A bill to amend the Act on the Development of Artificial Intelligence and Establishment of Trust (the AI Framework Act) has been introduced in the National Assembly. The bill is addressed to AI business operators — including developers and companies providing AI-based services — and would require compliance with AI-related obligations to be set out in the amendment. No threshold, effective date, or penalty has been specified in the bill text available at this stage, and the amendment has not yet been enacted.
What this means for you
- Nothing is in force yet. This is a bill, not a binding rule. No new duty, threshold, or penalty currently applies as a result of this filing.
- Track it if you offer an AI service reaching Korean users. Because the addressee class ("AI business operators — developers, service providers") mirrors the AI Framework Act's existing domestic-agent regime, any thresholds or obligations later added by this amendment are likely to layer onto — not replace — duties you may already face under Article 36 of the AI Framework Act.
- Do not assume a threshold or date until the bill text specifies one. The current record contains no numeric trigger, no effective date, and no penalty figure. Treat any such detail you see reported elsewhere as unconfirmed until it appears in the bill or enforcement decree itself.
- Revisit your AI Framework Act position now, independent of this bill. If you have not already checked your AI-service revenue and domestic-user figures against the existing KRW 10 billion / domestic-user tests, do so — this amendment is a signal that the regime is still being actively shaped, not a reason to wait.
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