1. Reason for Revision

In accordance with the partial revision of the Information and Communications Construction Business Act (Law No. 19546; promulgated on July 18, 2023; enforced on July 19, 2024), the proposed revision prescribes the details for its implementation, such as buildings and facilities for which the owner or manager of information and communication facilities must comply with the maintenance and management standards, persons who can act as agents for performance inspections and inspection records, and the period of retention of inspection records. In addition, in accordance with the revision of the design performance qualifications for information and communication construction, it aims to regulate such matters as the qualifications required for preparing design documents for information and communication facilities installed in large-scale buildings in order to prevent poor designs and to improve construction quality. In addition, in order to increase the participation of experts and improve the quality of construction works, the revision aims to ensure that information and communication facilities installed in buildings larger than a certain size are designed by information and communication engineers, and to improve other factors related to personal information infringements.

2. Main Contents

a. The revision stipulates that information and communication facilities installed in buildings with a floor area of ​​10,000 square meters or more shall be designed by information and communication engineers (Article 6-2 of the draft).

b. The revision stipulates that, when assigning a special supervisor with a professional engineer qualification among the standards for the assignment of information and communication supervisors, a professional engineer registered in accordance with the Professional Engineers Act shall be assigned (Article 8-3 of the draft).

c. The revision stipulates that, when reporting a change in a construction business or the closure of a business, the document to be verified through joint use of administrative information shall be a business registration certificate, and the resident registration number shall be excluded to protect personal information (Article 23 (3) and Article 24 (3) of the draft).

d. The revision stipulates that, when assigning a special engineer with a professional engineer qualification among the standards for the assignment of information and communication engineers, a professional engineer registered in accordance with the Professional Engineers Act shall be assigned (Article 34-2 of the draft).

e. The revision specifies the buildings and facilities for which the owner or manager of information and communication facilities must comply with the maintenance and management standards, the persons who can act as agents for performance inspections and inspection records, and the period of retention of inspection records (Article 37-2 of the draft).

f. The revision stipulates that the qualification standards for information and communication engineers performing work related to information and communication facilities shall be applied mutatis mutandis to the qualification standards for persons in charge of maintaining and managing information and communication facilities (Article 37-3 and attached Table 5 of the draft).

g. The revision establishes detailed standards for imposing the newly established penalties provided in Article 78 of the Act (Attached Table 10 of the draft).