The current Act prohibits the activities of unfairly buying a publication or unlawfully compelling the author of a publication or persons related to a publishing company to buy such publication for the purpose of increasing sales of the publication.
Some publishers are still doing the activities of disturbing the distribution order, such as to compensate losses by purchasing large quantities of publications with many borrowed names and reselling them to distribution bookstores as used books. The Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism may order the publisher, publishing companies, printing companies, business entities related to the distribution (hereinafter referred to as "publishing companies, etc.") to submit related data under the current Act to correct this problem, but the publishing companies, etc., decline to submit the data due to the reasons such as trade secrets and the unclear scope of the data.
Therefore, the amendment aims to clarify the basis for submitting the data by specifying the scope of the data that the publishing companies, etc., shall submit as "distribution-related data such as delivery and transaction records and accounting documents" (Article 23 (2) 2).

Article 23 (Orderly Distribution of Publications)
(2) Where the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism or a Mayor/Do Governor deems it necessary to ensure sound, orderly distribution of publications, he/she may take the following measures against publishing companies, printing companies, business entities related to the distribution of publications, and other persons prescribed by Presidential Decree:
2. Submission order of distribution-related data such as delivery and transaction records and accounting documents