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Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection — Article 42 (Labeling of media products harmful to youths)

정보통신망 이용촉진 및 정보보호 등에 관한 법률 제42조

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.

A person who provides information to the general public purposely to make it public through telecommunications services rendered by a telecommunications business operator (hereinafter referred to as "information provider") and who intends to provide any media product harmful to youths defined in subparagraph 3 of Article 2 of the Youth Protection Act among the media products referred to in subparagraph 2 (e) of Article 2 of that Act, shall put a label indicating that the information is a media product harmful to youths by the labeling method prescribed by Presidential Decree. <Amended on Sep. 15, 2011>[This Article Wholly Amended on Jun. 13, 2008]

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