a korean man was ordered to pay child support in a landmark south korean court ruling involving a kopino child that happened on june 22, 2014. the south korean government paid 10,000,000 won to get the dna of the two kopino sons tested, and the south korean court forced the korean man under threat of legal penalties to get his dna tested too. a 2016 article in the korea times said that after being found to be the father, the south korean court ruled that the korean man had to pay 300,000 won every month as child support. a 2014 article in yonhap said that the lawyer for the filipino mother in this case said that the filipino mother wanted her kopino sons to be raised in south korea, and the lawyer said that the filipino mother wanted her kopino sons to be added to the official family register of their korean father.