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To secure uniformity in the application of statutes to information disclosure work by reflecting the main amendments to the Enforcement Decree of the Official Information Disclosure Act and the Enforcement Rule of the Official Information Disclosure Act (expansion of the range of identification documents, including mobile resident registration cards), and to supplement and reorganise deficiencies in the current Rules.
The Prosecution Service Act has been enacted to build a system in which investigative and prosecutorial agencies can check each other, by, among other things, abolishing the Public Prosecutors' Office and newly establishing a Prosecution Service under the Minister of Justice. The Criminal Procedure Act has also been amended to, among other things, abolish prosecutors' power of direct investigation and to make judicial police officers the sole investigating authority. In line with these changes, this amendment is intended to revise the forms relating to accusations against immigration offenders. <Provided by the Ministry of Justice>
The Military Service Act has been amended (Act No. 21769, promulgated on June 9, 2026, in force from December 10, 2026). The amendment allows the commissioner of a regional military manpower administration, in connection with verification physical examinations, to request heads of medical institutions, etc. to submit the medical records, treatment-related records, etc. of persons subject to verification physical examinations. It also allows the Commissioner of the Military Manpower Administration to delegate authority over the selection of distinguished military service families to commissioners of regional military manpower administrations. Accordingly, this amendment is intended to prescribe matters delegated by the Act and matters necessary for their enforcement, such as the grounds and scope of requests for materials, including medical records, needed for verification physical examinations, the procedure for revoking dispositions based on the results of verification physical examinations, and the entity responsible for the work following the delegation of authority over the selection of distinguished military service families. In addition, as the Act newly provides a basis for establishing and operating an information system so that the service of social service personnel may be managed electronically, the amendment is intended to revise the cross-referenced provisions accordingly and otherwise to improve and supplement certain deficiencies identified in the operation of the current system.
Authors increasingly create and publish works under names other than their real names, such as stage names, pen names and abbreviated names (hereinafter "alternative names"). However, the current Enforcement Decree prescribes the particulars to be entered in the copyright register only as the "name" of the author, etc. There is therefore no basis for displaying an alternative name in the register, and it is difficult for third parties to verify the rights relating to works known under an alternative name. Accordingly, the amendment is intended to allow an alternative name to be entered in the copyright register together with the real name and, where both are entered, to allow the applicant for registration to choose the manner in which they are disclosed through the registration gazette, inspection of the register, etc. In addition, the terms 'name', 'name-etc.' and 'name, etc.' are used interchangeably in the Enforcement Decree, and the amendment is intended to unify them as 'real name', the expression used in the Copyright Act, so as to ensure consistency of terminology across statutes.
An amendment to the Enforcement Decree of the Copyright Act is being pursued (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Public Notice No. 2026-0402) that would, among other things, allow the manner of disclosing the real names of authors, etc. to be chosen or changed. Accordingly, this amendment is intended to prescribe matters delegated by statute and matters necessary for their enforcement, such as the method of choosing the manner of disclosure and the procedure for applying for a change. It is also intended to improve and supplement certain deficiencies that have emerged in the operation of the current system. For example, it requires an AI-use statement to be submitted when registration is applied for in respect of a work created using generative artificial intelligence. It also requires a minor applying for registration to obtain the consent of a legal representative, while prescribing substitute documents where that consent cannot be obtained.
The Prosecution Service Act and the Act on the Organization and Operation of the Serious Crimes Investigation Agency have been enacted to build a system in which investigative and prosecutorial agencies can check each other. They abolish the Public Prosecutors' Office and newly establish a Prosecution Service under the Minister of Justice and a Serious Crimes Investigation Agency under the Minister of the Interior and Safety, respectively. The Criminal Procedure Act has also been amended to, among other things, lay the administrative and organisational foundation for a new criminal justice system in which investigation and prosecution are institutionally separated. Accordingly, this amendment is intended to rename the former Public Prosecutors' Office, which is designated as an institution conducting investigations, inspections, etc., as the Prosecution Service and the Serious Crimes Investigation Agency, and to revise the related content in accordance with the changes made by the Acts.
This amendment is intended to adapt the relevant systems to reality. It abolishes the cap on the period of military service additionally credited to the National Pension coverage period. It raises the additionally credited period recognised for a second child from "12 months" to "15 months". It also applies reciprocity in principle to foreigners' deferred payment of pension contributions and to dependants' pension amounts, while allowing exceptions in consideration of status of stay, period of residence in Korea, etc. <Provided by the Ministry of Government Legislation>
PRO SE wrote these editorial questions after reading the PDF of the original text of Bill No. 2221849, the bill's National Assembly legislative status page on the National Participation in Legislation Center, and the current provisions of the Special Act on Health and Medical Care in Farming and Fishing Villages, Etc. (Act No. 20449, effective September 20, 2024) and the Local Public Officials Act (Act No. 21857, effective October 2, 2026), as checked through lawtool on October 16, 2026. They are not a citizen's opinion or an opinion submitted to the National Assembly or the Government, and they do not assess whether the length of service or the level of remuneration is appropriate. The texts of the four bills on which the bill relies, including one to amend the Military Service Act, the committee review reports and the cost estimates were not verified.
Bill No. 2221849, a partial amendment to the Special Act on Health and Medical Care in Farming and Fishing Villages, Etc., seeks to reduce the mandatory service of public health doctors to two years, including the period of military training call-up; to pay them at an appropriate level prescribed by Presidential Decree instead of capping their pay at military rates; and to add new provisions on remuneration and support for dedicated primary health care officials and other staff. Reading the bill alongside current Articles 7, 11, 15, and 24 of the Act and Article 44 of the Local Public Officials Act, this entry sets out the questions that remain.
PRO SE wrote these editorial questions after reading the PDF of the original text of Bill No. 2221867, the bill's National Assembly legislative status page on the National Participation in Legislation Center, and the current provisions of the Cancer Control Act (Act No. 21262, effective March 31, 2026) and the Medical Service Act (Act No. 21490, effective October 2, 2026), as checked through lawtool on October 16, 2026. They are not a citizen's opinion or an opinion submitted to the National Assembly or the Government, and they do not assess the merits of medical policy. The bill's progress is covered only up to its referral to the competent committee, as shown on the page on October 16, 2026; review reports and fiscal estimates were not verified.
Bill No. 2221867, a partial amendment to the Cancer Control Act, seeks to add to the Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan a regional plan for designating and supporting proton and heavy-ion therapy centers, and to establish a system for designating therapy centers, a secretariat, subsidies for equipment costs, and long-term low-interest loans. Reading the bill alongside current Articles 5, 6, 19, 46, and 48 of the Cancer Control Act and Article 3 of the Medical Service Act, this entry sets out where the provisions do not fit together and the questions that remain.
PRO SE wrote these editorial questions after reading the PDF of the original text of Bill No. 2221828, the bill's National Assembly legislative status page on the National Participation in Legislation Center, and the current provisions of the Environmental Impact Assessment Act (Act No. 21065, effective October 1, 2025), as checked through lawtool on October 16, 2026. They are not a citizen's opinion or an opinion submitted to the National Assembly or the Government, and they cover the bill's progress only up to its referral to the competent committee, as shown on the page on October 16, 2026. The Enforcement Decree, committee review reports, and case law were not verified.
Bill No. 2221828, a partial amendment to the Environmental Impact Assessment Act, seeks to allow the project operator or the head of the approving authority to ask the Minister of Climate, Energy and Environment for an adjustment of the outcome of consultation, requests for supplementation and adjustment, and notices of re-examination in a small-scale environmental impact assessment. Reading the bill alongside current Articles 8, 31, 44, 45, and 46-2, this entry sets out the questions left open by applying those provisions mutatis mutandis.
PRO SE wrote these editorial questions after reading the National Assembly legislative status page for Bill No. 2221433 on the National Participation in Legislation Center and the PDF of the bill's original text, together with the current provisions of the Copyright Act as shown on the National Law Information Center on October 16, 2026. They are not a citizen's opinion or an opinion submitted to the National Assembly or the Government, and they are not legal advice on any individual production or appearance contract. The bill's progress is covered only as far as the page showed on the date it was checked.
Bill No. 2221433, a partial amendment to the Copyright Act, proposes to give the authors and performers of audiovisual works a right to reasonable compensation even after they transfer their rights, and to require retransmission service providers and online video service providers to pay them directly. Setting the bill alongside current Articles 99 and 100 and Article 25, which governs compensation collectives, this entry raises questions about the criteria for compensation, who may exercise the right, how those obliged to pay relate to one another, and how existing contracts are treated.
PRO SE wrote this editorial question after reading the National Assembly legislative status page for Bill No. 2221126 on the National Participation Legislation Center and the PDF of the bill text, together with the provisions of the Labor Standards Act and the Special Measures for Strengthening and Protecting the Competitiveness of National Advanced Strategic Industries Act in force as shown on the Korea Law Information Center on October 16, 2026. It is neither a citizen's opinion nor an opinion submitted to the National Assembly or the Government, and it is not labor advice on an individual employment contract or workplace. It covers the bill's progress only as shown on the screen on the reference date.
This reads the proposal of Bill No. 2221126, a partial amendment to the Labor Standards Act, to allow standards different from the provisions on working hours, rest, and holidays to apply to persons engaged in research and development work in national advanced strategic industries by written agreement of the parties. It places the bill alongside the current provisions on overtime work, special exceptions, deemed working hours, exclusion from application, overtime premium pay, and penalties, and leaves as questions who the parties to the agreement are, the limits of the standards, overtime premium pay, and how health protection measures are linked to penalties.
This is a PRO SE editorial question written after reading the National Participation Legislation Center's National Assembly legislative status screen and the bill text PDF for Bill No. 2221865, and the provisions of the Personal Information Protection Act in force as displayed on the Korea Law Information Center on October 16, 2026. It is neither a citizen's opinion nor an opinion submitted to the National Assembly or the Government, and it is not legal advice on an individual leak incident. It covers the bill's progress only as shown on the screen on the reference date.
This entry reads the proposal in Bill No. 2221865, a partial amendment to the Personal Information Protection Act, to establish a Personal Information Infringement Remedy Fund and pay relief to data subjects who have not received compensation. It places the bill alongside the current damages provision and the provisions on statutory damages, guarantee of damages liability, administrative fines, and collective dispute mediation, and leaves as questions the requirements for payment, the scope of subrogation, the source of funding, and the timing of implementation.
This is a PRO SE editorial question written after reading the National Participation Legislation Center's National Assembly legislative status screen and the bill text PDF, the current provisions of the Administrative Litigation Act and the Administrative Appeals Act as displayed on the Korea Law Information Center on October 16, 2026, and the text of Supreme Court Decision 2015Du45045. It is neither a citizen's opinion nor an opinion submitted to the National Assembly, and it is not advice on an individual permit dispute or lawsuit. It covers the bill's progress only as shown on the screen on the reference date.
Bill No. 2218346, a partial amendment to the Administrative Litigation Act, seeks to provide that where a person other than the person who filed the administrative appeal sues to revoke an adjudication that revoked a refusal disposition or confirmed its invalidity, or an adjudication ordering performance of an obligation, that person's legal interest may not be denied on the ground that the person may contest a subsequent disposition. The entry places the bill alongside the current provisions of the Administrative Litigation Act and the Administrative Appeals Act and Supreme Court Decision 2015Du45045 of October 31, 2017, which addressed the same issue, and leaves the points that arise as questions.
This is a PRO SE editorial question written after reading the National Assembly legislative status screens for the two bills on the National Participation Legislation Center, the PDF text of each bill, and the provisions of the Special Act on Prevention of Insurance Fraud, the Criminal Act, and the Act on the Aggravated Punishment, etc. of Specific Economic Crimes in force as displayed on the Korea Law Information Center on October 16, 2026. It is neither a citizen's opinion nor an opinion submitted to the National Assembly, and it is not advice on an individual criminal case or insurance claim dispute. It covers the progress of the bills only up to what was displayed on the screen on the date of confirmation.
This entry reads together two bills partially amending the Special Act on Prevention of Insurance Fraud (Bill No. 2218171 and Bill No. 2219016), both referred to a subcommittee of the National Policy Committee. One bill raises the penalty for insurance fraud, which became the lighter of the two after the statutory penalty for fraud under the Criminal Act was raised to 20 years, and the other seeks to remove the fine as a penalty for habitual insurance fraud by self-inflicted harm extortion. Noting that neither bill was drafted with the other in mind, the entry sets this against current Articles 8 through 11 and Articles 347 and 351 of the Criminal Act and leaves the points that arise as questions.
This is a PRO SE editorial question written after reading the National Assembly legislative status screens for the three bills on the National Participation Legislation Center, the PDF text of each bill, and the provisions of the Framework Act on Administrative Investigations, the Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act, the Act on Fair Transactions in Large Retail Business, the Fair Agency Transactions Act, the Fair Transactions in Subcontracting Act, the Serious Accidents Punishment Act, the Product Liability Act, and the Framework Act on Consumers in force as displayed on the Korea Law Information Center on October 16, 2026. It is neither a citizen's opinion nor an opinion submitted to the National Assembly, and it is neither an evaluation of nor advice on any particular company's investigation or lawsuit. It covers the progress of the bills only up to what was displayed on the screen on the date of confirmation.
This entry reads together three bills partially amending the Framework Act on Administrative Investigations, proposed between August and September 2026 (Bill No. 2220824, Bill No. 2221155, and Bill No. 2221597). All three bills widen the exclusion from application under Article 3, paragraph (2), subparagraph 7, but they differ in the range of statutes they add, in their wording, and in their application rules. It places them alongside the current exceptions to prior notice, the extent to which the investigation provisions of the Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act apply mutatis mutandis, and the provisions of the statutes the bills would add, and leaves the points that arise as questions.
This is a PRO SE editorial question written after reading the National Participation Legislation Center's advance notice screen (Notice No. 88788), the attached hwpx file of the draft, the provision-by-provision statement of reasons for the amendment, the National Assembly legislative status screen for the partial amendment bill to the Military Personnel Act (substitute bill, Bill No. 2218508), and the current and forthcoming provisions of the Military Personnel Act, the Regulation on Disciplinary Actions against Soldiers, the Regulation on Disciplinary Actions against Public Officials, the National Civil Service Act, and the Code of Conduct for Public Officials as displayed on the Korea Law Information Center on October 16, 2026. It is neither a citizen's opinion nor an opinion submitted to the Ministry of National Defense, and it is not advice on an individual disciplinary case. On the reference date the notice period had not yet ended, and this entry covers only what the screens and files showed on that day.
This entry reads the draft partial amendment to the Regulation on Disciplinary Actions against Soldiers for which the Ministry of National Defense gave advance legislative notice on September 22, 2026. The draft, which seeks to implement in detail Article 59-3, paragraph (4) and Article 59, paragraph (8), subparagraph 3 of the Military Personnel Act, both scheduled to take effect on December 10, 2026, sets the scope of investigation materials that may be obtained for disciplinary purposes differently for each investigating agency and defines the scope of abusive conduct within the military. The entry places these approaches alongside the current provisions and Article 8-3 of the Regulation on Disciplinary Actions against Public Officials and leaves the points that arise as questions.
This is a PRO SE editorial question written after reading the National Participation Legislation Center's National Assembly legislative status screen and the bill text PDF for Bill No. 2219817, and the provisions of the Commercial Act, the Criminal Act, and the Act on the Aggravated Punishment, etc. of Specific Economic Crimes in force as displayed on the Korea Law Information Center on October 16, 2026. It is not an opinion submitted to the National Assembly or the Government, and it covers the bill's progress only as shown on the screen on October 16, 2026. Case law and the special breach of trust provisions in other statutes were not reviewed.
Bill No. 2219817, a partial amendment to the Commercial Act, proposes deleting the special offense of breach of trust by directors and other officers (Article 622), so that breaches of duty under corporate law are dealt with as civil liability and criminal liability is dealt with under general criminal law. It places the bill alongside the penalty provisions of the Commercial Act in force on the reference date, the offense of breach of trust under the Criminal Act, and the provisions of the Act on the Aggravated Punishment, etc. of Specific Economic Crimes, and leaves as questions the other penalty provisions that cite Article 622, the Article 623 that would remain, and the bill's relationship to the expanded duty of loyalty.
This is a PRO SE editorial question written after reading the National Participation Legislation Center's National Assembly legislative status screen and the bill text PDF for Bill No. 2216282, the screens for two other bills on the same subject, and the current provisions of the Debtor Rehabilitation and Bankruptcy Act and the Housing Lease Protection Act and the texts of Supreme Court decisions as displayed on the Korea Law Information Center on October 16, 2026. It is not an opinion submitted to the National Assembly or the Government, and it covers the bill's progress only as shown on the screen on October 16, 2026.
Bill No. 2216282, a partial amendment to the Debtor Rehabilitation and Bankruptcy Act, would make a housing lease security deposit that carries a right to preferential payment a non-dischargeable claim in both bankruptcy and individual rehabilitation, and would give tenants a new right to apply for the auction of houses and commercial buildings in the bankruptcy estate. Reading the bill alongside the provisions in force on the reference date and the two Supreme Court decisions of 2017 and 2025, the entry raises questions about the differences in wording between the two procedures and the points at which the right to apply for auction joins the existing rules.
This is an editorial question by PRO SE, written after reading, on October 16, 2026, the National Assembly legislation status page of the National Participatory Legislation Center and the original bill PDF for Bill No. 2221071, together with the current legislation and the original text of a Supreme Court judgment at the Korea Law Information Center. It is not an opinion submitted to the National Assembly or the Government, and the progress of the bill is covered only as far as shown on the page on October 16, 2026. Constitutional Court decisions on suspension of indictment were not read directly for this entry.
Bill No. 2221071, a partial amendment to the Criminal Procedure Act, would allow a suspect who objects to a disposition of suspension of indictment to bring an administrative action within 90 days from the date of receiving notice. This entry sets the bill alongside the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Act, the Prosecution Service Act, the Administrative Litigation Act and the Constitutional Court Act as of the reference date, and alongside the Supreme Court judgment that denied that a decision not to prosecute is subject to appeal litigation, and leaves as questions the subject matter of the action, the effect of the judgment, and the relationship with the complainant's procedures for objection.
This is an editorial question by PRO SE, written after reading, on October 16, 2026, the announcement of Financial Services Commission Public Notice No. 2026-561, the attached draft legislation PDF, the article-by-article statement of reasons for enactment and amendment, the government legislation status page of the National Participatory Legislation Center, the page for the National Assembly alternative bill (No. 2218519), and, at the Korea Law Information Center, the amended Act (Act No. 21647) and the Enforcement Decree in force on the reference date. It is not an opinion submitted in response to the advance notice of legislation, and the subordinate public notices and the regulatory impact analysis were not read.
The amendment to the Financial Investment Services and Capital Markets Act (Act No. 21647), taking effect on November 13, 2026, permits pre-filing demand assessment and advance subscription by cornerstone investors before a securities registration statement is filed, and allows information provided in that process to be treated as an exception to the prohibition on the use of material non-public information. This entry reads how the draft Enforcement Decree, given advance notice of legislation by the Financial Services Commission on July 30, 2026, fills in that exception and the operating standards, and leaves as questions the threshold for the exception, its proof, and the scope of re-delegation to public notices.
This is an editorial question by PRO SE. It is based on four sources: the notice text of Fair Trade Commission Public Notice No. 2026-216, the attached PDF of the draft statute, the article-by-article statement of reasons for enactment and amendment, and the current provisions of the Act and the Enforcement Decree as shown on the National Law Information Centre on October 16, 2026. It is not an opinion submitted in response to the advance legislative notice. It covers the progress of the proposal only as shown on the National Participatory Legislation Centre screen on October 16, 2026. The original text of the Public Notice on the operation of the leniency programme was not consulted.
This entry examines the proposed amendment to the Enforcement Decree of the Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act, for which the Fair Trade Commission gave advance legislative notice on September 23, 2026. The proposal would make four changes. It would replace the surcharge exemption for the first cooperating party after the commencement of an investigation with a 75 per cent reduction. It would bar leniency for a new cartel within five years after a sanction. It would halve leniency for a repeat violation within ten years. It would also extend these limits to successors to the business. The entry sets these changes beside the current Article 44 of the Act and Article 51 of the Enforcement Decree and poses the gaps as questions.
This is an editorial question by PRO SE, written after reading the pre-announcement page on the National Participatory Legislation Center (notice No. 88722), the attached bill file, and the current Public Officials Accident Compensation Act and Civil Act provisions on the Korea Law Information Center as of October 16, 2026. It is not a citizen's opinion or an opinion submitted to the Government or the National Assembly, and it is not advice on any individual accident compensation claim. As of the verification date, the pre-announcement period had not yet ended, and this entry covers only what was displayed on the page on that date.
This entry reads the Partial Amendment Bill to the Public Officials Accident Compensation Act that the Ministry of Personnel Management pre-announced on September 22, 2026. Alongside the increases in compensation, the bill changes the affiliation of the Pension Committee, widens the scope for omitting deliberation, contains discrepancies in the wording of the sanction provisions on fraudulent receipt of benefits, and links forfeiture of inheritance rights to survivors' benefits. The entry sets these against the current provisions and Article 1004-2 of the Civil Act and leaves them as questions.
This is an editorial question prepared by PRO SE. It is based on the National Assembly legislative status page for Bill No. 2219280 on the National Participatory Legislation Center, the original text of the bill in PDF, and the provisions of the current Patent Act and Invention Promotion Act on the Korea Law Information Center as of October 16, 2026. It is not a citizen's opinion or a submission to the National Assembly or the Government, and it is not advice on any particular patent or licence agreement. It covers the progress of the bill only as far as shown on the page on the verification date.
This entry reads Bill No. 2219280, a partial amendment to the Patent Act, which proposes to abolish the requirement of non-exclusive licensees' consent when a trial for correction is requested and instead to require that they be notified of the request. It sets the bill beside current Article 136, the provisions applying it mutatis mutandis to requests for correction, the trial for invalidation of correction, and the provisions on licences, and leaves open, as questions, the effect of the duty to notify, the procedural standing of non-exclusive licensees, and the scope of the transitional measures.
This is an editorial question prepared by PRO SE. It is based on the National Assembly legislative status page for Bill No. 2219923 on the National Participatory Legislation Center, the original text of the bill in PDF, and the provisions of the current Family Litigation Act and Civil Execution Act on the Korea Law Information Center as of October 16, 2026. It is not a citizen's opinion or a submission to the National Assembly or the Government, and it is not legal advice on any individual family case. It covers the progress of the bill only as far as shown on the page on the verification date.
This entry reads Bill No. 2219923, a partial amendment to the Family Litigation Act, which proposes that prior dispositions be made by decision and be given enforceability. It sets the bill beside current Article 62, Article 63 (provisional attachment and provisional disposition), Article 64 (performance orders), the provisions on appeals and immediate appeals, and the provisions of the Civil Execution Act on preservative measures. It leaves open, as questions, who may challenge a prior disposition, how it is to be enforced, and where it sits in relation to existing mechanisms.
This is an editorial question by PRO SE. It was written after reading the National Assembly legislative-status page and the original bill PDF for Bill No. 2221037, the page for the earlier advance legislative notice by the Ministry of Finance and Economy, and the current provisions of the Framework Act on National Taxes and the Corporate Tax Act on the National Law Information Center as at October 16, 2026. It is not a citizen's opinion, nor an opinion submitted to the National Assembly or the Government, and it is not tax advice. It covers the progress of the Bill only as far as shown on the page on the verification date.
This entry reads the Government-submitted Partial Amendment Bill to the Framework Act on National Taxes (Bill No. 2221037). It sets the current provisions alongside the Bill's proposals and leaves open questions on each. The proposals are a new reduction band for returns filed after the deadline, a higher reduction rate for delays in pre-assessment review, the exclusion period for assessment applied to amounts subject to income disposition, the inclusion of the date of payment in the calculation of the penalty-tax period, the abolition of the ceiling on rewards, and a lower threshold for publication of names.
This is an editorial question by PRO SE, written after reading the advance legislative notice page on the National Participatory Legislation Center (notice no. 87002), the draft bill file attached to that page, and the provisions of the Civil Act, the Civil Conciliation Act, the Arbitration Act, the Civil Execution Act and the Civil Procedure Act as checked on the National Law Information Center on October 16, 2026. It is neither a citizen's opinion nor an opinion submitted to the Government or the National Assembly, and it is not legal advice. Developments after the notice are covered only up to the search results of the National Assembly legislative status service on the National Participatory Legislation Center as of the verification date.
This entry reads the bill for the enactment of the Act on the Recognition and Enforcement of Settlement Agreements Resulting from International Commercial Mediation, for which the Ministry of Justice gave advance legislative notice on June 4, 2026. Setting it beside the recognition and enforcement provisions of the Arbitration Act, the settlement provisions of the Civil Act, and the relevant provisions of the Civil Execution Act and the Civil Procedure Act, it leaves open as questions the scope of review, the treatment of a decision that carries no res judicata effect, and the effect of an immediate appeal.
The Patent Act, the Utility Model Act and the Design Protection Act have been amended to reset the appropriate ceiling on reductions of patent fees for individual applicants. The amendments also create a new item awarding intellectual property points where an applicant files for technology researched and developed after a patent analysis conducted through an industrial property diagnostic institution, and ease the requirements for restoring rights where patent fees or registration fees are unpaid. Accordingly, this amendment is intended to prescribe the payment amounts delegated by statute and to extend the deadline for the temporary award of intellectual property points to December 31, 2029. It is also intended to extend to December 31, 2030 the temporary reduction periods for the registration fee for creating a pledge over a patent right, etc., the transfer registration fees of dedicated institutions, specialised institutions, etc., the registration fee for creating a pledge, and patent fees and registration fees.
Article 35 of the Refugee Act and Article 16 of its Enforcement Decree provide that academic credentials obtained abroad by recognised refugees are to be recognised in accordance with education-related statutes. Article 7 of the Global Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education, ratified by the Government in April 2025, imposes on States Parties an obligation to develop procedures for recognising the foreign qualifications of refugees. Nevertheless, the current refugee legislation lacks a specific procedure through which recognised refugees can have their credentials recognised. Accordingly, the amendment is intended to establish a procedure through which recognised refugees can have academic credentials obtained abroad recognised. This would facilitate their admission to higher educational institutions, employment, etc., and thereby support their stable settlement and self-reliance in Korea.
This amendment is intended to remedy deficiencies in the current system and to enhance convenience for refugee applicants. It creates the procedures and forms necessary for recognising the foreign academic credentials of recognised refugees. It requires the receiving official to provide information on living-expense and medical support when an application for refugee recognition is filed. It also adds a field for consent to the provision of personal information to third parties to the "Application for Living Expense, etc. Support" and allows the applicant's personal bank account to be entered in the "Application for Medical Support".
To enhance the fairness of military service determinations by improving and supplementing certain deficiencies that have emerged in the operation of the system, while reflecting changing realities such as the latest medical technology.
The Act on the Control of Military Uniforms and Military Equipment has been amended to require the revocation of a licence where, among other cases, a person licensed to manufacture or sell military uniforms or military equipment does not commence business within one year from the date of the licence without justifiable grounds prescribed by Presidential Decree, such as natural disasters. In line with that amendment, this amendment is intended to revise the administrative disposition criteria. It is also intended to revise the documents to be submitted under the forms, such as the application for a licence to manufacture or sell military uniforms and military equipment, to reflect actual practice.
To promote workers' housing welfare by revising the relevant provisions so that the range of worker welfare facilities on which an in-house worker welfare fund corporation may spend its proceeds may include housing that the corporation provides to workers free of charge or at low cost for their housing stability, and otherwise to improve and supplement certain deficiencies that have emerged in the operation of the current system.
The Special Act on Support for Victims of Jeonse Fraud and Housing Stability has been amended (Act No. 21634, promulgated on May 12, 2026, in force from November 13, 2026). Among other things, the amendment introduces a "minimum guarantee system", which covers the shortfall where the total of the amounts, etc. received by a jeonse fraud victim by exercising the right to set up against third parties or the right to preferential repayment falls short of the minimum guaranteed amount, equal to one-third of the lease deposit. It also establishes a procedure for advance payment of the minimum guaranteed amount. Further, it provides a basis for support from local governments where a cooperative established by jeonse fraud victims, etc., or a real estate investment company in which such a cooperative holds at least a certain share, purchases jeonse fraud-affected housing or conducts a leasing business. Accordingly, this amendment is intended to prescribe matters delegated by the Act and matters necessary for its enforcement. These include the criteria for calculating the minimum support amount, the criteria for calculating advance payments and the method of settling them, and the criteria for real estate investment companies to which local governments may provide administrative and financial support.
To promote the systematic and efficient management and use of public property by introducing a comprehensive survey of public property and a system for analysing and diagnosing its management, providing a basis for designating specialised public property institutions, and enabling the establishment and operation of an information system for public property and commodities, while simplifying the procedure for exempting usage fees and lease fees for disaster recovery and relief.
This amendment is intended to adapt the relevant systems to reality. It adds repeat offenders who drove under the influence without a licence to the persons eligible for a driver's licence conditional on the installation of an ignition interlock device. It provides a basis on which police officers, etc. may request the Commissioner General of the Korean National Police Agency to conduct an ad hoc aptitude test on a person whom there is considerable reason to believe is subject to such a test. It also allows administrative fines to be imposed, using unmanned enforcement equipment, for violations of the prohibition on stopping and parking on expressways, etc. <Provided by the Ministry of Government Legislation>
In order to enhance the effectiveness of securitization trust for corporate bonds, etc. conducted by the Korea Credit Guarantee Fund to supply funds to small and medium-sized enterprises, etc., this intends to exclude from the scope of application of obligations such as the submission of a securities registration statement, the asset-backed securities issued by the Korea Credit Guarantee Fund under an asset securitization plan and for which it guarantees the payment of principal and interest. <Provided by the Legislation Office>
○ To revise the relevant provisions to reflect the change of agency names in the Act on Special Cases concerning the Prevention of Illegal Trafficking in Narcotics, etc., following the amendment of the Prosecution Service Act (Act No. 21490, promulgated on March 24, 2026, in force from October 2, 2026).
○ This amendment is intended to revise the relevant provisions to reflect the changes to the names of institutions in the Act on Citizen Participation in Criminal Trials made following the amendment of the Prosecution Service Act (Act No. 21490, promulgated on March 24, 2026, in force on October 2, 2026).