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Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection — Article 15 (Improvement of quality of internet services)

정보통신망 이용촉진 및 정보보호 등에 관한 법률 제15조

This English translation is based on the Korean text effective 2025-10-01. The Korean law has since been amended (current version effective 2026-10-02) — check the Korean original.

(1) The Minister of Science and ICT shall formulate and implement policy measures to protect rights and interests of users of Internet services and to ensure improvement of quality of Internet services and stable availability of Internet services. <Amended on Mar. 23, 2013; Jul. 26, 2017>

(2) If deemed necessary for implementing the policy measures under paragraph (1), the Minister of Science and ICT may prescribe and give public notice of the standards for measuring and assessing the quality of Internet services, hearing opinions of organizations of providers and users of information and communications services and others. <Amended on Mar. 23, 2013; Jul. 26, 2017>

(3) Every provider of information and communications services may voluntarily assess the current status of quality of his or her own Internet services in accordance with the standards under paragraph (2) and may notify the results thereof to users.[This Article Wholly Amended on Jun. 13, 2008]

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