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South Korea's AI Basic Act takes effect with a one-year grace period on penalties

High-impact AI duties, generative AI labelling, lifecycle safety obligations for large-scale models and a domestic representative requirement for foreign providers are now in force; fines begin in January 2027.

RegulationSouth Korea22 Jan 2026

The second comprehensive national AI law after the EU's ties frontier safety duties to a compute threshold set by decree and gives the ministry a point of contact with foreign developers.

What to do: foreign providers above the thresholds should appoint the representative and map their safety framework to the Act's lifecycle duties before penalties begin.