No. 21159
Promulgation Date 2025-12-02
Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources
ALL
CHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1 (Purpose)
Article 2 (Fundamental concepts)
Article 3 (Definitions)
Article 4 (Responsibilities of the State)
Article 5 (Citizens' right)
Article 6 (Relationship to other Acts)
CHAPTER II ESTABLISHMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE PLANS FOR PRODUCT SAFETY MANAGEMENT
Article 7 (Establishment of comprehensive plans for product safety management)
Article 7-2 (Product Safety Policy Council)
Article 8 (Production of statistics on product incidents)
CHAPTER III MEANS TO ENSURE PRODUCT SAFETY
Article 9 (Safety inspections)
Article 9-2 (Consumers' requests for safety inspections)
Article 9-3 (Safety inspection of imported products)
Article 9-4 (Safety inspection of direct-purchased overseas products)
Article 10 (Recommendations for product recalls)
Article 10-2 (Recommendations for deletion of information on direct-purchased overseas products)
Article 11 (Product recall orders)
Article 12 (Application for cancellation of recommendation)
Article 13 (Business entities’ duty to recall products)
Article 13-2 (Business entities’ duty to report)
Article 13-3 (Investigation of accidents by business entities)
Article 14 (Whistleblowing)
Article 15 (Requests for submission of materials related to product accidents)
Article 15-2 (Publication of findings from safety inspections)
Article 15-3 (Inspection of implementation of product recalls)
CHAPTER IV ESTABLISHMENT OF FOUNDATION FOR PRODUCT SAFETY MANAGEMENT
Article 16 (Establishment and management of product safety information network)
Article 17 (Education, training, and publicity on product safety)
Article 18 (Contributions to product safety research)
Article 19 (Cooperation with organizations related to product safety)
Article 20 (International cooperation)
Article 21 Deleted.
CHAPTER IV-2 KOREAN INSTITUTE OF PRODUCT SAFETY
Article 21-2 (Establishment of Korean Institute of Product Safety)
Article 21-3 (Activities of KIPS)
Article 21-4 (Financial resources for operation)
Article 21-5 (Approval and reporting)
CHAPTER V SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS
Article 22 (Operation of supplementary safety standards)
Article 23 (Duty to maintain confidentiality)
Article 24 (Delegation or entrustment of authority)
Article 25 (Legal fiction as public officials for purposes of penalty provisions)
Article 25-2 (Ambiguities of jurisdiction)
Article 25-3 (Re-examination of regulation)
CHAPTER VI PENALTY PROVISIONS
Article 26 (Penalty provisions)
Article 27 (Administrative fines)
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