South Korea Regulatory Crosswalk
Verification required. Claims on this page about South Korean law were compiled on 7 October 2026 from secondary web sources and from memory of the law. No primary legal text was read, and each claim is tagged [Reported], [Recalled], [Conflict] or [Unverified] as explained on the section home page. Check the primary text before relying on any of them. This is not legal advice.
One row per instrument in the South Korea AI Regulatory Hub, with the wiki controls that relate to it and its verification status. The last column is empty until a row has been confirmed against the primary text; record the primary URL and the date you retrieved it there.
The same data is available as a CSV file for GRC tooling: crosswalk.csv.
Legal force sorts each row under one of seven labels, so that law is not mistaken for guidance or for a voluntary framework. The label is this wiki's reading of the sources and carries the same verification caveat as the rest of the row.
| Label | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Binding law | Enacted law or regulation that applies generally in the jurisdiction, including provisions that start on a later date. |
| Binding in scope | Binding only on a sector, a free zone, a state or province, or public bodies. |
| Guidance | Published by a government or regulator, and not binding in itself. |
| Voluntary | A standard, code or framework that an organization chooses to adopt. |
| Proposed | A bill, draft or consultation, or a proposal that lapsed. It is not law. |
| Context | A policy, authority, programme or summary row that sets no rule. |
| Unclear | The sources used do not settle whether it binds. |
| ID | Instrument | Legal force | Type / status | Wiki controls | Verification tag | To verify | Primary URL and retrieval date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR1 | AI Basic Act | Binding law | Binding; effective 22 Jan 2026 | All | Reported | Article numbers; enforcement decree | |
| KR2 | Generative AI duties | Binding law | Binding | AI-CTRL-039 | Reported | Format rules | |
| KR3 | High-impact AI duties | Binding law | Binding | AI-CTRL-037; AI-CTRL-023; AI-CTRL-041 | Conflict | One source says only Level-4 autonomous vehicles currently trigger it | |
| KR4 | High-performance AI (training at 10^26 FLOP or more) | Binding law | Binding | AI-CTRL-037; AI-CTRL-005 | Reported | Notification routes | |
| KR5 | Domestic representative | Binding law | Binding | AI-CTRL-012 | Reported | Thresholds and form | |
| KR6 | Fines and grace period | Binding law | Fines up to about KRW 30 million (about USD 21,000) | AI-CTRL-012 | Reported | Enforcement decree | |
| KR7 | Personal Information Protection Act and PIPC guidance | Binding law | Binding | AI-CTRL-013; AI-CTRL-007; AI-CTRL-035 | Recalled | AI guidance | |
| KR8 | AI Basic Act Support Center | Context | Government support | None | Reported | Contact |