The current Act prescribes that a building with six or more floors and a total floor area of 2,000 square meters or more shall have an elevator installed therein, and that a building higher than 31 meters shall have an additional elevator for emergency purposes.
In April, a Presidential Decree newly prescribed that at least one of the passenger elevators in any high-rise building shall be installed as an egress elevator as specified by Presidential Decree, but there are no penal provisions regarding the matter.
Critics have pointed out that there have been many high-rise buildings without an elevator for transporting passengers, etc., impeding evacuation during emergencies and posing a risk of major casualties.
Accordingly, the Amendment imposes an administrative fine against any person who has failed to comply with the compulsory installation of egress elevators in high-rise buildings, medical facilities, etc., thereby ensuring the effectiveness of the amended law, facilitating evacuation in emergencies, and more proactively protecting the lives and safety of the public (Article 64, paragraph 3; Article 113, paragraph 1, subparagraph 6 newly inserted).

Prescribe an obligation to install at least one passenger elevator in a medical facility building as an egress elevator (including elevators for passenger transportation) (Article 64, paragraph 3).