A bill amending the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection has moved from committee referral to committee review as of 2026-09-08. The bill would add a new Article 43-2 prohibiting the damage, forgery, or alteration of the AI-generation-fact labels that AI businesses are already required to display under Article 31 of the AI Framework Act, and would impose a parallel duty on information and communications service providers of a certain scale or above to support the display of those labels and take measures to prevent their tampering. A violation would carry an administrative fine of up to KRW 10 million under new Article 76(3)(4-2) and (4-3). The bill is still pending committee review; no effective date has been set, and the enforcement decree has not yet defined the "certain scale" threshold for covered service providers.
What this means for you
- If you already label AI-generated content under AI Framework Act Art. 31, note that this bill would add a companion duty not to have that label stripped, forged, or altered as content moves through distribution — track this bill rather than treating your Art. 31 compliance as the end of the story.
- If you operate an information/communications service that distributes AI-generated content in Korea, watch for the enforcement decree that will set the "certain scale" threshold; the duty to support label display and prevent tampering would only reach providers above that line.
- No effective date exists yet. The bill is in committee review, not in force. Do not build a compliance timeline around it until it clears committee and a promulgation/effective date is set.
- Penalty exposure is separate from existing AI Framework Act penalties. The KRW 10 million administrative fine attaches to the new labeling-integrity duty, not to the underlying labeling requirement itself.
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