Insights
2026-10-10 · 6 min
Korea's National Assembly passed bill no. 2221614 on 1 October 2026. It is not yet promulgated and takes effect six months after promulgation, around mid-April 2027. Your own Korean entity comes first, a third-party corporation only where none exists, and the fines fall on the operator.
2026-10-06 · 3 min
On 6 October 2026 Korea's culture ministry published the corrective order that follows its 10 September pre-notice, again served by public notice. It came eight days after the comment window closed, and it sets a deadline of 27 October.
2026-09-10 · 3 min
On 10 September 2026 Korea's culture ministry published another pre-notice of a corrective order over probabilistic-item disclosure, served by public notice because the foreign publisher had no Korean address. It is the seventh such notice since December 2025, and the series now has a cadence.
2026-08-18 · 4 min
An amendment in force on 20 August 2026 adds new grounds for refusing a virtual-asset service provider filing — foreign convictions now disqualify, major shareholders enter the review, and compliance readiness itself becomes a gate. It is the first of two dates: a separate cross-border registration regime follows on 3 December.
2026-07-31 · 3 min
An amendment to the AI Framework Act and its enforcement decree took effect on 21 July 2026. The changes are domestic-access policy — AI-vulnerable groups, usage-cost support, research institutes. The domestic-agent duty and its thresholds are untouched, and the cadence is the real signal.
2026-07-17 · 4 min
Today, Korea's game-sector domestic agent can be any party with a Korean address — no professional licence, and one agent may act for several foreign publishers. A pending amendment would change that for companies that already have a Korean subsidiary. Update, 10 October 2026: a merged version of the amendment passed on 1 October and awaits promulgation.
2026-07-14 · 3 min
The Game Industry Act's domestic-agent duty attaches at KRW 1 trillion in revenue or 1,000 average daily Korean downloads. For a localized title on the Korean charts, the practical answer is usually yes — and the closing of the first identification sweep does not change that.
2026-07-14 · 4 min
Since March 2024 the odds for paid probabilistic items must be displayed inside the game and in its advertising, in a prescribed form. The public enforcement record shows exactly which gaps get written up.
2026-07-14 · 3 min
A passed filing date does not close a corrective order; the matter stays open on the record. The orderly response is a short sequence — read the order as posted, designate an agent, bring the disclosure into line, file the result late.
2026-07-14 · 3 min
Korea's first identification sweep closed on 10 July 2026 with 80 of 81 obligated companies designated, 14 confirmed exempt, and 24 voluntary designations. The list is settled; the process is not — and the next wave has a predictable profile.
2026-07-14 · 3 min
An agent located in Korea, with a Korean address, authorized to receive official notices and answer the regulator — designated in writing, by administrative filing. What it changes is the channel: a posting on a public board becomes a letter to a named contact.
2026-07-12 · 4 min
Korea's newest local-representative regime took effect in January 2026 with a KRW 10 billion AI-service-revenue trigger that reaches well beyond the largest platforms. Here is what to check first.
2026-07-08 · 3 min
When a regulator serves a corrective order by public notice because there is no Korean address to send it to, that is not weak enforcement. It is enforcement a foreign company cannot answer.
2026-07-05 · 3 min
One country now runs at least five separate domestic-representative regimes, each with its own regulator, threshold, and effective date. Sorting out which ones apply is the first compliance task, not the last.