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Enforcement Decree of the Personal Information Protection Act — Article 43 (Correction, and erasure of personal information)

개인정보 보호법 시행령 제43조

This English translation is based on the Korean text effective 2025-03-13. The Korean law has since been amended (current version effective 2026-09-11) — check the Korean original.

(1) A data subject who intends to request a personal information controller to correct or erasure his or her own personal information pursuant to Article 36 (1) of the Act shall submit a request in the manner and following the procedure determined by the personal information controller. In such cases, Article 41 (2) shall apply mutatis mutandis where the personal information controller determines the manner and procedure for requesting the correction or erasure of personal information; and "access" shall be construed as "correction or erasure". <Amended on Oct. 17, 2017>

(2) Upon receipt of a request to correct or erasure personal information pursuant to Article 36 (1) of the Act, a personal information controller who processes personal information files provided by other personal information controller shall correct or erase the relevant personal information as requested; or shall, without delay, notify the personal information controller who has provided the relevant personal information of the request to correct or erasure the personal information, and take necessary measures based on the result of such processing. <Amended on Oct. 17, 2017>

(3) A personal information controller shall inform the relevant data subject of the fact that he or she has duly corrected or erased the relevant personal information pursuant to Article 36 (2) of the Act within 10 days from the receipt of a request to correct or erasure personal information under paragraph (1) or (2); otherwise, if the erasure of personal information is denied because it falls under the proviso of Article 36 (1) of the Act, the personal information controller shall serve the data subject with the Personal Information Correction or erasure Outcome Notice, stating the fact and grounds for the denial and how to appeal, in the form determined and publicly notified by determined and publicly notified by the Protection Commission. <Amended on Mar. 23, 2013; Nov. 19, 2014; Jul. 26, 2017; Oct. 17, 2017; Aug. 4, 2020>

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