The terms used in this Act are defined as follows: <Amended on Mar. 22, 2010; Feb. 3, 2015; Feb. 3, 2015; Jun. 9, 2020; Oct. 19, 2021>
1. The term "location information" means information about a place where a portable object or an individual exists or has existed at a certain time, whose position is located by using telecommunications equipment facilities or telecommunications line equipment and facilities prescribed in subparagraph 2 or 3 of Article 2 of the Telecommunications Business Act;
2. The term "personal location information" means the location information regarding a particular person (including information readily combinable with other information to track the location of a particular person even though location information alone is not sufficient to identify the location of such person);
3. The term "subject of personal location information" means a person identified with personal location information;
4. The term "data verifying the collection of location information" means data regarding a person who has requested the collection of location information and the date, time, and methods of collection thereof (excluding location information);
5. The term "data verifying the use and provision of location information" means data regarding the person receiving location information, the channel of acquisition thereof, and the date, time, and methods of use and provision thereof (excluding location information);
6. The term "location information business" means engaging in the business of collecting location information and providing such information to location-based service providers;
7. The term "location-based service business" means engaging in the business of providing services based on location information (hereinafter referred to as "location-based services");
8. The term "location information system" means a combination of computer hardware, software, database, and human resources organically interlinked through information and communications networks defined in Article 2 (1) 1 of the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection to collect, store, analyze, use, and provide location information for location information business and location-based service business.