Korean legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
Access 183,546+ Korean laws, regulations, administrative rules and official materials from Korean government and regulatory institutions across 2 official portals. Search Korean legal data directly or connect it to your AI agent, legaltech product or research workflow through Lawstronaut's API and MCP server. Every record is linked to its official source and structured in the same format used across more than 150 jurisdictions.
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What sets the criteria for penalty surcharges under Korea's Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA)?
The administrative rule 「개인정보 보호법 위반에 대한 과징금 부과기준」 (Standards for the Imposition of Penalty Surcharges for Violations of the Personal Information Protection Act) — an administrative rule that took effect on 15 September 2023.
Source: 국세법령정보시스템 (law.go.kr, National Law Information Center) — https://www.law.go.kr/admRulLsInfoP.do?admRulSeq=2100000229342
Retrieved: 2026-04-27 · Version: 1 · Cited in-turn
The official Korean sources we cover
Lawstronaut collects Korean legal materials from official government and regulatory sources. Each record links back to its original source, with metadata such as portal, publication date, legal link, content type, and version where available.
Source categories: national statutes, administrative rules, and local ordinances via law.go.kr · financial-sector publications via FN HUB Korea
- 국세법령정보시스템 (law.go.kr)
- FN HUB KOREA (fnhubkorea.kr)
Korean legal source types covered
Korean legal coverage currently centers on primary and secondary legislation, administrative rules, and local ordinances, with regulatory publications and legislative history where available.
Legislation & Regulations
법률 (Acts), 시행령 (Presidential Decrees), 시행규칙 (Ministerial Ordinances), 행정규칙 (administrative rules), and 조례·규칙 (local ordinances and rules), taken directly from the National Law Information Center on law.go.kr.
Legislative History
Amendment records and revision-tracking ordinances that accompany statutory changes, where available, each tied to its source; dedicated National Assembly bill and committee coverage is not yet in the corpus.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Administrative rules and enforcement criteria — such as PIPA penalty-surcharge standards — from law.go.kr, alongside financial-sector reference publications from FN HUB Korea.
Case Law
Court and tribunal decisions from official Korean sources where available; the current corpus centers on legislation and administrative rules via law.go.kr rather than a dedicated case-law portal.
One Korean legal data layer. Four ways to use it.
Lawstronaut API
Query Korean laws, regulations, administrative rules, and official materials through a REST API. Use structured metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and version history to power legaltech products, compliance workflows, and internal research tools.
GET /v2/contents?iso=KR&limit=20Lawstronaut MCP
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to Korean legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official Korean materials — deployable in minutes, with no integration work.
AI Agent Integration
Give your legal AI agent same-turn provenance: it retrieves current Korean legal materials — official source links, metadata, and full text — before generating an answer, with a citation and timestamp on every response.
Build with Lawstronaut
Build Korean legal search, monitoring, compliance, research, and legal AI features without crawling, parsing, normalizing, and updating official sources yourself. We handle source discovery, ingestion, normalization, versioning, and change detection; you build the product.
What you can do with Korean legal data
- Retrieve legal metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and original source files where available
- Filter by jurisdiction, portal, issuing authority, authority type, language, status, and dates
- Access official legal links for citation and audit trails — citation, timestamp, and source link returned in the same turn
- Track point-in-time versions and article-level changes across Korean legal materials
- Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in Korean law, when, and where, without manual monitoring
- Connect AI agents to official Korean sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
- Build internal Korean legal research tools without maintaining your own crawler stack
Why Lawstronaut for Korean legal research
Korean legal information is spread across the National Law Information Center, ministry and regulator sites, and specialized publication portals. For humans, that means slow research. For AI systems, it's a bigger problem: fragmented source access, inconsistent formats, missing provenance, and weak citation trails.
Lawstronaut turns those sources into one structured legal data layer — source links, metadata, full text, versioning, and API/MCP access. Your product or agent retrieves the legal source directly instead of relying on generic web search or unverified model memory. Every answer carries a citation, a timestamp, and a link to the official document — the provenance that makes a legal research platform defensible to auditors and regulators.
About Korea legal coverage
Korea (the Republic of Korea) is a civil-law jurisdiction. Consolidated statutes — 법률 (Acts), 시행령 (Presidential Decrees), and 시행규칙 (Ministerial Ordinances) — administrative rules, and local ordinances are published by the National Law Information Center on law.go.kr, operated by the Ministry of Government Legislation. Statutes are enacted by the National Assembly and implemented through decrees and rules issued by ministries and agencies. Records are published in Korean. Lawstronaut's current Korean coverage centers on law.go.kr and the FN HUB Korea financial-sector publication portal; dedicated case-law, National Assembly, and gazette sources are not yet in the corpus.
Korean law moves quickly: statutes and their implementing decrees are amended frequently, and reforms such as the 2020 and 2023 revisions to the Personal Information Protection Act reshape compliance obligations on short notice. Point-in-time data straight from the source is what keeps a Korean legal research answer correct today.
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Build Korean legal search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining your own legal source pipeline.
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Monitor Korean statutes, administrative rules, and legal changes across official sources — without a manual monitoring rota.
AI builders
Ground legal AI answers in official Korean legal text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.
Internal legal teams
Give lawyers and business users faster access to Korean legal sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per jurisdiction.
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