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South Korea AI Basic Act

Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) · pack 0.1.2 · verified against the official source as of 2026-09-27.

Binding law — in force

High-impact and generative AI must give advance AI-use notice and label generative outputs (South Korea)

Under the Korea AI Basic Act Article 31, an AI business operator that provides a product or service using high-impact or generative AI must notify users in advance that it runs on that AI (31(1)); a provider of generative AI, or of a product or service using it, must label its outputs as generated by generative AI (31(2)); and outputs such as virtual sound, images, or video that are hard to distinguish from real ones must be notified or labeled so users clearly recognize they were AI-generated, with a less intrusive manner allowed for artistic or creative works (31(3)). Methods and exceptions are set by Presidential Decree (31(4)). Extraterritorial. Detect a high-impact or generative AI service with no advance AI-use notice, generative outputs with no AI-generated label, or realistic synthetic media with no clear notice or label.

kr-ai-basic-act.ai-transparency · 인공지능기본법 제31조 (Art. 31) · official source · jurisdictions: KR

Binding law — in force

High-impact AI operators must run risk management, explanations, and human oversight (South Korea)

Under the Korea AI Basic Act Article 34, an AI business operator providing high-impact AI (or a product or service using it) must implement, as prescribed by Presidential Decree: a risk-management plan; an explanation plan covering, where technically feasible, the AI's final results, the main criteria used to reach them, and an overview of the training data; user-protection measures; human management and supervision of the high-impact AI; preparation and retention of documents evidencing these measures; and other measures resolved by the national AI committee (34(1)). The Minister of Science and ICT publishes the details and may recommend compliance (34(2)); equivalent measures taken under other laws count as compliance (34(3)). Detect a high-impact AI path with no risk-management, explanation, user-protection, human-oversight, or documentation artifacts.

kr-ai-basic-act.high-impact-ai-responsibilities · 인공지능기본법 제34조 (Art. 34) · official source · jurisdictions: KR