No debt collector shall commit any of the following acts in connection with debt collection: <Amended by Act No. 12228, Jan. 14, 2014; Act No. 12594, May 20, 2014>
| 1. | Committing assault and battery on, threatening, arresting, or confining a debtor or his/her related person, or using fraud or physical force upon a debtor or his/her related person; |
| 2. | Seriously disturbing privacy or peace in business by repeatedly or at nighttime (referring to the duration beginning at nine O'clock in the evening and ending at eight O'clock the next morning; hereinafter the same shall apply) paying visits to a debtor or his/her related person without any justifiable reason to arouse fear or apprehension; |
| 3. | Seriously disturbing privacy or peace in business by repeatedly or at nighttime delivering words, writings, sound, images, or goods by phone or any other means without any justifiable reason to arouse fear or apprehension; |
| 4. | Informing any person other than a debtor (including a guarantor, notwithstanding subparagraph 2 of Article 2) of untrue facts with regard to a debt; |
| 5. | Seriously disturbing privacy or peace in business by coercing a debtor or his/her related person to prepare money for repaying a debt by borrowing money or in any similar way to arouse fear or apprehension; |
| 6. | Seriously disturbing privacy or peace in business by demanding any person, other than a debtor, who does not owe any legal obligation to repay a debt on behalf of a debtor to arouse fear or apprehension; |
| 7. | Unnecessarily informing any person other than a debtor of debt-related matters, such as the amount of debts, the period of default at a place related to the debtor’s private life or work, such as a debtor’s home and workplace where a number of people are gathered. |