South Korea: AI and scraping law

South Korea

AI law

South Korea's AI-output-transparency regime rests on Article 31 of the Framework Act on the Development of Artificial Intelligence and Establishment of a Foundation for Trustworthiness (the AI Framework Act), which took effect together with its Enforcement Decree on 2026-01-22 and imposes prior-use notice, generative-output labeling, and deepfake-notice duties on AI business operators, reaching non-domestic operators serving Korean users. The Ministry of Science and ICT is deferring administrative fines for most violations, including labeling violations, for about one year from the effective date as an implementation grace period, but the underlying duty is already in force. A separate election-law prohibition, Public Official Election Act Article 82-8, bans AI-generated deepfake campaign content within 90 days of an election and is treated here as out of scope: it is structurally a ban with only a secondary labeling-based exemption, not an affirmative disclosure duty, so it belongs to a prohibited-practices inquiry rather than this transparency document. Four candidates the legacy corpus derivation associated with this topic, the Information and Communications Network Act Article 48, the Personal Information Protection Act, the Unfair Competition Prevention Act, and Copyright Act Articles 91 to 98, were checked and confirmed to carry no AI-output-labeling content.

8 instruments named 1 researched in detail As of 2026-08-14

Instruments

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AI transparency

AI Framework Act, Article 31 (transparency obligations for AI outputs)

Act No. 20676, Article 31 In effect Effective 2026-01-22 official statute portal, National Law Information Center (law.go.kr)

An AI business operator providing a product or service using high-impact or generative AI must give users prior notice that it operates on that AI. An operator providing generative AI, or a product or service using it, must indicate that output was AI-generated, either through a human-perceptible label or machine-readable metadata or watermark. Where an operator uses AI to produce a virtual sound, image, or video difficult to distinguish from reality, only a user-perceptible label satisfies the deepfake-specific duty, with a narrow exception for artistic or creative works. The Act reaches conduct outside Korea affecting Korean users under its own extraterritoriality clause, and a foreign operator meeting revenue or user thresholds must appoint a domestic representative.