AI regulation in South Korea
South Korea's Basic Act on AI Development and Trust took effect on 22 January 2026, confirmed via Korea's National Law Information Center (law.go.kr) — one of the first comprehensive binding AI statutes outside the EU.
AI Framework Act (Basic Act on AI)
Administered by Ministry of Science and ICT.
Not yet mapped to obligation level
AIC has verified South Korea's regulatory position — the status, the instrument and the administering body above are checked against primary sources. What is not here is the clause-by-clause breakdown of what the instrument requires, because we have not done that work for this jurisdiction yet.
We would rather leave that visible than write a plausible-sounding summary nobody checked. If South Korea matters to your organisation, tell us and it moves up the queue.
This page is a general orientation guide built from public sources, not legal advice, and it does not establish that any organisation complies with South Korea's requirements. AIC certifies governance against its own published standard; that is a different question from legal compliance, and neither substitutes for the other. Back to the map.