What 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) requires
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.
Pillar: Cybersecurity · Authority: National Assembly of the Republic of Korea; Ministry of Justice · Version: 1.0.0 · Last updated:
Primary source: https://www.law.go.kr/eng/engMain.do
SHA-256 integrity: dd944e2624c902909a3cef015cf20b8154bb1d0b940a5d0f73982d5c5cd5750a
Primary Citations — 9 traced to source
- Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment of Sexual Crimes (성폭력범죄의 처벌 등에 관한 특례법) Act No. 10258 of 15 April 2010 as amended - the Republic of Korea statute criminalising specific sexual offences including those committed using cameras and edited media; Article 14-2 (Distribution etc of Fabricated Edited Video Material) is the operative provision for deepfake sexual content offences.
- Article 14-2 pre-2024 offence - synthesizing or processing a photograph, video, or audio recording of a person with the purpose of distributing the content in a form that may cause sexual desire or shame against the will of the person was punishable by imprisonment up to 5 years or a fine up to 50 million won; the offence covered both AI-generated deepfakes and earlier non-AI editing techniques.
+ 7 more citations (full bibliography, deterministic workflow, actionable schema and crosswalks) included in the vault unlock — $0.01 via Skyfire / L402 / Direct Base USDC.
Access
- Discovery (free): /api/v1/nodes/kr-act-special-cases-punishment-sexual-crimes-article-14-2-deepfake-2024-amendment.json — 6-field metadata
- Vault (full node): /api/v1/vault/nodes/kr-act-special-cases-punishment-sexual-crimes-article-14-2-deepfake-2024-amendment.json — full 13-key payload, $0.01 USDC (L402/Skyfire/Direct Base)
- Canonical URL: https://bidda.com/intelligence/kr-act-special-cases-punishment-sexual-crimes-article-14-2-deepfake-2024-amendment
- Back to registry: Browse all 10,085 compliance nodes