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Korea AI Basic Act Art. 32: safety duties for high-compute systems

Systems with at least 10^26 FLOP of cumulative training compute, built with the most advanced technology and posing broad and serious risk (Decree Art. 24), identify, assess and mitigate risks across the lifecycle and report the results to MSIT

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From clause to evidenceThe chain from Korea AI Act Art. 32 to its evidence record, in 6 steps; the text alternative lists them and the facts under the figure state each in full.Clause: South Korea AI Basic Act, Art. 32ClauseKorea AI ActArt. 32Duty holder: Operators of qualifying high-compute systemsDuty holderOperators ofqualifying…Applies from: 2026-01-22 (Grace period)Applies from2026-01-22Grace periodArtefact: Lifecycle risk register; safety-incident monitoring; results report to MSITArtefactLifecycle riskregisterLayers: Layer 03 Evals & Red Teaming as Evidence and Layer 04 Runtime Controls & Observability and Layer 05 Assurance & Continuous ComplianceLayersLayer 03Layer 04Layer 05Evidence record: the common evidence record (Evidence record v1)Evidence recordEvidence recordv1Same topic elsewhere: no crosswalk topic files this clause yetAs of 2026-09-24 · illustrative, not a claim of conformity From clause to evidenceThe chain from Korea AI Act Art. 32 to its evidence record, in 6 steps; the text alternative lists them and the facts under the figure state each in full.Clause: South Korea AI Basic Act, Art. 32ClauseKorea AI Act · Art. 32Duty holder: Operators of qualifying high-compute systemsDuty holderOperators of qualifying…Applies from: 2026-01-22 (Grace period)Applies from2026-01-22 · Grace periodArtefact: Lifecycle risk register; safety-incident monitoring; results report to MSITArtefactLifecycle risk registerLayers: Layer 03 Evals & Red Teaming as Evidence and Layer 04 Runtime Controls & Observability and Layer 05 Assurance & Continuous ComplianceLayersLayer 03Layer 04Layer 05Evidence record: the common evidence record (Evidence record v1)Evidence recordEvidence record v1Same topic elsewhere: no crosswalk topicfiles this clause yetAs of 2026-09-24illustrative, not a claim of conformity
From clause to evidence Build the artefact, then file every output it produces as a record that names AIGE-OBL-KR-ART32. Drawn from chapter 08.
Text alternative
  • Clause: Korea AI Act, Art. 32.
  • Duty holder: Operators of qualifying high-compute….
  • Applies from: 2026-01-22, Grace period.
  • Artefact: Lifecycle risk register.
  • Layers: Layer 03, Layer 04, Layer 05.
  • Evidence record: Evidence record v1.
  • Record schema: Evidence record.
  • No crosswalk topic files this clause yet.
When this obligation appliesThe date of AIGE-OBL-KR-ART32 on a time axis, against its review date 2026-09-24.2024202620282030As of 2026-09-242026-01-22 · Grace periodMSIT holds back fact-findingand fines for a guidance periodof at least one year, while theduty applies2026-01-22 · Grace period · MSIT holds back fact-finding and fines for a guidance period of at least one year, while the duty appliesSource: Obligation register(chapter 08)
When this obligation appliesThe date of AIGE-OBL-KR-ART32 on a time axis, against its review date 2026-09-24.2026-01-22 · Grace periodMSIT holds back fact-finding and fines for a guidanceperiod of at least one year, while the duty applies2024202620282030As of 2026-09-242026-01-22 · Grace period · MSIT holds back fact-finding and fines for a guidance period of at least one year, while the duty appliesSource: Obligation register (chapter 08)
When this obligation applies The first date in the row's status, then each later step: filled once its date has passed, outlined while it is still ahead of the review date.
Data table: the dates
Dates of AIGE-OBL-KR-ART32
DateStepDetail
2026-01-22Grace periodMSIT holds back fact-finding and fines for a guidance period of at least one year, while the duty applies
Id
AIGE-OBL-KR-ART32
Instrument
South Korea AI Basic Act law
Clause
Art. 32
In scope
Operators of qualifying high-compute systems
Authority
MSIT
Applies from
Grace period · MSIT holds back fact-finding and fines for a guidance period of at least one year, while the duty applies

The artefact that evidences it

Lifecycle risk register; safety-incident monitoring; results report to MSIT.

Patterns that build it

No pattern in the catalogue names this clause on its "Maps to" line yet; the artefact above is the engineering answer.

Source

Chapter 08, section South Korea, article by article, checked against its sources on the review date above.

Machine-readable

Cite this obligation

García Aibar, J. (2026). Korea AI Basic Act Art. 32: safety duties for high-compute systems (AIGE-OBL-KR-ART32). In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/obligations/aige-obl-kr-art32. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026obligation,
  author       = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title        = {{Korea AI Basic Act Art. 32: safety duties for high-compute systems (AIGE-OBL-KR-ART32)}},
  howpublished = {In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {0.5.0},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url          = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/obligations/aige-obl-kr-art32},
  note         = {Version 0.5.0}
}