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Personal Information Protection Act — Article 70 (Penalty provisions)

개인정보 보호법 제70조

This English translation is based on the Korean text effective 2025-10-02. The Korean law has since been amended (current version effective 2026-09-11) — check the Korean original.

Any of the following persons shall be punished by imprisonment with labor for not more than 10 years, or by a fine not exceeding 100 million won: <Amended on Jul. 24, 2015>

1. A person who causes the suspension, paralysis or other severe hardship of work of a public institution by altering or erasing the personal information processed by the public institution for the purpose of disturbing the personal information processing of such public institution;

2. A person who obtains any personal information processed by third parties by fraud or other improper means or methods and provides it to a third party for a profit-making or unjust purpose, and a person who abets or arranges such conduct.

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