Proposed Bill: Partial Amendment to the Telecommunications Business Act

Proposed by Rep. Lee Jeong-heon (Democratic Party of Korea)

  • This bill would require mobile operating system providers, such as Apple and Google, to provide competing services with equal access to smartphone hardware and software functionalities.

Proposed Bill: Partial Amendment to the Telecommunications Business Act

Proposed by Rep. Lee Hai-min (Rebuilding Korea Party)

  • This bill would expand the scope of prohibited dark pattern practices to include “creating or operating user environments that interfere with or distort users’ decision-making,” with the aim of strengthening oversight of dark patterns and enhancing user protection measures.

Pending Bill: Partial Amendment to the Distribution Industry Development Act

Proposed by Rep. Kim Dong-ah (Democratic Party of Korea)

  • This bill would permit superstores and quasi-superstores to offer unlimited online delivery services, regardless of existing mandatory closure and operating-hour restrictions.

Promulgated Bill: Telecommunications Business Act

Competent Authority: Ministry of Science and ICT, Korea Media and Communications Commission

  • This promulgated bill prohibits the manufacture, importation, distribution, sale and rental of caller ID spoofing devices, requires mobile carriers to enroll all users in a subscription restriction service and mandates that any person who involuntarily becomes the largest shareholder of a mobile carrier obtain approval from the minister of Science and ICT.

Administrative Announcement: Partial Amendment to the Framework Act on the Development of Artificial Intelligence and the Creation of a Foundation for Trust

Competent Authority: Ministry of Science and ICT

  • The draft amendment would set out detailed standards, with the aim of expanding the adoption of AI in the public sector, supporting the establishment of AI research institutes, promoting AI startups and improving access to AI for AI-vulnerable groups.

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