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Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection — Article 43 (Duty of providers of visual or sound Information to keep information)

정보통신망 이용촉진 및 정보보호 등에 관한 법률 제43조

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) An information provider prescribed by Presidential Decree from among those who engage in business providing media products 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 in a way to make it impossible to save or record the harmful media products in a user's computer shall keep relevant information. <Amended on Sep. 15, 2011>

(2) The period during which an information provider under paragraph (1) is obligated to keep relevant information shall be prescribed by Presidential Decree.[This Article Wholly Amended on Jun. 13, 2008]

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