Article 76: Any of the following persons and a person who made a third party commit an act falling under subparagraphs 7 through 11, shall be punished by an administrative fine not exceeding 30 million won...
Article 75-2: Money and goods, or other profits received by a person committing any offence referred to in Article 71 (1) 1 through 8, Article 72 (1) 2...
Article 75: If a representative of a corporation, or an agent, an employee, or other servant of the corporation commits a violation under Articles 71 through 73 or 74...
Article 74: Any of the following persons shall be punished by imprisonment with labor for up to one year or by a fine not exceeding 10 million won...
Article 73: Any of the following persons shall be punished by imprisonment with labor for not more than two years or by a fine not exceeding 20 million won...
Article 72: A person falling under any of the following subparagraphs shall be punished by imprisonment with labor for up to three years or by a fine not exceeding 30 million won:....
Article 70-2: A person who conveys or spread a malicious program in violation of Article 48 (2) shall be punished by imprisonment with labor of up to seven years or by fine not exceeding 70 million won....
Article 70-2: A person who conveys or spread a malicious program in violation of Article 48 (2) shall be punished by imprisonment with labor of up to seven years or by fine not exceeding 70 million won....
Article 70: A person who commits defamation of another person by disclosing a fact to the public through an information...
Article 69-2: In cases where an act falling under any subparagraph of Article 64-3 (1) is deemed existing...
Article 69: Executives and employees of the National Information Society Agency and the Internet and Security Agency...
Article 67: Chapter 4 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the cases where a person falling under subparagraph 3 (a) through (e) of Article 2, subparagraph 6, 9, 12 and 14 of the Broadcasting Act...
Article 66: A person who engages or engaged in a job related to any of the following business affairs shall not divulge to another person any secret that he/she has learned while performing his/her duties...
Article 65: The Minister of Science, ICT and Future Planning or the Korea Communications Commission may delegate or entrust part of his/her authority under this Act...
Article 64-4: The Minister of Science, ICT and Future Planning or the Korea Communications Commission shall hold a hearing in cases falling under any of the following subparagraphs...
Article 64-3: The Korea Communications Commission may impose, on a provider of information and communications services or similar...
Article 64-2: The Minister of Science, ICT and Future Planning or the Korea Communications Commission shall not...
Article 64: The Minister of Science, ICT and Future Planning or the Korea Communications Commission may require a provider of information...
Article 63: Any provider of information and communications services or similar shall not conclude an international contract with any term or condition in violation of this Act with respect to personal information of users...
Article 62: The Government shall maintain cooperate reciprocally with other nations or international organizations in carrying out the following affairs...
Article 61: The Minister of Science, ICT and Future Planning may order a provider of telecommunications billing services to deny, suspend...
Article 60: A provider of telecommunications billing services shall be liable for damages caused to a user of the telecommunications billing services while rendering the services...
Article 59: Every provider of telecommunications billing services may install and operate an institution or organization that voluntary resolves disputes to protect rights and interests of users...
Article 58: When the price for goods, etc. sold or provided must be paid, or a provider of telecommunications billing services charges the price therefor...
Article 57: Every provider of telecommunications billing services shall perform his/her duty to pay attention as a good manager so that telecommunications billing services may be provided in a safe manner...
Article 56: Every provider of telecommunications billing services shall prepare a standard contract form on telecommunications billing services and report it to the Minister of Science...
Article 55: Where a provider of telecommunications billing services makes a registration by fraud or other improper means, the Minister of Science, ICT and Future Planning shall revoke the registration...
Article 54: A person falling under any of the following subparagraphs shall be disqualified for the registration under Article 53:...
Article 53: The Government shall establish the Korea Internet and Security Agency...
Article 52: The Government shall establish the Korea Internet and Security Agency...
Article 51: The Government may have providers or users of information and communications services to take necessary measures...
Article 50-8: No one shall transmit any advertising information for goods or services prohibited by this Act or any other Act through an information and communications network....
Article 50-7: Where any person intends to post advertising information for profit on an Internet website, he/she shall obtain prior consent from the operator or the manager of an Internet website...
Article 50-6: The Korea Communications Commission may develop and distribute software or computer programs designed for addressees to conveniently block...
Article 50-5: A provider of information and communications services shall, when it intends to install a program designed to display advertising information...
Article 50-4: A provider of information and communications services may take measures to refuse rendering corresponding services in any of the following cases...
Article 50-3: A person who has commissioned a third party to transmit advertising information for profit on his/her behalf shall control and oversee the person...
Article 50: If any person intends to transmit advertising information for profit by using an electronic transmission medium...
Article 49-2: No one shall collect another person's information through an information and communications network by an act of deceit, nor shall entice another person by an act of deceit to furnish information...
Article 49: No one shall mutilate another person's information processed, stored, or transmitted through an information and communications network, nor shall infringe, misappropriate, or divulge another person's secret...
Article 48-4: A person who operates an information and communications network, including a provider of information and communications services...
Article 48-3: A person falling under any of the following subparagraphs shall, where he/she discovers an intrusion, immediately report it to the Minister of Science...
Article 48-2: The Minister of Science, ICT and Future Planning shall perform the following business affairs to take proper countermeasures against intrusion...
Article 48: No one shall intrude on an information and communications network without a rightful authority for access or beyond a permitted authority for access...
Article 47-5: A person who has obtained the certification for information security management system pursuant to Article 47 is entitled to receive the management rating...
Article 47-4: The Government may prescribe guidelines necessary for protection of information of users to recommend users to observe the guidelines...
Article 47-3: With respect to a person who established and is operating a comprehensive management system including administrative...
Article 47-2: If a legal entity or organization designated as a certification body for information security management system or an examination institution for information security management...
Article 47: With respect to the person who has established and operates a comprehensive management system...
Article 46-2: A business operator of clustered information and communications facilities may...
Article 46: Every business operator who operates and manages clustered information and communications facilities to render information and communications services...
Article 45-3: A provider of information and communications services may designate a chief information protection officer at a level of an executive officer for security...
Article 45-2: A provider of information and communications services shall, if he/she intends to newly establish an information and communications network or to provide information and communications services...
Article 45: Every provider of information and communications services shall take protective measures to secure the reliability of the information and security of the information and communications networks...
Article 44-10: The Communications Standards Commission shall have the defamation dispute conciliation division comprised of five members or less for efficient conciliation...
Article 44-7: No one may circulate information falling under any of the following subparagraphs through an information and communications network...
Article 44-6: A person who alleges that information published or circulated by a specific user has intruded on his/her privacy...
Article 44-5: Any of the following persons shall, if he/she intends to install and operate a message board, take necessary measures...
Article 44-4: An organization of providers of information and communications services may establish and implement a code of conduct...
Article 44-3: A provider of information and communications services may, if it finds that information circulated through the information and communications network operated and managed by him/her intrudes on someone's privacy...
Article 44-2: Where information provided through an information and communications network purposely to be made public intrudes on other persons' privacy...
Article 44: No user may circulate any information violative of other person's rights, including invasion of privacy and defamation, through an information and communications network....
Article 43: An information provider specified by Presidential Decree among those who engage in a business of providing unwholesome media for juvenile...
Article 42-2: No one may transmit, to a juvenile under subparagraph 1 of Article 2 of the Juvenile Protection Act...
Article 42-3: A provider of information and communications services whose the average number of users per day, sales, and other related factors...
Article 42: A person who provides information to the general public purposely to make it public through telecommunications services rendered by a telecommunications business operator...
Article 41: The Korea Communications Commission shall prepare a policy on the following measures to protect juvenile from unwholesome information for juvenile...
Article 32-3: A provider, etc. of information and communications services shall ensure that users’ personal information such as resident registration numbers...
Article 32-2: Where a user falls under each of the following subparagraphs, he/she may claim resonable compensation not exceeding three million won as damages...
Article 32: Where a user suffers any damage caused by a violation of any provision of this Chapter by a provider...
Article 31: A provider of information and communications services or similar shall, if he/she desires to obtain consent of a child of less than 14 years on collection, use, furnishing...
Article 30-2: A provider of information and communications services or similar falling under the standards determined by Presidential Decree...
Article 30: Every user may, at any time, revoke his/her consent given to a provider of information and communications services or similar to allow the provider to collect, use, or furnish his/her personal information...
Article 29: A provider of information and communications services or similar shall, if any of the followings occurs...
Article 28-2: A person who manages or has ever manages personal information of users shall not damage...
Article 28: Every provider of information and communications services or similar shall, when he/she manages personal information of users, take the following technical and administrative measures...
Article 27-3: When a provider of information and communications services or similar becomes aware of the loss, theft, or leakage of personal information...
Article 27-2: Every provider of information and communications services or similar shall, when he/she manages personal information of users...
Article 27: Every provider of information and communications services or similar shall designate a person responsible for protection of personal information so that he/she protects the personal information...
Article 26-2: The method applicable in obtaining the consent under Article 22 (1), the proviso to Article 23 (1), Article 24-2 (1) or (2), Article 25 (1), the proviso to Article 26 (3), or Article 63 (2)...
Article 26: Where a provider of information and communications services or similar transfers personal information of users to a third party due to transfer of business...
Article 25: A provider of information and communications services or a person who received personal information of users from the provider of information...
Article 24-2: Every provider of information and communications services shall, whenever he/she intends to furnish a third party with personal information of a user...
Article 24: No provider of information and communications services may use personal information collected in accordance with Article 22...
Article 23-4: When the identification service agency falls under any of the following subparagraphs, the Korea Communications Commission...
Article 23-3: The Korea Communications Commission may, after reviewing each item of the following subparagraphs...
Article 23-2: Other than the cases falling under any of the following subparagraphs, a provider of information and communications services may not collect/use users’ resident registration numbers...
Article 23: No provider of information and communications services may collect personal information regarding any person...
Article 22-2: Where a provider of information and communications services needs authority to access...
Article 22: A provider of information and communications services shall, whenever he/she intends to collect personal information of a user purposely to use it...
Article 15: The Minister of Science, ICT and Future Planning shall prepare and enforce a policy to protect rights and interests of users of internet service...
Article 14: The Government shall induce public and private sectors to use internet facilities available in public and private sectors so that internet can be proliferated...
Article 13: The Minister of Science, ICT and Future Planning may implement projects designed to promote efficient use and dissemination of technology...
Article 12: The Government may encourage to build up a system for sharing information through linked operation and standardization of information...
Article 11: The Government may provide financial and technical support, or otherwise as may be necessary...
Article 10: With an aim of securing national competitiveness and enhancing the public interest, the Government may provide financial and technical support...
Article 9: The Minister of Science, ICT and Future Planning may designate an institution to certify products related to information and communications networks...
Article 8: The Minister of Science, ICT and Future Planning shall establish and provide a public notice the standards for information and communications networks in order to promote the use of information...
Article 7: The Minister of Science, ICT and Future Planning shall manage, systematically and comprehensively...
Article 6: The Minister of Science, ICT and Future Planning may engage the relevant research institute, as prescribed by Presidential Decree...
Article 5: Except as otherwise provided for in any other Act, the promotion of use of information and communications networks...
Article 4: The Minister of Science, ICT and Future Planning or the Korea Communications Commission shall prepare policies to lay a foundation for an information society through the promotion of utilization...
Article 3: Every provider of information and communications services shall contribute to protection of rights and interests of users and enhancement of users...
Article 2: The definitions of terms used in this Act shall be as follows...
Article 1: The purpose of this Act is to contribute to improving citizens’ lives and enhancing public welfare by facilitating utilization of information and communications networks...
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