language: en · source language: ko · status: in-force · last checked: 2026-09-06

South Korea — Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Arts. 30-4 to 30-6

The operational student-data regime: the national education information system (NEIS, 교육정보시스템), electronic processing of school affairs, and the FERPA-style restriction on providing student records to third parties.

Statute text is Korean (the authentic language); this README is curation.

Applicability to EdTech

• NEIS (제30조의4): the Ministry/교육감 operate the education information system handling school records — the system any deep Korean-school integration would touch.
• Electronic records (제30조의5): school affairs (학교생활기록 included) are processed via the information system.
• Third-party provision restricted (제30조의6): school heads may not provide school-life records or health-examination records to third parties without the student's (and, for minors, the guardian's) consent — exceptions only for supervisory authorities, admission to a higher school, de-identified statistics/research, and criminal investigation. A vendor platform is a third party: Korean deployments need this consent chain or de-identification.

Contents

Enforcement

교육부 / 시·도 교육감; penal provisions for unlawful disclosure in 제67조–68조 (not extracted).

Related

• KR 교육기본법 — the principles layer
• KR PIPA — general privacy law
• KR 원격교육법 — remote-education data rules

Sources

• 국가법령정보센터 — 초·중등교육법

Meta

Statute text in GYOYUKJEONGBOSISTEM.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.