Two ICT Bills Including Improvements to Google and Apple Agent System Passed the National Assembly Plenary Session

Representative Proposal by Kim Young-sik of the People Power Party

[Asia Economy Reporter Minyoung Cha] Kim Young-sik, a member of the People Power Party and the ranking member of the National Assembly's Science, Technology, Information and Broadcasting Communications Committee (photo), announced on the 30th that two ICT bills he co-sponsored have passed the plenary session of the National Assembly.

The first agenda item is an amendment to the Information and Communications Network Act aimed at blocking the use of phone numbers involved in crimes to reduce the rapidly increasing damage from voice phishing scams and smishing, thereby preventing additional illegal activities and criminal damage.

The second agenda item is an amendment to the Telecommunications Business Act designed to enhance the effectiveness of the system by requiring overseas companies such as Google Korea and Apple Korea, which have branches in South Korea, to designate their domestic corporation as the local agent when they have one, in order to solve the problem of overseas companies designating a third-party corporation as their domestic agent to effectively evade legitimate obligations.

Assemblyman Kim Young-sik stated, “Recently, the domestic ICT environment has been threatened and user damage has occurred due to overseas companies, but these companies are only focused on securing profits,” adding, “In an ICT environment that is virtually borderless, we will do our best to protect domestic users and the domestic ICT ecosystem.”

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