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Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection — Article 50-7 (Restrictions on posting of advertising information for profit-making purpose)

정보통신망 이용촉진 및 정보보호 등에 관한 법률 제50조의7

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) Where any person intends to post advertising information for profit-making purpose on a website, he or she shall obtain prior consent from the operator or the manager of a website; provided, in cases of a message board to which any person can have easy access without special authority and on which any person can post his or her message, he or she need not obtain prior consent.

(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), where the operator or the manager of a website explicitly expresses his or her intention to refuse to post a notice or to revoke his or her prior consent, no person who intends to post advertising information for profit-making purpose shall post advertising information for profit-making purpose.

(3) The operator or the manager of a website may take measures, such as deletion of advertising information for profit-making purpose posted in violation of paragraph (1) or (2).[This Article Wholly Amended on May 28, 2014]

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