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PUBLIC OFFICIAL ELECTION ACT
CHAPTER II VOTING FRANCHISE AND ELECTORAL ELIGIBILITY
조문단위인쇄
 Article 19 (Persons Ineligible for Election)
Any of the following persons as of the election day shall be ineligible for election: <Amended by Act No. 12149, Dec. 30, 2013; Act No. 12393, Feb. 13, 2014>
1. A person who falls under Article 18 (1) 1, 3, or 4;
2. A person who is sentenced to imprisonment without prison labor or a heavier punishment and whose sentence is not invalidated;
3. A person whose eligibility for election is suspended or forfeited by a court judgment or by any other Act;
4. Any of the following persons who committed a crime under Article 166 of the National Assembly Act (including persons upon whom a sentence imposed has become invalidated):
(a) A person in whose case five years have not passed yet since a sentence of a fine not exceeding five million won or any heavier punishment, imposed upon the person, became final and conclusive;
(b) A person in whose case ten years have not passed yet since a sentence of suspension of execution of a punishment, imposed upon the person, became final and conclusive;
(c) A person in whose case ten years have not passed yet since the person was finally and conclusively exempted from the execution of a sentence of imprisonment with prison labor, imposed upon the person, or since the execution of such sentence was completed or remitted;
5. A person in whose case ten years have not passed yet since the sentence of a fine, imposed upon the person for the commission of a crime under Article 230 (6), became final and conclusive (including a person upon whom such sentence imposed became invalidated).