about 50 thousand students drop out of school every year, support for them to continue study and enter society by linking with public support system even after they give up studies, but it has been regulated to like with ‘Out-of-school Youth Support Center’(hereinafter ‘Support Center’) only for those who agreed with provision of personal information so far, and by the demand for improvement of low rate of like, the 「Act on Support for Out-of-school Youth」(hereinafter the ‘Act on Out-of-school Youth’) was revised on March 23, 2021 and started to take effect from September 24, 2021, enabling link to support center without advance consent in case youths subject to compulsory education leave school. However, like on information of high school students who are not subject to compulsory education is allowed only in case they agree with provision of personal information, and according to 2021 Basic Education Statistics, high school students take 45.1% out of all dropouts, which is the highest percentage as compared with elementary and middle school students, and many students out of dropouts are still in blind spot, so improvement of the situation is considered necessary. Especially, all men have the right to receive education equally in accordance with Article 31 of the Constitution, and as free education to high school expanded with revision of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act on December 3, 2019, which provides a fair chance of education to every citizen through strengthened publicness of elementary, middle and higher education. Therefore, it is necessary to support youths who want to continue keep on studies or hope to get a job or career searching after giving up high school for preventing social gap caused by educational gap and enable them to realize minimum right to education by linking quickly and assuring rights and opportunities to receive adequate education within the public support system for youths in high school level and grow as a healthy member of society. According to the necessity of research, this manuscript aims to prepare a plan for revision of law for strengthening like of information of out-of-school youth by generating validity and effectiveness of law revision that establishes a legal basis to link with support centers without their consent in case it is unable to confirm consent of youth or parents at the level of high school for smooth link of information of out-of-school youth eligible for free education.