(1) The terms used in this Act are defined as follows: <Amended on Jan. 29, 2004; Jan. 26, 2007; Dec. 21, 2007; Jun. 13, 2008; Mar. 22, 2010; May 28, 2014; Jun. 9, 2020>
1. The term "information and communications network" means an information and communications system for collecting, processing, storing, searching, transmitting, or receiving information by using telecommunications equipment defined in subparagraph 2 of Article 2 of the Telecommunications Business Act or telecommunications equipment, computers and applied computer technology;
2. The term "information and communications services" means telecommunications services defined in subparagraph 6 of Article 2 of the Telecommunications Business Act and services providing information or intermediating the provision of information by using such telecommunications services;
3. The term "provider of information and communications services" means a telecommunications business operator defined in subparagraph 8 of Article 2 of the Telecommunications Business Act and any other person who provides information or intermediates to provide information commercially by utilizing services provided by a telecommunications business operator;
4. The term "user" means a person who uses information and communications services rendered by providers of information and communications services;
5. The term "electronic document" means data prepared and transmitted, received, or stored electronically in a standardized document by a device capable of processing information, such as a computer;
6. Deleted; <Feb. 4, 2020>
7. The term "cyber security incident" means an event resulting from an attack on an information and communications network or an information system related to such network by any of the following:(a) Means of hacking, computer virus, logic bomb, electronic mail bomb, denial of service, high-power electromagnetic wave, etc.;(b) Means of installing, in an information and communications network or an information system related thereto, a program, technical device, etc. that enables to circumvent the normal protection and authentication processes of the information and communications network and makes access thereto possible;
8. Deleted; <Jun. 22, 2015>
9. The term "message board" means, regardless of its name, a computer program or a technical device with which users can publish information in the form of a code, letters, voice, sound, image, motion picture, or any other form purposely to disclose the information to the public by using an information and communications network;
10. The term "telecommunications billing services" means information and communications services to perform the following business activities:(a) Business activities charging and collecting prices for goods or services sold or provided by a third person (hereinafter referred to as "goods or services") together with charges for the telecommunications services provided;(b) Business activities transmitting and receiving information on transactions electronically so that prices for goods or services sold or provided by a third person can be billed or collected together with charges for the telecommunications services provided by under item (a), or settling, on behalf of another person, or intermediating payments for such prices;
11. The term "provider of telecommunications billing services" means a person who provides telecommunications billing services after being registered under Article 53;
12. The term "user of telecommunications billing services" means a person who purchases or uses goods or services by using telecommunications billing services rendered by a provider of telecommunications billing services;
13. The term "electronic transmission medium" means a medium transmitting codes, letters, voices, images, or motion pictures to addressees in an electronic form, such as an electronic document, via information and communications networks.
(2) Except as provided in paragraph (1), definitions of the terms used in this Act shall be governed by the Framework Act on Intelligent Informatization. <Amended on Jun. 13, 2008; Mar. 23, 2013; Jun. 9, 2020>