EdLaw
South Korea — Framework Act on Facilitating Digital-Based Distance Education
Korea's dedicated distance-education framework act (2021) — a statute most jurisdictions don't have, governing remote teaching infrastructure, content quality, and the data generated in remote education. Directly on point for a platform serving Korean schools.
Statute text is Korean (the authentic language); this README is curation.
Applicability to EdTech
- Remote-education data (제19조): rules for collecting and processing data arising from remote education, including the condition that further use without data-subject consent is allowed only after pseudonymisation under PIPA 제2조제1호의2 — the statutory frame for learning analytics on Korean pupils.
- Personal-information protection duty (제20조): information collected in the course of remote education may only be processed on a statutory basis, and the Minister/superintendents must maintain policies protecting teachers' and students' personal information during remote education.
- The act also sets operating standards for schools' remote education (제6조), infrastructure duties (제7조) and content quality management (제17조) — not extracted; add on demand.
Contents
| Document | Covers |
|---|---|
| WONGYEOK-DATA.md | 제19조 (원격교육 데이터의 처리), 제20조 (개인정보 등의 보호) |
Enforcement
교육부장관 and 교육감; privacy supervision by the PIPC under PIPA.
Related
- KR PIPA — pseudonymisation definition the act leans on
- BG ЗПУО чл. 115а, PL Prawo oświatowe art. 125a — EU remote-learning siblings
Sources
Meta
Statute text in WONGYEOK-DATA.md is reproduced verbatim in Korean from the official 국가법령정보센터 DRF API by tools/law-go-kr/build_kr.py; verify re-resolves the current MST and fails as soon as an amendment lands.