Vietnam War Veterans

A person discharged from actual service, retired from military service after serving as a military personnel, or a civilian military employee under the Military Service Act, the Military Personnel Management Act, the Act on the Management of Civilian Personnel in the Military Service, or a war correspondent who covered combats and military operations with approval from the Government, in an area where defoliants that contain dioxin had been sprayed in Vietnam during a period between July 18, 1964 and March 23, 1973 and who suffers from a disease specified under Article 5 of the Act on Assistance to Patients Suffering from Actual or Potential Aftereffects of Defoliants and Establishment of Related Organizations

Veterans Serving at the Front in Korea

A person discharged from actual service, retired from military service after serving or participating in areas that defoliants were sprayed as a military personnel, or a civilian military employee under the Military Service Act, the Military Personnel Management Act, or the Act on the Management of Civilian Personnel in the Military Service in an area adjoining the Southern Limit Line of the Demilitarized Zone of the Republic of Korea which is designated by Ordinance of the Ministry of National Defense during a period between October 9, 1967 and January 31, 1972 and who suffers from a disease specified under Article 5

A child who was conceived and born during the above-mentioned service periods and suffers from any disease specified in each subparagraph of Article 5(6) of that Act; among children of a person determined to be and registered as an applicable person due to a disease specified in each subparagraph of Article 5(1) of that Act pursuant to Articles 4 and 7 of that Act; or children of a deceased person recognized as a patient suffering from actual aftereffects of defoliants pursuant to Article 8 of that Act

Of persons who died of a disease specified under Article 5(1) of that Act:

• Bereaved family members of a person who died before this Act enters into force (January 1, 1998)
• Bereaved family members of a person who died after the registration application is filed
• Or bereaved family members of a person who is diagnosed as a patient suffering from actual or potential aftereffects of defoliants during the medical treatment under Article 7 of that Act

Persons who are diagnosed with severe/moderate/mild degrees of the aftereffects of defoliants are eligible for medical expenses fully covered by the government; however, their families are excluded from the reduction.