(1) Any of the standing committees and any committee for inspection and investigation of state
administration of the National Assembly may, when it is deemed necessary, ask the Minister of Court
Administration or the heads of agencies or institutions that have filed requests or applications for the
communication-restricting measures or have executed such communication-restricting measures to file a
report on any specific communication-restricting measures, etc., and ask the Minister of Science and ICT
to file a report detailing wiretapping equipment authorized and reports filed in connection with such
wiretapping equipment, respectively. <Amended on Feb. 29, 2008; Mar. 23, 2013; Jul. 26, 2017>
(2) Any of the standing committees and any committee for inspection and investigation of state
administration of the National Assembly may, by a resolution, conduct on-the-spot inspection or other
inspection of wiretapping equipment currently possessed by investigative agencies, telephone switchboard
rooms and other places of agencies that have executed the wiretapping or institutions that have cooperated
in wiretapping. In such cases, any person participating in the on-the-spot inspection and other inspection
shall be prohibited from divulging secrets he or she has learned therefrom without any good cause.
(3) The on-the-spot investigation or other investigations under paragraph (2) shall not be conducted for the
purpose of violating any person's privacy or intervening in any pending trial or the prosecution of a case
under investigation.
(4) The head of any central administrative agency that has executed the communication-restricting
measures, has been commissioned to execute such communication-restricting measures or has cooperated
in executing the communication-restricting measures shall, upon receipt of a request from any standing
committee or any committee for inspection and investigation of state administration of the National
Assembly, file a report on the communication-restricting measures related to Articles 5 through 10 to the
National Assembly as prescribed by Presidential Decree: Provided, That the head of any intelligence and
investigative agency shall file such report with the Intelligence Committee of the National Assembly.
Article 15-2 (Telecommunications Business Entities’ Obligation to Cooperate)
(1) Telecommunications business entities shall cooperate in the communication-restricting measures and
the request for provision of communication confirmation data taken and made under this Act by any
prosecutor, judicial police officer, or the head of any intelligence and investigative agency.
(2) Matters necessary for the cooperation by telecommunication business entities for the execution of
communication-restricting measures under paragraph (1), the period for keeping communication
confirmation data and other matters for the cooperation of telecommunication business entities, shall be
prescribed by Presidential Decree.
Article 16 (Penalty Provisions)
(1) Any of the following persons shall be punished by imprisonment with labor for not less than one year
but not more than 10 years or by suspension of qualification for not more than five years: <Amended on Jan,
14, 2014; Mar. 20, 2018>