In a recent guest house murder case in Jeju Island, a suspect is found to have been a sex offender, raising concern over safety and crimes in our society.

Most of the guest houses are reported and operated as a rural bed and breakfast business, the number of which reached 25,032 nationwide as of the end of December 2016. Given the nature of such business, women and other guests are more susceptible to such crimes as sexual assualt, requiring restrictions on the operation of a bed and breakfast business in which a sexual assualt has occurred and the hiring of sex offenders, thereby strengthening the prevention from sexual assault.

Therefore, this Amendment aims to introduce provisions such as the closure and suspension of a lodging business under the Public Sanitation Management Act, and to establish a legal basis for the closure of a business place where a crime which is in violation of the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment, Etc. of Sexual Crimes is reported (Article 89 (1) and Article 90-2 newly inserted).

Allow the order for closure, etc., of a rural bed and breakfast business place when a rural bed and breakfast business operator is informed of the fact that he/she violates the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment, Etc. of Sexual Crimes by the head of the relevant administrative agency (Article 89)

A person who receives an order for closure due to a violation of the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment, Etc. of Sexual Crimes shall not conduct rural bed and breakfast business of the same kind until two years have passed since he/she was subjected to such order for closure (Article 90-2)