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The National Basic Livelihood Security System in Korea has played a role as the fundamental social safety net by meeting the basic needs of all Korean people. Especially of the criteria for a support obligator which has been accused of creating a blind spot of the system since the initial stage. The current criteria still shows many barriers despite such efforts. For example, some people in need are excluded from the list of subsidy recipients because of existence of a wrong support obligator who does not actually support their family while so-called Regarded Support of the system make it even harder for some recipients to manage livelihood. As a result, first, when avoiding and rejecting family support, the detailed criteria must be indicated, secondly for the lawsuit regarding social welfare, the special legal process or the Social Community must be formed and lastly, the principle and regulation on the family support obligation must be revised in a long-term.