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STATUTES

THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA

Volume

JUVENILE PROTECTION ACT

Act No. 5297, Mar. 7, 1997

Amended by Act No. 5529, Feb. 28, 1998

Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999

Act No. 5942, Mar. 31, 1999

Act No. 6146, Jan. 12, 2000

Act No. 6261, Feb. 3, 2000

Act No. 6460, Apr. 7, 2001

Act No. 6479, May. 24, 2001

Act No. 6721, Aug. 26, 2002

Act No. 7161, Jan. 29, 2004

Act No. 7187, Mar. 11, 2004

Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005

CHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1 (Purpose)

The purpose of this Act is to regulate the distribution of harmful media materials and drugs, etc. among juveniles and their access to harmful

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entertainment establishments, and protect and rescue them from the injurious environment including harmful acts such as the abuse of and violence against them in order to help the juveniles grow into the persons of sound character. <Amended by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999>

Article 2 (Definitions)

The definitions of terms used in this Act shall be as follows: <Amended by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999; Act No. 5942, Mar. 31, 1999; Act No. 6146, Jan. 12, 2000; Act No. 6460, Apr. 7, 2001; Act No. 6479, May 24, 2001; Act No. 7161, Jan. 29, 2004; Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

1. The term "juvenile" means any person below full 19 years old: Provided, That any person who faces with January 1 of the year in which he becomes full 19 years old shall be excluded;

2. The term "media materials" means the materials falling under any of subparagraphs of Article 7;

3. The term "media materials harmful to juveniles" means the materials falling under any of the following items:

(a) Media materials which the Juvenile Committee decides and confirms as injurious to juveniles and puts the decision and confirmation on public notice under the provisions of Articles 8 and 12; and

(b) Media materials which deliberative organs resolve or decide

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(hereinafter referred to as the "decision") as hurtful to juveniles and then the Juvenile Committee puts on public notice under the provisions of the proviso of Article 8 (1) or the Juvenile Committee puts on public notice after confirming them as hurtful to juveniles under the provisions of Article 12;

4. The term "drugs, etc. harmful to juveniles" means the drugs (hereinafter referred to as the "drugs harmful to juveniles") falling under (i) through (vii) of the following item (a), which are identified as hurtful to juveniles, and materials (hereinafter referred to as the "materials harmful to juveniles") falling under (i) or (ii) of the following item (b), which are identified as harmful to juveniles:

(a) The drugs harmful to juveniles:

(i) Alcoholic liquors under the Liquor Tax Act;

(ii) Cigarettes under the Tobacco Business Act;

(iii) Narcotics, psychotropic substances and hemp under the Act on the Control of Narcotics, etc.;

(iv) and (v) Deleted; <by Act No. 6146, Jan. 12, 2000>

(vi) Hallucinogen under the Toxic Chemicals Control Act; and

(vii) Drugs which

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are feared to seriously damage juveniles mentally and physically if the use of them by the juveniles is not restricted, such as other drugs which act on the central nerve to cause the habit, toxicity and tolerance, etc., harmfully affecting human bodies, and which the Juvenile Committee identifies and publicly notifies after hearing the opinions from the related agencies pursuant to the standards as prescribed by the Presidential Decree; and

(b) The materials harmful to juveniles:

(i) The sex-related materials, such as sex apparatus, which inspire juveniles to act lasciviously and the Juvenile Committee identifies as materials which are feared to seriously damage juveniles mentally and physically unless their use is restricted and then puts on public notice according to the standards set by the Presidential Decree; and

(ii) Toys, etc. which foster the lasciviousness, violence and speculation, etc. among juveniles and the Juvenile Committee identifies as materials which are feared to seriously damage juveniles mentally and physically unless their use is restricted and then puts on public notice according to the standards set by the Presidential Decree;

5. The term "entertainment establishments harmful to juveniles" means the establishments falling under any of the following item (a) (hereinafter referred to as the "establishments banned from employing juveniles or giving them access"), which are identified as harmful to juveniles if they are given

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access or employed and other establishments falling under any of the following item (b) (hereinafter referred to as the "establishments banned from employing juveniles"), which are identified as permitted to give juveniles access but as banned from employing them. In this case, actual business acts performed by them shall be the standards for classifying the establishments regardless of their license, permission, registration and report which are required by other Acts and subordinate statutes:

(a) The establishments banned from employing juveniles or giving them access:

(i) Restaurants prescribed by the Presidential Decree from among the restaurants under the Food Sanitation Act;

(ii) Song-practice establishments and video-show establishments prescribed by the Presidential Decree from among such establishments as prescribed by the Sound Records, Video Products, and Game Software Act;

(iii) Dance-teaching establishments and dance establishments under the Installation and Utilization of Sports Facilities Act;

(iv) Speculative business establishments under the Act on Special Cases concerning Regulation and Punishment of Speculative Acts, etc.;

(v) Business with

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suc principal purposes as intermediating te mutual voice conversations or voice and video conversations between the unspecified persons by equipping itself with telemmunications facilities: Provided, That the business which intermediates the communications under other Acts such as the Telecommunications Business Act shall be excluded; and

(vi) Business identified harmful to juveniles if they are given acss to or employed thereby, such as the business of manufacring, producing and distributing the media materials harmful to juveniles, drugs harmful to juveniles and materials harmful to juveniles, and which the Juvenile Committee identifies and publicly notifies pursuant to the standards set by the Presidential Decree; and

(b) The establishments banned from employing juveniles:

(i) Restaurants prescribed by the Presidential Decree from among the restaurants under the Food Sanitation Act;

(ii) Lodging establishments, barbershops and public bathhouses prescribed by the Presidential Decree from among the business establishments under the Public Health Control Act;

(iii) The businesses as prescribed by the Presidential Decree from among the video rental business and the video little theater business, game services business, or the business of complex distribution and provision under the Sound Records, Video Products, and Game Software Act;

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(iv) Deleted; <by Act No. 7161, Jan. 29, 2004>

(v) The toxic material manufacturing business, the toxic material sales business and the toxic material handling business under the Toxic Chemicals Control Act;

(vi) The comic-book rental business renting comic books after collecting membership fees or other charges; and

(vii) The business of manufacturing, producing and distributing the media materials harmful to juveniles, drugs harmful to juveniles, and materials harmful to juveniles, and other businesses identified as harmful to juveniles if such businesses employ them, and which the Juvenile Committee determines and publicly notifies pursuant to the standards set by the Presidential Decree;

6. The term "distribution" means the act of selling (including street sales, vending machines and communications sales; hereinafter the same shall apply), renting, circulating, broadcasting (including the composite cable broadcasting; hereinafter the same shall apply), showing in performance establishments, screening, exhibiting, displaying, advertising the media materials and drugs or the act of providing the media materials and drugs for the purpose of audio-visual or their utilization or the act of printing, replicating or importing them for that purpose; and

7. The term "juvenile

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violence" means the act of causing physical and mental damages to juveniles through violence.

Article 3 (Family Role)

Any person, who exercises his parental power over a juvenile or any other person, who cares for him on behalf of his parents (hereinafter referred to as the "person having parental power"), shall make necessary efforts to keep juveniles from contacting or frequenting the media materials, drugs and establishments which are all harmful to juveniles, and protect them from the juvenile violence and abuse (hereinafter referred to as the "environment harmful to juveniles"), and when juveniles intend to use the media materials and drugs harmful to them and visit establishments harmful to them, the person having parental power shall immediately restrain them from doing so. <Amended by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999>

Article 4 (Responsibility of Society)

(1) Anybody shall make efforts to keep juveniles away from the environments harmful to them and when they find any juveniles using the media materials and drugs harmful to them or engaging in violence and abuse, they shall restrain them from doing so and lead them not to do so, and when they find the media materials and drugs harmful to juveniles distributed among them, any juveniles employed by establishments harmful to them and any juveniles suffering violence and abuse, they shall make efforts necessary to protect them by reporting or filing complaints with relevant agencies, etc. under Article 21 (3). <Amended by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999>

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(2) Any person who carries on the business of distributing the media materials and drugs harmful to juveniles and any other person who carries on the business of running establishments harmful to juveniles as well as organizations and associations created by them shall make efforts of their own to keep the media materials and drugs harmful to juveniles from distributed among them and establishments harmful to juveniles from employing them and allowing them to frequent such establishments.

Article 5 (Duties of State and Local Governments)

(1) The State shall formulate and implement policies necessary to clean up the environment harmful to juveniles for the purpose of protecting them and local governments shall make efforts necessary to protect the juveniles from the environments harmful to them under their jurisdictional areas.

(2) The State and local governments, keeping the fact in mind that the advent of new kinds of the media materials and drugs following the development of electronics and communications technologies and medicine is feared to damage juveniles physically and mentally, shall make efforts necessary to support the development of new technologies and research projects, and build a cooperative system with other countries to protect juveniles from such media materials and drugs.

(3) The State and local governments may encourage independent activities by juvenile-related organizations and the private sector to monitor the environment harmful to juveniles and file complaints

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against it and provide necessary support for such activities. The State and local governments also may reflect recommendations from such organizations and the private sector in shaping relevant policies.

(4) In regulating the environment harmful to juveniles to protect them, the State and local governments shall faithfully perform their duties. <Newly Inserted by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999>

Article 6 (Relationship with Other Acts)

In imposing a criminal punishment in relation to the regulation of the environment harmful to juveniles, this Act shall prevail over other Acts. <Amended by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999>

CHAPTER II REGULATION OF DISTRIBUTION OF MEDIA MATERIALS HARMFUL TO JUVENILES

Article 7 (Scope of Media Materials)

The term "media materials" referred to in this Act means what falls under any of the following subparagraphs: <Amended by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999; Act No. 6479, May 24, 2001; Act No. 7161, Jan. 29, 2004; Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

1. Sound records, video products and game software under the Sound Records, Video Products, and Game Software Act;

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2. Deleted; <by Act No. 6479, May 24, 2001>

3. Movie, play, music, dance, and other entertainment programs under the Public Performance Act and the Promotion of the Motion Pictures Industry Act;

4. Encoding, literary words, sound or image information through telecommunications under the Telecommunications Business Act and the Framework Act on Telecommunications;

5. Broadcasting programs under the Broadcasting Act: Provided, That report broadcast programs shall be excluded;

6. General daily newspapers (excluding newspapers disseminating reports, comments and public opinions on politics, economy and society), special daily newspapers (excluding newspapers specializing in the fields of economy, industry, science, or religion), general weekly newspapers (excluding newspapers specializing in the fields of politics or economy), special weekly newspapers (excluding newspapers specializing in the fields of politics, economy, industry, science, current affairs, or religion), and magazines (excluding magazines specializing in the fields of politics, economy, industry, science, current affairs, or religion) under the Registration, etc. of Periodicals Act and other publications prescribed by the Presidential Decree (hereinafter referred to as the "periodicals, etc."), and caricature books, picture albums, pictorials, and novels, etc., electronic publications and others prescribed

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by the Presidential Decree from among publications other than periodicals under the same Act;

7. Signboards, stand-up signboards, posters, leaflets, and other similar commercial advertisements under the Outdoor Advertisements, etc. Control Act, and commercial advertisements which are contained, inserted, exhibited and included by other means in the media materials under subparagraphs 1 through 6; and

8. Other media materials identified by the Presidential Decree as materials which are feared to damage juveniles mentally and physically.

Article 8 (Deliberation and Determination of Media Materials Harmful to Juveniles)

(1) The Juvenile Committee established under Article 27 (hereinafter referred to as the "Juvenile Committee") shall deliberate whether or not any of the media materials referred to in the provisions of Article 7 is harmful to juveniles and, if any of the media materials is identified as harmful to juveniles, the Juvenile Committee shall determine that the materials are harmful to juveniles: Provided, That the same shall not apply to the case where there is any other organ that is authorized to deliberate the ethics and healthiness of the media materials concerned (hereinafter referred to as the "deliberative organ") under the provisions of other Acts and subordinate statutes. <Amended by Act No. 7161, Jan. 29, 2004; Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

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(2) Where each deliberative organ fails to deliberate whether or not the media materials in question are harmful to juveniles, the Juvenile Committee may, when it deems it necessary to protect juveniles, ask each deliberative organ to deliberate the media materials in question. <Amended by Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

(3) With regard to the media materials falling under each of the following subparagraphs, the Juvenile Committee may deliberate whether or not they are harmful to juveniles and identify them as harmful to juveniles, notwithstanding the proviso of paragraph (1) of this Article: <Amended by Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

1. Media materials requested by each deliberative organ referred to in the proviso of paragraph (1); and

2. Media materials which are distributed without going through deliberation of each deliberative organ referred to in the proviso of paragraph (1) about whether or not they are harmful to juveniles.

(4) The Juvenile Committee or each deliberative organ, where it judges the media materials contain contents that are banned from distribution by the Criminal Act and other Acts and subordinate statutes as a result of deliberation, shall ask related administrative agencies for criminal punishment or administrative disposition before deciding on the harmfulness of the media materials to juveniles: Provided, That the same shall not

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apply to the case where each deliberative organ has separate procedures under the corresponding Acts and subordinate statutes. <Newly Inserted by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999; Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

(5) With regard to the media materials which are produced and published for persons other than juveniles in light of the purpose of producing and publishing them and those whose distribution among juveniles is impossible to be blocked by identifying each of the media materials as harmful to juveniles, the Juvenile Committee or each deliberative organ, upon receiving a request or ex officio, may specifically indicate kinds, titles and contents of the media materials in question and identify them as harmful to juveniles. <Newly Inserted by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999; Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

(6) Other necessary matters such as the deliberation and determination methods of the Juvenile Committee, shall be prescribed by the Presidential Decree. <Amended by Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

Article 9 (Rating, etc.)

(1) With regard to media materials which the Juvenile Committee and each deliberative organ do not deliberate and identify as harmful to juveniles when they deliberate and identify them under the provisions of Article 8, the Juvenile Committee and each deliberative organ may, when they deem necessary, rate the media materials concerned taking into consideration the degree of their harmfulness to juveniles, the ages of juveniles utilizing

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them, their characteristics and hours and places of their utilization. <Amended by Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

(2) The Juvenile Committee may ask each deliberative organ to rate the media materials in question under paragraph (1) when it deliberates and decide whether or not they are harmful to juveniles. <Amended by Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

(3) Necessary matters concerning media materials subject to rating, kinds of rating and methods of rating under paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be prescribed by the Presidential Decree.

Article 10 (Criteria for Deliberation of Media Materials Harmful to Juveniles)

(1) In performing the deliberation in accordance with the provisions of Article 8, the Juvenile Committee and each deliberative organ shall identify the media material in question as harmful to juveniles, in the case where the media materials in question fall under any of the following subparagraphs: <Amended by Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

1. Voluptuous or obscene materials which may stimulate sexual desire of juveniles;

2. Materials which may cause violence and brutality of juveniles or incite them to commit a crime;

3. Materials which may stimulate or beautify the exercise of all sorts of

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violence including rape and the abuse drugs;

4. Materials which are anti-social and non-ethical and that may hamper the cultivation of fine character and civic consciousness of juveniles; and

5. Materials which are feared to affect harmfully the mental and physical health of juveniles.

(2) In specifically applying the criteria referred to in paragraph (1), the generally accepted ideas of society shall be based, and literary, artistic, educational, medical and scientific aspects as well as characteristics of the media materials concerned shall be taken into account.

(3) Necessary matters concerning the specific criteria for deliberating whether or not any media materials are harmful to juveniles and its application shall be prescribed by the Presidential Decree.

Article 11 (Adjustment of Particulars of Deliberation)

Where there is a wide difference between each deliberative organ over the same media materials as a result of their deliberation in relation to the protection of juveniles, the Juvenile Committee may ask for an adjustment of the contents of deliberation and each deliberative organ shall comply with the request unless special reasons exist for not complying with it. <Amended by Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

Article 12 (Self-Regulation of Harmful Media Materials)

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(1) Any producer, any publisher, any distributor of the media materials or any organization concerned with the media materials may autonomously decide whether or not their media materials are harmful to juveniles and ask the Juvenile Committee or each deliberative organ to confirm the contents of his or its decision. <Amended by Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

(2) The Juvenile Committee or each deliberative organ, upon receiving the request referred to in paragraph (1), where the contents of the decision are appropriate as a result of deliberation, shall confirm the contents of the decision, and the Juvenile Committee, where it is deemed necessary, may commission its authority to confirm to each deliberative organ. <Amended by Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

(3) Where the Juvenile Committee or each deliberative organ makes the confirmation under paragraph (2), the media materials concerned may be sticked with indications showing the completion of the confirmation. <Amended by Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

(4) Any producer, any publisher, any distributor of the media materials or any organization concerned with the media materials may stick indications on the media materials that they are harmful to juveniles when he or it judges the products harmful to juveniles under the provisions of Articles 14 and 15 without any decision by the Juvenile Committee or each deliberative organ. <Amended by Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

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(5) The Juvenile Committee or each deliberative organ shall, when it finds any media materials sticked autonomously with indications that they are harmful to juveniles under paragraph (4), decide whether or not the media materials concerned are harmful to juveniles. <Amended by Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

(6) The media materials, on which the producer, the publisher, the distributor of the media materials or the organization concerned with the media materials has stuck indications that his or its products are harmful to juveniles under paragraph (4), shall be deemed harmful to juveniles under this Act until the Juvenile Committee or each deliberative organ makes a final decision. <Amended by Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

(7) Necessary matters concerning procedures and methods for the decision on whether or not any media materials are harmful to juveniles and the confirmation of the decision under the provisions of paragraphs (1) through (6) shall be prescribed by the Presidential Decree.

[This Article Wholly Amended by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999]

Article 13 Deleted. <by Act No. 7161, Jan. 29, 2004>

Article 14 (Obligation of Indications)

(1) Any media materials

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harmful to juveniles shall carry indications that they are harmful to juveniles (hereinafter referred to as the "indications of being harmful to juveniles").

(2) Persons under obligation to stick the indications of being harmful to juveniles under paragraph (1), kinds, period and methods of the indications of being harmful to juveniles and other necessary matters shall be prescribed by the Presidential Decree.

Article 15 (Obligation of Packing)

(1) Any media materials harmful to juveniles shall be packed: Provided, That the same shall not apply to the case where such media materials cannot be packed due to their characteristics.

(2) Kinds of media materials to be packed under paragraph (1), persons under obligation to pack them, methods of packing them, and other necessary matters concerning the packing of such media materials shall be prescribed by the Presidential Decree.

Article 16 (Prohibition from Damaging Indications and Packages)

Nobody shall damage the juvenile harmful indications under the provisions of Article 14 and the packages under the provisions of Article 15.

Article 17 (Prohibition from Selling, etc.)

(1) Any person

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who intends to sell, lend or distribute the media materials harmful to juveniles or provides them for seeing and hearing, viewing and utilizing shall confirm the age of such counterparts, and shall not sell, rent or distribute them to the juveniles, or provide them for their seeing and hearing, viewing and utilizing. <Amended by Act No. 6479, May 24, 2001>

(2) Any media materials subject to the juvenile harmful indications under the provisions of Article 14 shall not be exhibited or displayed for the purpose of selling or renting them without such indications stuck.

(3) Any media materials subject to packing under the provisions of Article 15 shall not be displayed or exhibited for the purpose of selling or renting them without such media materials being packed.

(4) Other necessary matters concerning the prohibition of sales, etc. of media materials harmful to juveniles, shall be prescribed by the Presidential Decree.

Article 18 (Differentiation and Insulation, etc.)

(1) The media materials harmful to juveniles shall not be exhibited or displaced for the purpose of selling and renting them without such media materials being differentiated and insulated from other media materials which are allowed to be distributed among them.

(2) Media materials harmful to juveniles, which fall under subparagraph 1 or

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6 of Aticle 7, shall not be exhibited and displayed fo the purpose of distributing them among juveniles through automats or vending machines: Provided, That the same shall not apply to the case falling under each of the following subparagraphs: <Amended by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999>

1. The case where a person, who has set up his automats or vending machines, can check the act of buying media materials harmful to juveniles by the young; and

2. The case where such automats or vending machines are set up in establishments banned from employing juveniles or giving them access under subparagraph 5 (a) of Article 2.

(3) Necessary matters concerning differentiation, insulation, selling methods, etc. under paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be prescribed by the Presidential Decree.

Article 19 (Restrictions on Broadcasting Hours)

Media materials harmful to juveniles, which fall under subparagraph 5 of Article 7 and advertising materials which fall under subparagraph 7 of Article 7 shall be prohibited from being broadcast during hours as prescribed by the Presidential Decree.

Article 20 (Restrictions on Advertisements)

(1) Signboards, stand-up signboards, posters, leaflets and other advertisements

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prescribed by the Presidential Decree under the provisions of subparagraph 7 of Article 7, which are media materials harmful to juveniles, shall not be set up, stuck or distributed publicly at places or in ways falling under each of the following subparagraphs: <Amended by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999>

1. Establishments other than those banned from employing juveniles or giving them access;

2. Places through which the pubic passes; and

3. Computer communications which have no function of restricting juveniles from gaining access to them.

(2) As media materials harmful to juveniles, advertisements referred to in the provisions of subparagraph 7 of Article 7 which are collected, inserted, exhibited, or included in other ways in other media materials and objects, etc. shall not be sold or leased to juveniles, or shall not be provided to them for viewing, showing or using.

(3) Necessary matters concerning methods and places of restriction on advertisements referred to in the provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2) and other matters related to the restrictions on advertisement shall be prescribed by the Presidential Decree.

Article 21 (Preparation and Notification of List of Media Materials Harmful to Juveniles)

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(1) The Juvenile Committee and each deliberative organ shall, where having determined that media material concerned is harmful to juveniles, make a list of these media materials, and each deliberative organ shall, where it has made such a list, present it to the Juvenile Committee. <Amended by Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

(2) The Juvenile Committee shall draw up a table of the lists of media materials harmful to juveniles, synthesizing all the lists of the media materials determined to be harmful to juveniles. <Amended by Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

(3) The Juvenile Committee shall notify each deliberative organ, central government agencies related to juveniles or media materials, supervisory or regulatory agencies related to the protection of juveniles, and other entities related to the protection of juveniles, etc. (hereinafter referred to as "related agencies, etc.") about the table of lists of media materials harmful to juveniles referred to in the provisions of paragraph (2), and the Committee may, if necessary, give notice of such table to individuals, juristic persons or entities whose business is circulating media materials, and it may, if requested, notify the persons having parental power, etc. of such table. <Amended by Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

(4) The methods of preparing the table of lists of media materials harmful to juveniles, time of notification, objects of notification, and other necessary matters referred to in paragraph (2), shall

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be prescribed by the Ordinance of the Prime Minister. <Amended by Act No. 5529, Feb. 28, 1998>

Article 22 (Public Notice of Media Materials Harmful to Juveniles)

(1) The Juvenile Committee shall publicly announce those media materials determined or confirmed pursuant to the main sentence of Article 8 (1), Articles 8 (3) and 12, as media materials harmful to juveniles. <Amended by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999; Act No. 6479, May 24, 2001; Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

(2) Each deliberative organ shall ask the Juvenile Committee to give public notice of the media materials concerned, along with a deliberation statement of such media materials. <Amended by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999; Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

(3) When giving public notice under the provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2), the Juvenile Committee shall expressly indicate reasons for public notice and when the effect of public notice comes into force. <Amended by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999; Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

(4) Necessary matters concerning public notice referred to in paragraphs (1) through (3), shall be prescribed by the Ordinance of the Prime Minister. <Amended by Act No. 5529, Feb. 28, 1998>

Article 23 (Revocation, etc. of Determination of Media Material Ha

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rmful to Juveniles)

(1) Where it is deemed that media materials harmful to juveniles is no longer harmful to them, the Juvenile Committee shall revoke the determination of media materials harmful to juveniles referred to in the provisions of Article 8 (1) and (3), and shall delete the media materials concerned from the table of lists of media materials harmful to juveniles, and shall notify related agencies, etc. of the fact. <Amended by Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

(2) Each deliberative organ shall, where it revokes its decision that media materials in question are harmful to juveniles, notify the Juvenile Committee of the fact. In this case, the Juvenile Committee shall delete the concerned media materials from the list of media materials harmful to juveniles and shall notify related agencies, etc. of the fact. <Amended by Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

(3) The Juvenile Committee shall, where a decision is made on the revocation of the previous decision that media materials in question are harmful to juveniles under paragraphs (1) and (2), put the revocation on public notice, expressly indicating the fact of the revocation and the reasons thereof. <Amended by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999; Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

(4) Necessary matters concerning the revocation, etc. of a determination referred to in paragraphs (1) through (3), shall be prescribed by the Ordinance of the Prime Minister. <Amended by Act No.

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5529, Feb. 28, 1998>

Article 23-2 (Special Cases for Foreign Media Materials)

No one shall, for the purpose of profit-making, have the juveniles distribute the media materials produced and published overseas (including the case where they are distributed through such methods as translation, adaption, editing and subtitle interposition), which fall under the criteria for deliberations referred to in Article 10, or possess them for the same purposes. <Amended by Act No. 6479, May 24, 2001>

[This Article Newly Inserted by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999]

CHAPTER III REGULATION OF ESTABLISHMENTS, DRUGS, ACTS, ETC. HARMFUL TO JUVENILES

Article 24 (Prohibition of Establishments Harmful to Juveniles from Employing Juveniles, Giving Them Access)

(1) The operators of establishments harmful to juveniles shall, in case 9where they intend to employ the workers, confirm their ages, and shall not employ the juveniles. <Amended by Act No. 6479, May 24, 2001>

(2) The operators

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and employees of establishments harmful to juveniles, which are prohibited from employing juveniles and giving them access, shall check the ages of persons entering their establishments to keep such juveniles from entering or utilizing their establishments. <Amended by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999>

(3) The operators and employees of establishments harmful to juveniles may demand the presentation of resident registration certificates or other vouchers capable of verifying the ages (hereafter in this paragraph, referred to as the "vouchers") where deemed necessary for verifying ages under the provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2), and if any person who is requested to present vouchers refuses to do so without any justifiable grounds, they may restrict him from gaining access to the said establishment or from utilizing it. <Newly Inserted by Act No. 7161, Jan. 29, 2004>

(4) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (2), juveniles accompanied by a person having parental power, etc. may be allowed to enter such establishments under the conditions as prescribed by the Presidential Decree: Provided, That the same shall not apply to the case where they enter the establishments as prescribed by the Presidential Decree from among the food and entertainment businesses under the Food Sanitation Act. <Amended by Act No. 7161, Jan. 29, 2004; Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

(5) The operators and employees of establishments harmful to juveniles shall set up signs indicating that their establishments are prohibited

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from giving juveniles access, allowing them to utilize their establishments and employing them. <Newly Inserted by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999>

Article 25 (Designation, etc. of No-Passing Areas and Passing-Restricted Areas for Juveniles)

(1) The head of any local government, when he deems it necessary to protect juveniles, shall designate areas which are likely to damage the mental and physical health of juveniles as no-passing areas or passingrestricted areas for them. <Amended by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999>

(2) The head of any local government, when there exist any special reasons for the need to prevent crimes and deviations by juveniles, may prohibit or restrict the passing of juveniles in the areas designated under paragraph (1) during the specific time determined under the conditions as prescribed by the Presidential Decree. <Amended by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999>

(3) The head of any local government shall prescribe specific standards for designating the no-passing and passing-restricted areas for juveniles referred to in paragraphs (1) and (2) and methods of guiding them properly and cracking down them in the Municipal Ordinance of the local government. In this case, the opinions of the competent police stations, schools, related organs and residents in the areas shall be reflected in prescribing such standards and methods. <Amended by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999>

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(4) Any local government and the competent police station, when juveniles attempt to pass through the no-passing and passing-restricted areas in violation of the provisions of paragraph (2), may block them from passing through the areas and evict any juveniles passing through the areas out of the areas. <Newly Inserted by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999>

Article 26 (Protection of Juveniles from Drugs, etc. Harmful to Them)

(1) No one shall be permitted to sell, lend or distribute drugs, etc. harmful to juveniles by having the juveniles as the targets. In this case, such cases shall be included as they are sold, lent or distributed by the automatic machine apparatus, unmanned sale apparatus or communications apparatus: Provided, That this shall not apply to those sold for the study, industry or medical treatment as prescribed by the Presidential Decree. <Amended by Act No. 6479, May 24, 2001>

(2) The Juvenile Committee shall prepare a table of the lists of the drugs harmful to juveniles and shall give notice of the table to the central government agencies related to drugs, etc. harmful to juveniles, guidance or supervisory agencies related to the protection of juveniles, and other related entities aiming at protecting juveniles. The Committee may, if necessary, give notice of the table to individuals, juristic persons or entities whose business is circulating drugs, and may, where requested, give notice of the table to the persons having parental

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power, etc. over juveniles. <Amended by Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

(3) Methods of preparing the table of lists of drugs harmful to juveniles, time of notification, object of notification, and any other necessary matters referred to in paragraph (2), shall be prescribed by the Ordinance of the Prime Minister. <Amended by Act No. 5529, Feb. 28, 1998>

(4) The provisions of Articles 14 through 16 shall apply mutatis mutandis to drugs, etc. harmful to juveniles.

Article 26-2 (Prohibition of Acts Harmful to Juveniles)

No one shall perform the act falling under any of the following subparagraphs: <Amended by Act No. 6261, Feb. 3, 2000; Act No. 7161, Jan. 29, 2004>

1. The act of having juveniles sexually entertain through their physical contacts and the exposure of their sexual organs for the purpose of making profits, and other act of arranging such lascivious things;

2. The act of having juveniles drink with clienteles or entertain such clienteles with songs and dance, and other act of arranging such entertaining things for the purpose of making profits;

3. The act of having juveniles perform the lascivious act for the purpose of making profits or entertainment;

4. The act of

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showing the physically deformed parts of juveniles to the public for the purpose of making profits or entertainment;

5. The act of having juveniles beg for money or goods or using them as a means to beg for money or goods;

6. The act of abusing juveniles;

7. The act of having juveniles lure customers on the street for the purpose of making profits;

8. The act of disrupting public morality by permitting male and female juveniles to sleep on the same beds and other act of providing a place to that end; and

9. The act of having juveniles deliver the teas, etc. deviating from the business place which mainly prepares and sells the teas, etc., or the act of promoting or tolerating it.

[This Article Newly Inserted by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999]

Article 26-3 (Invalid Claims against Juveniles)

(1) Any claims held against juveniles in connection with the harmful acts by the person who has committed the act under the provisions of Article 26-2 (hereafter in this paragraph, referred to as the "harmful acts") shall be made invalid irrespective of the forms or pretexts of contracts.

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(2) Any claims held against juveniles in connection with an employment by the operators of establishments under subparagraph 5 (a) (i) and (b) (i) of Article 2 shall be made invalid irrespective of the forms or pretexts of contracts.

[This Article Newly Inserted by Act No. 7161, Jan. 29, 2004]

CHAPTER IV JUVENILE PROTECTION CENTER, ETC.

Articles 27 through 33 Deleted. <by Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

Article 33-2 (Juvenile Protection Center, etc.)

(1) A juvenile protection center may be established under the Juvenile Committee to protect temporally juveniles from violence, abuse and the environment, etc. harmful to them. <Amended by Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

(2) The juvenile protection center may have lawyers specializing in juvenile affairs to provide legal assistance and counseling including the process attorney to juveniles who have suffered damages.

(3) A juvenile rehabilitation center may be established under the Juvenile Committee to help juveniles rehabilitate, who have suffered from violence, abuse and drugs or who have committed a violation.

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(4) Detailed matters concerning the juvenile protection center and the juvenile rehabilitation center referred to in paragraphs (1) and (3) shall be prescribed by the Presidential Decree.

[This Article Newly Inserted by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999]

Articles 33-3 and 33-4 Deleted. <by Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

CHAPTER V SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS

Article 34 (Reports, etc.)

The head of Si/Gun/Gu (referring to the head of autonomous Gu; hereinafter the same shall apply) may, it he deems it necessary to confirm whether or not such persons are complying with those provisions provided for in this Act, ask those who circulate media materials harmful to juveniles, and drugs, etc. harmful to juveniles, operators of establishments harmful to juveniles, and other related persons, to make a necessary report and present necessary data or materials under the conditions as prescribed by the Presidential Decree. <Amended by Act No. 7161, Jan. 29, 2004>

Article 35 (Inspection and Investigation, etc.)

(1) The head of Si/Gun/Gu may, if he deems it necessary to confirm whether

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or not they are complying with those provisions provided for in this Act, have public officials belonging to him inspect and investigate records, documents, places, and other necessary objects related to the circulation of media materials harmful to juveniles and drugs, etc. harmful to juveniles, the employment of juveniles by harmful business places, and juveniles' visitation to such business places and may have these public officials hear the opinion of the parties concerned, interested parties, or reference persons at places designated under the conditions as prescribed by the Presidential Decree. <Amended by Act No. 7161, Jan. 29, 2004>

(2) The head of Si/Gun/Gu may, where deemed necessary, refer to persons of special knowledge and experience for expert appraisal. <Amended by Act No. 7161, Jan. 29, 2004>

(3) A public official who performs the duties pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), shall carry a certificate indicating his power and produce it to the persons concerned.

Article 36 (Removal and Destruction)

(1) Where the media materials identified as harmful to juveniles and the drugs, etc. harmful to juveniles do not carry any indications of harmfulness to juveniles under Article 14 (including a case applied mutatis mutandis in Article 26 (4)), or they are distributed without any package under Article 15 (including a case applied mutatis mutandis in Article 26 (4)) or any media materials, which are distributed without going through deliberation of each deliberative organ about whether or

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not they are harmful to juveniles, are identified as harmful to juveniles, the head of Si/Gun/Gu may order their owners and other persons engaged in the relevant distribution to remove such media materials and such drugs. <Amended by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999; Act No. 6479, May 24, 2001; Act No. 7161, Jan. 29, 2004>

(2) The head of Si/Gun/Gu may, where a person who is under the order to remove such media materials and such drugs under paragraph (1) can not be identified or the person disobeys the order, remove or destroy such media materials or such drugs under the conditions as prescribed by the Presidential Decree. <Amended by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999; Act No. 7161, Jan. 29, 2004>

(3) Necessary matters concerning the removal and destruction, etc. referred to in paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be prescribed by the Presidential Decree.

(4) The head of Si/Gun/Gu and the head of a police station may remove, destruct or take necessary dispositions against the drugs, etc. harmful to juveniles and the media materials harmful to juveniles, such as the liquors under the Liquor Tax Act, the cigarettes under the Tobacco Business Act, and the sex apparatuses, which juveniles own or possess. <Newly Inserted by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999; Act No. 6479, May 24, 2001; Act No. 7161, Jan. 29, 2004; Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

(5) The head of Si/Gun/Gu and the head of a police station shall, when

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they take dispositios uder paragraph (4), eter the ames of items, the quantity of items, the owners or possessors of items and the contents of dispositions in related books. <Newly Inserted by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999; Act No. 7161, Jan. 29, 2004>

Article 37 (Corrective Order)

(1) The head of Si/Gun/Gu may order any person falling under any of the following subparagraphs to take corrective measures: <Amended by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999; Act No. 7161, Jan. 29, 2004>

1. A person who fails to make indications on his media materials that they are harmful to juveniles in violation of the provisions of Article 14;

2. A person who fails to pack his media materials harmful to juveniles in violation of the provisions of Article 15;

3. A person who exhibits or displays to sell or rent media materials harmful to juveniles without making indications on them that they are harmful to juveniles in violation of the provisions of Article 17 (2) for the purpose of making profits;

4. A person who exhibits or displays to sell or rent media materials harmful to juveniles without packing them in violation of the provisions of Article 17 (3) for the purpose of making profits;

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5. A person who exhibits or displays to sell or rent media materials harmful to juveniles without differentiating and insulating them in violation of the provisions of Article 18 (1) for the purpose of making profits;

6. A person who exhibits or displays to distribute media materials harmful to juveniles, which fall under subparagraph 1 or 6 of Article 7, through automats or vending machines in violation of the provisions of Article 18 (2) for the purpose of making profits; and

7. A person who openly sets up, sticks and distributes advertisements harmful to juveniles in establishments other than those which are prohibited from employing juveniles or giving them access and in places through which the public pass, or who makes such advertisements by means of computer communications which have no function of restricting juveniles from gaining access to them, in violation of the provisions of Article 20 (1).

(2) Necessary matters concerning kinds, procedures and compliance, etc. of such corrective order referred to in paragraph (1) shall be prescribed by the Presidential Decree.

Article 38 (Specification of Reason)

The head of Si/Gun/Gu shall, where he takes a disposition such as removal, destruction or corrective order referred to in the provisions of Articles 36 and 37, specify the reason for the disposition under the conditions as prescribed by the Presidential

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Decree. <Amended by Act No. 7161, Jan. 29, 2004>

Articles 39 and 40 Deleted. <by Act No. 7161, Jan. 29, 2004>

Article 41 Deleted. <by Act No. 6479, May 24, 2001>

Article 42 (Cooperation of Heads of Related Administrative Agencies)

(1) The Juvenile Committee may, where deemed necessary for the enforcement of this Act, hear the opinions of the heads of related administrative agencies. <Amended by Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

(2) The Juvenile Committee may, where deemed necessary to ensure the fulfillment of duties referred to in the provisions of this Act, ask the heads of related administrative agencies to cooperate with the Committee. <Amended by Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

Article 43 (Delivery of Certificate, etc.)

(1) The Juvenile Committee may provide administrative and financial assistance for non-governmental supervisory or complaint organizations which perform activities for cleaning up environments harmful to juveniles, and may, if necessary to achieve the efficient performance of their functions, deliver to such organizations a certificate indicating that they are engaged in supervisory activities of environments harmful to juveniles under

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the conditions as prescribed by the Presidential Decree. <Amended by Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

(2) Teachers may be allowed to join the non-governmental supervisory or complaint organizations under paragraph (1). <Newly Inserted by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999>

(3) Specific kinds and titles of the non-governmental supervisory and complaint organizations referred to in paragraph (1) shall be prescribed by the Ordinance of the Prime Minister. <Amended by Act No. 5529, Feb. 28, 1998>

Article 44 (Report)

(1) In case where a person finds that media materials and drugs, etc. which are deemed harmful to juveniles are circulated to juveniles, where a person finds that juveniles are employed in or enter business places harmful to them, or where a person deems that any of the provisions of this Act is violated, that person shall report it to the head of Si/Gun/ Gu. <Amended by Act No. 7161, Jan. 29, 2004>

(2) The head of Si/Gun/Gu shall execute necessary policies in order to encourage such report referred to in the provisions of paragraph (1), and may, if necessary, provide a reward, etc. to reporters thereof. <Amended by Act No. 7161, Jan. 29, 2004>

Article 44-2 (Notice of Juveniles Subject to Measures for Proper Guidance and Protection)

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With respect to the juveniles deemed to be in need of the measures for proper guidance and protection in view of the contents and level, etc. from among the juveniles who have provided the causes for such offenses as inducing positively the acts violating the provisions of Articles 17 (1), 24 (1) and (2), 26 (1), and subparagraphs 1 through 3, 7 through 9 of Article 26-2, or cheating on the age, etc., the head of Si/ Gun/Gu shall notify the head of competent police station, the head of competent school (limited to the case of students), and the guardians, etc. of the relevant facts. <Amended by Act No. 7161, Jan. 29, 2004>

[This Article Newly Inserted by Act No. 6479, May 24, 2001]

Article 45 Deleted. <by Act No. 6721, Aug. 26, 2002>

Article 46 (Entrustment of Authorities)

The Juvenile Committee may entrust a part of his authorities under this Act to a non-profit corporation or organization relating to the juvenile protection, media materials or drugs etc., under the conditions as prescribed by the Presidential Decree. <Amended by Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

[This Article Wholly Amended by Act No. 7161, Jan. 29, 2004]

Article 47 (Establishment, etc. of Local Juvenile Affairs Office)

(1) The Special Metropolitan

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City Mayor, City Mayor, or Do governor (hereinafter referred to as the "Mayor/Do governor") may establish local juvenile affairs offices under the conditions as prescribed by the Municipal Ordinance in order to protect juveniles within their jurisdictional area. <Amended by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999>

(2) Other necessary matters for protecting juveniles within the Special Metropolitan City, Metropolitan Cities, Dos shall be prescribed by the Municipal Ordinances of relevant local governments.

Article 48 (Legal Fiction as Public Officials in Application of Penal Provisions)

(1) Members or employees other than those public officials engaged in the duties of the Juvenile Committee shall be deemed public officials in applying Articles 129 through 132 of the Criminal Act, and Article 2 of the Act on the Aggravated Punishment, etc. of Specific Crimes. <Amended by Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

(2) Members, officers, or employees of the Korea Publication Ethics Commission, corporate bodies or entities which are engaged in deliberation duties among the duties entrusted pursuant to the provisions of Article 46 shall be deemed public officials in applying Articles 129 through 132 of the Criminal Act and Article 2 of the Act on the Aggravated Punishment, etc. of Specific Crimes. <Amended by Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

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Article 49 (Penalty Surcharge)

(1) The Juvenile Committee may impose and collect a penalty surcharge not exceeding 20 million won from any person having published or imported the periodicals, etc., who has distributed or is distributing the media materials harmful to juveniles which are in conflict with the criteria for deliberation under Article 10, without making any indications on them to the effect of being harmful to juveniles or packing them under the provisions of Articles 14 and 15, before the determination and public announcement of the relevant media materials harmful to juveniles. <Amended by Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

(2) The head of Si/Gun/Gu may, under the conditions as prescribed by the Presidential Decree, impose and collect a penalty surcharge not exceeding 10 million won from any person having gained profits by performing an act falling under any of subparagraphs of Article 50 or 51: Provided, That the same shall not apply to the cases where such administrative dispositions as a revocation of business license, closedown of business place, business suspension or imposition of a penalty surcharge, etc. under the provisions of other Acts have been taken or it is possible to take such dispositions.

(3) Where a person fails to pay the penalty surcharge referred to in paragraph (1) or (2) within a fixed period, the Juvenile Committee or the head of Si/Gun/Gu shall collect the said surcharge by referring to the practices of dispositions on default of national taxes or local taxes. <Amended by Act No.

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7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

(4) The Juvenile Committee or the head of Si/Gun/Gu may, where deemed that it is difficult to pay the whole amount of penalty surcharge in a lump sum due to reasons falling under any of the following subparagraphs, extend the deadline of such payment or grant the payment in installments: <Amended by Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

1. Where suffered from significant losses of assets due to natural disasters, fire, etc.;

2. Where faced with serious crisis by suffering from significant losses in business;

3. Where presumed to be badly off due to the payment of penalty surcharge in a lump sum; and

4. Other reasons equivalent to subparagraphs 1 through 3.

(5) The amount of penalty surcharge collected pursuant to paragraphs (1) through (3) shall be used by a collector for the purpose falling under any of the following subparagraphs:

1. Development and propagation of programs designed to clean up the environment harmful to juveniles;

2. Production and assistance of media materials beneficial to juveniles;

3. Assistance

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in private sector initiatives for instructing and protecting juveniles, and civil movements organized to clean up the environment harmful to juveniles; and

4. Other projects prescribed by the Presidential Decree to guide and protect juveniles properly.

(6) Imposition criteria for penalty surcharge and method of imposition and payment of penalty surcharge referred to in paragraphs (1) through (4), and other matters necessary for the imposition and collection of penalty surcharge shall be prescribed by the Presidential Decree.

[This Article Wholly Amended by Act No. 7161, Jan. 29, 2004]

CHAPTER VI PENAL PROVISIONS

Article 49-2 (Penal Provisions)

Any person, who has violated the provisions of subparagraph 1 of Article 26-2, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one year but not more than 10 years.

[This Article Newly Inserted by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999]

Article 49-3 (Penal Provisions)

Any person, who has violated the provisions of subparagraph 2 or 3 of Article 26-2, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than

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10 years.

[This Article Newly Inserted by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999]

Article 49-4 (Penal Provisions)

Any person, who has violated the provisions of subparagraphs 4 through 6 of Article 26-2, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than 5 years.

[This Article Newly Inserted by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999]

Article 50 (Penal Provisions)

Any person falling under any of the following subparagraphs shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than three years or by a fine not exceeding 20 million won: <Amended by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999; Act No. 6261, Feb. 3, 2000; Act No. 6479, May 24, 2001; Act No. 7161, Jan. 29, 2004>

1. A person who has sold, lent or distributed the media materials harmful to juveniles to the juveniles, or provided them for seeing and hearing, viewing or utilizing for the purpose of profit-making in violation of Article 17 (1);

1-2. A person who has made the juveniles distribute the media materials, etc. which tend to cause criminal urges, for the purpose of profit-making in violation of Article 23-2;

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2. A person who has employed juveniles to work for establishments harmful to them in violation of Article 24 (1);

3. A person who has sold, rented or distributed drugs referred to in subparagraph 4 (a) (vi) or (vii) of Article 2 or materials referred to in item (b) of the same subparagraph to juveniles in violation of Article 26 (1);

4. A person who has violated the provisions of subparagraphs 7 through 9 of Article 26-2; and

5. A person who has failed to remove the media materials harmful to juveniles, drugs harmful to juveniles, etc. in violation of Article 36 (1).

Article 51 (Penal Provisions)

Any person falling under any of the following subparagraphs shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than two years or by a fine not exceeding 10 million won: <Amended by Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999; Act No. 6479, May 24, 2001; Act No. 7161, Jan. 29, 2004; Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

1. A person who has failed to stick indications on the media materials, establishments or drugs harmful to juveniles in violation of Articles 14, 24 (5) and 26 (4);

2. A person who has failed to pack any media material harmful to juveniles in violation of Article 15;

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3. and 4. Deleted; <by Act No. 7161, Jan. 29, 2004>

5. A person who has broadcasted any media material harmful to juveniles in violation of Article 19;

6. A person who has installed, attached or distributed any advertisement in violation of Article 20 (1);

7. A person who has allowed juveniles to enter harmful business places in violation of Article 24 (2); and

8. A person who has sold the liquors under the Liquor Tax Act or the cigarettes under the Tobacco Business Act to juveniles in violation of Article 26 (1).

Article 52 (Penal Provisions)

A person who has damaged the indications on the media materials harmful to juveniles to the effect of being harmful to them or their package in violation of Article 16, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five million won.

Article 53 (Penal Provisions)

A person who has refused, interfered with, or evaded an inspection and investigation by relevant public officials in violation of Article 35, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding three million won.

Article 54 (Joint Penal Provisions)

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Where the representative of a juristic person or entity, or an agent, servant or employee of a juristic person, an entity or an individual commits an offense under the provisions of Articles 49-2 through 49-4 and 50 through 53 in respect of the business of such juristic person, entity, or individual, not only shall the wrongdoer be punished but the juristic person, the entity or the individual shall be punished by a fine as prescribed in the respective applicable Article. <Amended by Act No. 7161, Jan. 29, 2004>

Article 55 (Mitigation of Punishment)

Where a person who has committed an offense under Articles 50 through 52 was issued a corrective order referred to in the provisions of Article 37, and has complied with it, the punishment may be mitigated.

Article 56 (Fine for Negligence)

(1) Any person, who has disobeyed the corrective order under Article 37 (1) 1, 2, or 7, shall be punished by a fine for negligence not exceeding five million won.

(2) Any person falling under any of the following subparagraphs shall be punished by a fine for negligence not exceeding one million won:

1. A person who has failed to comply with a request for report and submission of data referred to in the provisions of Article 34, or a person who has submitted false reports or data;

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and

2. A person who has disobeyed the corrective order referred to in the provisions of Article 37 (1) 3 through 6.

(3) The fine for negligence referred to in paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be imposed and collected by the head of Si/Gun/Gu (hereinafter referred to as the "imposing authority") under the conditions as prescribed by the Presidential Decree.

(4) Any person who is dissatisfied with the disposition of the fine for negligence referred to in paragraph (3) may raise an objection to the imposing authority within 30 days from the day he is notified of that disposition.

(5) When any person subjected to a disposition of the fine for negligence under paragraph (3) raises an objection under paragraph (4), the imposing authority shall promptly notify the competent court thereof, and the court in receipt of said notice shall bring the case to a trial for the fine for negligence under the Non-Contentious Case Litigation Procedure Act. <Amended by Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

(6) If neither an objection is raised nor is a fine for negligence paid within the period as prescribed in paragraph (4), it shall be collected by referring to the practices of dispositions on default of local taxes.

[This Article Wholly Amended by Act No. 7161, Jan. 29, 2004]

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ADDENDA

Article 1 (Enforcement Date)

This Act shall enter into force on July 1, 1997.

Article 2 (Transitional Measures concerning Korea Publications Ethics Committee)

Incorporated association the Korea Publications Ethics Committee existing at the time when this Act enters into force shall be regarded as the Korea Publications Ethics Committee prescribed under this Act, in the case where the Committee obtains the authorization of modification of the articles of association by the Minister of Culture and Sports within three months after the date this Act enters into force. In this case, the Korea Publications Ethics Committee shall be regarded as the successor of all the rights and obligations of the former Korea Publications Ethics Committee.

ADDENDA <Act No. 5529, Feb. 28, 1998>

Article 1 (Enforcement Date)

This Act shall enter into force on the date of its promulgation. (Proviso Omitted.)

Articles 2 through 7 Omitted.

ADDENDA <Act No. 5817, Feb. 5, 1999>

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Article 1 (Enforcement Date)

This Act shall enter into force on July 1, 1999: Provided, That the amended provisions of Articles 27 through 31 shall enter into force after the elapse of three months from the date this Act is promulgated.

Article 2 (Transitional Measures concerning Members of Juvenile Protection Committee)

The terms of office for members of the Juvenile Protection Committee, who are appointed or commissioned under the previous provisions of Article 29 (2) at the time of enforcing this Act shall be dealt with according to the previous provisions.

Article 3 (Abrogation of Other Act)

The Protection of Minors Act is hereby abrogated.

Article 4 (Transitional Measures concerning Penal Provisions, etc.)

(1) The application of the penal provisions to any acts violating the previous provisions of the Protection of Minors Act and Article 9 (3) of the National Health Promotion Act before the enforcement of this Act shall be dealt with according to the previous provisions.

(2) Cigarettes, liquor and related articles, substandard comic books, and lascivious

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documents, books, sound records, video products and other articles, which are removed by the heads of police stations under the previous provisions of Article 5 of the Protection of Minors Act at the time of enforcing this Act, shall be returned or disposed of and then entered in related books under the previous provisions.

(3) The juvenile off-limits areas designated under the previous provisions of Article 2 (2) of the Protection of Minors Act at the time of enforcing this Act shall be deemed the juvenile off-limits areas under the amended provisions of Article 25 of this Act.

Article 5 Omitted.

ADDENDA <Act No. 5942, Mar. 31, 1999>

Article 1 (Enforcement Date)

This Act shall enter into force on July 1, 1999. (Proviso Omitted.)

Articles 2 through 5 Omitted.

ADDENDA <Act No. 6146, Jan. 12, 2000>

Article 1 (Enforcement Date)

This Act shall enter into force on July 1, 2000.

Articles 2 through 9 Omitted.

ADDENDA <Act No. 6261, Feb. 3, 2000>

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(1) (Enforcement Date) This Act shall enter into force on July 1, 2000.

(2) and (3) Omitted.

ADDENDA <Act No. 6460, Apr. 7, 2001>

Article 1 (Enforcement Date)

This Act shall enter into force on July 1, 2001.

Articles 2 through 4 Omitted.

ADDENDA <Act No. 6479, May 24, 2001>

Article 1 (Enforcement Date)

This Act shall enter into force three months after the date of its promulgation: Provided, That the amended provisions of subparagraph 5 (b) (iii) of Article 2 shall enter into force four months after the date of its promulgation.

Article 2 (Transitional Measures on Penal Provisions)

In applying the penal provisions to the offenses committed prior to the enforcement of this Act, the previous provisions shall govern.

Article 3 Omitted.

ADDENDA <Act No. 6721, Aug. 26, 2002>

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Article 1 (Enforcement Date)

This Act shall enter into force six months after the date of its promulgation.

Articles 2 through 8 Omitted.

ADDENDA <Act No. 7161, Jan. 29, 2004>

(1) (Enforcement Date) This Act shall enter into force three months after the date of its promulgation.

(2) (Transitional Measures concerning Raising Objection) The previous provisions shall govern any objections accepted prior to the enforcement of this Act.

(3) (Transitional Measures concerning Filing of Lawsuits) The previous provisions shall govern any filing of lawsuits against the objections accepted prior to the enforcement of this Act.

(4) (Transitional Measures concerning Penal Provisions, etc.) The previous provisions shall govern any applications of penal provisions or fines for negligence to the acts committed prior to the enforcement of this Act.

ADDENDA <Act No. 7187, Mar. 11, 2004>

Article 1 (Enforcement Date)

This Act shall enter

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into force three months after the date of its promulgation. (Proviso Omitted.)

Articles 2 through 5 Omitted.

ADDENDA <Act No. 7423, Mar. 24, 2005>

(1) (Enforcement Date) This Act shall enter into force on the date when the Presidential Decree concerning the organization of the Juvenile Committee following the partial amendment of the Framework Act on Juveniles, Act No. 7421, takes effect.

[The date when the organization of the Juvenile Committee enters into force is set for April 27, 2005 pursuant to the Presidential Decree No. 18806 enacted on April 27, 2005]

(2) (Transitional Measures concerning Jurisdictional Affairs, Public Officials, etc. following Abolition and Establishment of Office) At the time of the entry into force of this Act, the jurisdictional affairs of the Juvenile Protection Committee shall be succeeded to by the Juvenile Committee, and the public officials affiliated with the Juvenile Protection Committee shall be deemed to belong to the Juvenile Committee.

(3) (Relation with Other Acts and Subordinate Statutes) Where the Juvenile Protection Committee and its chairman and public officials have been cited in other Acts and subordinate statutes at the time of the entry into force of this Act, the Juvenile Committee and its chairman and public officials shall be considered to have been cited in lieu thereof, respectively.

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JUVENILE PROTECTION ACT
- Articles
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1. 청소년 보호법

2025-12-30 / 제21277호 / 시행 2026-07-01
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

2. 청소년 보호법

2025-10-01 / 제21065호 / 시행 2025-10-01
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

3. 청소년 보호법

2025-04-22 / 제20935호 / 시행 2025-04-22
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

4. 청소년 보호법

2024-03-26 / 제20423호 / 시행 2024-03-26
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

5. 청소년 보호법

2021-12-07 / 제18550호 / 시행 2022-01-01
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

6. 청소년 보호법

2020-12-29 / 제17761호 / 시행 2021-01-01
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

7. 청소년 보호법

2020-03-24 / 제17091호 / 시행 2020-03-24
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

8. 청소년 보호법

2018-12-18 / 제15987호 / 시행 2018-12-18
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

9. 청소년 보호법

2018-12-11 / 제15913호 / 시행 2018-12-11
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

10. 청소년 보호법

2018-01-16 / 제15353호 / 시행 2018-01-16
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

11. 청소년 보호법

2017-12-12 / 제15209호 / 시행 2018-03-13
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

12. 청소년 보호법

2016-12-20 / 제14446호 / 시행 2017-06-21
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

13. 청소년 보호법

2016-03-02 / 제14067호 / 시행 2016-03-02
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

14. 청소년 보호법

2016-01-06 / 제13726호 / 시행 2016-07-07
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

15. 청소년 보호법

2015-06-22 / 제13371호 / 시행 2015-06-22
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

16. 청소년 보호법

2014-05-28 / 제12699호 / 시행 2015-05-29
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

17. 청소년 보호법

2014-03-24 / 제12534호 / 시행 2014-09-25
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

18. 청소년 보호법

2013-08-06 / 제11998호 / 시행 2014-08-07
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

19. 청소년 보호법

2013-06-04 / 제11862호 / 시행 2015-01-01
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

20. 청소년 보호법

2013-03-22 / 제11673호 / 시행 2013-09-23
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

21. 청소년 보호법

2012-01-26 / 제11229호 / 시행 2012-07-27
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

22. 청소년 보호법

2012-01-17 / 제11179호 / 시행 2012-01-29
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

23. 청소년 보호법

2011-09-15 / 제11048호 / 시행 2012-09-16
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

24. 청소년 보호법

2011-07-28 / 제10980호 / 시행 2012-01-29
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

25. 청소년 보호법

2011-05-19 / 제10659호 / 시행 2011-11-20
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

26. 청소년 보호법

2010-01-18 / 제9932호 / 시행 2010-03-19
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

27. 청소년 보호법

2009-07-31 / 제9785호 / 시행 2010-02-01
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

28. 청소년 보호법

2008-02-29 / 제8877호 / 시행 2008-02-29
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

29. 청소년 보호법

2006-04-28 / 제7943호 / 시행 2006-10-29
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

30. 청소년 보호법

2006-02-21 / 제7849호 / 시행 2006-07-01
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

31. 청소년 보호법

2005-12-29 / 제7800호 / 시행 2006-03-30
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

32. 청소년 보호법

2005-12-29 / 제7799호 / 시행 2006-03-30
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

33. 청소년 보호법

2005-03-24 / 제7423호 / 시행 2005-04-27
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

34. 청소년 보호법

2004-12-31 / 제7292호 / 시행 2006-01-01
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

35. 청소년 보호법

2004-03-11 / 제7187호 / 시행 2004-06-12
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

36. 청소년 보호법

2004-01-29 / 제7161호 / 시행 2004-04-30
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

37. 청소년 보호법

2002-08-26 / 제6721호 / 시행 2003-02-27
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

38. 청소년 보호법

2001-05-24 / 제6479호 / 시행 2001-08-25
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

39. 청소년 보호법

2001-04-07 / 제6460호 / 시행 2001-07-01
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

40. 청소년 보호법

2000-02-03 / 제6261호 / 시행 2000-07-01
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

41. 청소년 보호법

2000-01-12 / 제6146호 / 시행 2000-07-01
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

42. 청소년 보호법

1999-03-31 / 제5942호 / 시행 1999-07-01
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

43. 청소년 보호법

1999-02-05 / 제5817호 / 시행 1999-07-01
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

44. 청소년 보호법

1998-02-28 / 제5529호 / 시행 1998-02-28
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT

45. 청소년 보호법

1997-03-07 / 제5297호 / 시행 1997-07-01
YOUTH PROTECTION ACT