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South Korea Basic Act on the Development of AI and Establishment of Trust (Act No. 20676)

The second comprehensive national AI law after the EU's, in force since 22 January 2026: transparency duties for generative AI, obligations for high-impact AI and for models trained above 10^26 FLOP, extraterritorial reach with domestic representatives, and modest fines subject to a grace period.

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Required actions

  • Notify users in advance when a product or service uses generative or high-impact AI, and label AI-generated content that is hard to distinguish from real content - Operators of high-impact AI (employment, credit, healthcare, energy, public services and others) implement risk management, explanation, user protection and human oversight measures and keep records - Operators of high-performance AI establish a risk-management system and report it to the Ministry - Foreign operators above the decree thresholds appoint a domestic representative

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