A bill amending the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) has moved from committee referral to committee review as of 26 August 2026. As drafted, it would add a new Article 34(4) letting the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) set a deadline and formally require a personal information controller (개인정보처리자) to carry out breach-response measures where the controller has failed to act, or where its response to a personal-data breach (유출등) is judged inadequate. The bill responds to cases where breach notices and remedial steps were reportedly insufficient, leaving affected data subjects without adequate protection. This is a pending bill under committee review — it is not yet law, and no effective date, threshold, or penalty has been set.
What this means for you
- No action is required yet. The provision has not passed and carries no effective date, threshold, or penalty at this stage — treat it as a bill to track, not a compliance duty.
- It applies to all personal information controllers, without a size or revenue threshold specified in the bill. If enacted as drafted, it would not be limited to large operators; any controller subject to PIPA's existing breach-notification duty could be ordered to take specific corrective measures on a PIPC-set timeline.
- Review your internal breach-response playbook now. The bill's stated rationale is that some controllers' post-breach notices and remedial actions have been slow or inadequate. If you handle Korean personal data, confirm your incident-response process can produce timely, substantive remediation — not just notification — since that is the gap this bill targets.
- Watch for committee progress. A provision like this can stall, advance, or be folded into a broader PIPA revision. Re-check status before assuming either that it will pass as written or that it will not move at all.
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