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Korea AI Basic Act Art. 36: domestic representative

An operator with no address or establishment in Korea that meets a decree threshold (revenue, AI-service revenue, daily users or a past fine; Decree Art. 29) designates a domestic representative in writing and reports it to MSIT

By Reviewed

From clause to evidenceThe chain from Korea AI Act Art. 36 to its evidence record, in 6 steps; the text alternative lists them and the facts under the figure state each in full.ClauseKorea AI ActArt. 36Duty holderForeign AIbusiness…Applies from2026-01-22Grace periodArtefactDesignationfiled with MSITLayerLayer 05Assurance &ContinuousComplianceEvidence 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. 36 to its evidence record, in 6 steps; the text alternative lists them and the facts under the figure state each in full.ClauseKorea AI Act · Art. 36Duty holderForeign AI business operators…Applies from2026-01-22 · Grace periodArtefactDesignation filed with MSITLayerLayer 05Assurance & Continuous ComplianceEvidence 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-ART36. Drawn from chapter 08.
Text alternative
  • Clause: Korea AI Act, Art. 36.
  • Duty holder: Foreign AI business operators….
  • Applies from: 2026-01-22, Grace period.
  • Artefact: Designation filed with MSIT.
  • Layer: Layer 05 Assurance & Continuous Compliance.
  • Evidence record: Evidence record v1.
  • Record schema: Evidence record.
  • No crosswalk topic files this clause yet.
Id
AIGE-OBL-KR-ART36
Instrument
South Korea AI Basic Act law
Clause
Art. 36
In scope
Foreign AI business operators above a threshold
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

Designation filed with MSIT; evidence-access runbook for the representative.

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. 36: domestic representative (AIGE-OBL-KR-ART36). 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-art36. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026obligation,
  author       = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title        = {{Korea AI Basic Act Art. 36: domestic representative (AIGE-OBL-KR-ART36)}},
  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-art36},
  note         = {Version 0.5.0}
}