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Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection — Article 72 (Penalty provisions)

정보통신망 이용촉진 및 정보보호 등에 관한 법률 제72조

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) Any of the following persons shall be punished by imprisonment with labor for up to 3 years or by a fine not exceeding 30 million won: <Amended on Jan. 20, 2015; Mar. 27, 2015; Feb. 4, 2020; Jan. 23, 2024>

1. Deleted; <Mar. 22, 2016>1-2. A person who transmits to a youth any information containing advertisement of a media product harmful to youths or displays such information openly without taking any measures to restrict access by youths, in violation of Article 42-2;

2. A person who collects another person's information in violation of Article 49-2 (1);2-2. A person who transmits any advertising information, in violation of Article 50-8;

3. A person who conducts affairs without filing for registration under Article 53 (1);

4. A person who lends a loan to someone, or offers, intermediates, recommends, or advertise such loan by committing any of the following acts:(a) Conducting, or engaging someone to conduct vicariously, a transaction through telecommunications billing services by pretending sale or supply of goods or services or billing more than an actual selling price;(b) Engaging a user of telecommunications billing services to purchase or use certain goods or services through telecommunications billing services and then purchasing, at a discount, the goods or services purchased or used by the user of telecommunications billing services;

5. A person who divulges to another person any secret he or she has learned while performing his or her duties or uses such secret for any purpose other than performance of his or her duties, in violation of Article 66.

(3) Deleted. <Feb. 22, 2016>[This Article Wholly Amended on Jun. 13, 2008]

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