7. An Internet press agency accessed by not less than 100,000 users daily on average during three
months immediately before the end of the preceding year.
(4) If the competent deliberative committee on public opinion polls relating to election finds that the
contents of a report submitted in accordance with paragraph (3) fail to comply with this Act or guidelines
for conducting public opinion polls relating to election, it may request to supplement the report before
conducting the relevant public opinion poll. If a person has an objection to a request for supplementation,
he or she may file the objection, in writing, with the competent deliberative committee on public opinion
polls relating to election. <Newly Inserted on Feb. 13, 2014; Feb. 8, 2017>
(5) Any person who conducts a public opinion poll with regard to an election shall disclose the name and
telephone number of the opinion polling institution or organization before it asks persons polling
questions, select persons to be polled, who can represent all the classes subject to the poll, but shall not
commit any of the following acts: <Newly Inserted on Nov. 14, 1997; Jan. 25, 2010; Feb. 29, 2012; Feb. 13,
2014; Dec. 24, 2015; Feb. 8, 2017>
1. Practices in which questions are made of vocabulary or sentences biased to a particular political party
or candidate;
2. Practices in which those to be polled are urged to give answers, or where questions are made to lead
them to give answers according to the intention of the inquiring person or where the views of those
polled are distorted;
3. Practices in which inquiries are made in ways that amusement or other gambling spirit is incited or
providing a discount on the phone bill exceeding the discount on phone bill that may be provided
pursuant to paragraph (13);
4. Practices in which the name of those polled or the contents implicating it are disclosed.
(6) Where any person publishes or reports the results of a public opinion poll on election, he or she shall
publish or report matters specified by guidelines for conducting public opinion polls, and an institution or
organization conducting a public opinion poll on election shall keep, for a period of six months after the
election day, all those materials which are related to the public opinion poll, including necessary materials
to evidence credibility and objectivity of polling, such as polling plans, selection of those to be polled,
sampling, making of questionnaire, and analysis of outcomes, and collected answer sheets and results
analysis materials, etc. <Newly Inserted on Nov. 14, 1997; Jan. 25, 2010; Feb. 29, 2012; Feb. 13, 2014; Dec. 24,
2015>
(7) When an institution conducting public opinion polls relating to election intends to publish or report the
results of the opinion poll, it shall register matters specified by guidelines for conducting public opinion
polls on election on the website of the National Election Survey Deliberation Commission. In such cases,
where the institution conducting public opinion polls relating to election at the request of a third person, a
person who has requested the relevant public opinion poll shall notify the institution conducting public
opinion polls relating to election of the scheduled time and date for publishing or reporting the results of
the relevant public opinion poll; and the institution conducting public opinion polls relating to election
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