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  "node_id": "kr-act-special-cases-punishment-sexual-crimes-article-14-2-deepfake-2024-amendment",
  "title": "South Korea Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment of Sexual Crimes - Article 14-2 (Fabricated/Edited Video Material) and September 2024 Deepfake Amendments (Production, Distribution, Possession, Viewing)",
  "domain": "Cybersecurity",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "last_updated": "2026-06-03",
  "bluf": "South Korea's Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment of Sexual Crimes (성폭력범죄의 처벌 등에 관한 특례법) criminalises specific sexual offences including those committed using cameras and edited media. Article 14-2 (Distribution etc of Fabricated Edited Video Material) criminalises the synthesis or processing of a person's photograph, video, or audio recording with the purpose of distributing the content in a form that may cause sexual desire or shame against the will of the person; the original (pre-2024) penalty was imprisonment up to 5 years or a fine up to 50 million won. The National Assembly passed amendments on 26 September 2024 to address the deepfake sex crime crisis: (1) the maximum sentence for production and distribution under Article 14-2 was raised from 5 years to 7 years; (2) a new offence was introduced criminalising the possession, purchase, storage, or viewing of deepfake sexual content with imprisonment up to 3 years or a fine up to 30 million won (approximately 22,500 US dollars); (3) lawmakers added a clause protecting individuals who unknowingly viewed or possessed the illegal content from punishment, preserving the mens rea requirement; (4) related amendments to the Sexual Violence Prevention and Victims Protection Act, the Youth Protection Act (Cheonsonyeon Bohobeop), and the Act on the Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection (the Telecommunications Network Act) extended the enforcement architecture. The amendments respond to a 2024 deepfake sexual abuse crisis primarily affecting underage and young adult women including Telegram-distributed deepfakes targeting students. Enforcement is led by the Korean National Police Agency Cyber Bureau, the Public Prosecutors' Office Cybercrime Division, the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) and the Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCSC) for platform-level takedown, and the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) for cross-border cooperation. The Korean regime operates alongside the EU AI Act Article 50 deepfake transparency obligations and the US TAKE IT DOWN Act 2025.",
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  "primary_citations_count": 9
}