Electorate’s Day as Electorate’s Week, while an election commission at each level (excluding an
Eup/Myeon election commission) may hold a ceremony for Electorate’s Day and events incidental to the
ceremony jointly with institutions or organizations that conduct a campaign for fair election. <Newly
Inserted on Jan. 17, 2012>
Article 6-2 (Guarantee of Voting Leave to Persons Employed by Another)
(1) If a person employed by another person is on duty during the early voting period and the election day,
the person may request his or her employer to permit him or her to have voting leave for hours necessary
for voting.
(2) Upon receipt of a request under paragraph (1), an employer shall guarantee the employee to have
voting leave for hours necessary for voting.
(3) An employer shall notify his or her employees, through a web-site, in-house newsletter, or in-house
bulletin board during a period between seven days and three days before the election day, that they may
request voting leave for hours necessary for voting.
Article 7 (Responsibilities of Political Parties and Candidates for Fair Competition)
(1) A political party and a candidate taking part in an election (including a person who intends to become a
candidate; hereafter in this Article, the same shall apply) and a person who canvasses for votes on behalf
of a candidate, in conducting an election campaign, shall comply with this Act and engage in fair
competition, and shall not engage in any conduct detrimental to the good morals and social order in
supporting, propagandizing, criticizing or opposing the platform and policy of a political party or the
political views of a candidate. <Amended on Mar. 12, 2004; Feb. 29, 2008>
(2) Election commissions at all levels (excluding Eup/Myeon/Dong election commissions) shall positively
publicize necessary matters in order to promote policy elections and may subsidize organizations engaged
in promoting policy elections in a neutral manner. <Newly Inserted on Feb. 29, 2008; Jan. 25, 2010>
Article 8 (Responsibilities of Press for Fair Reports)
Where a person who manages and controls broadcasting, a newspaper, wire service, magazine or other
publications, a person who edits, gathers data, writes or reports, or any Internet press agency provided in
Article 8-5 (1) reports or comments on the platform or policy of a political party, political views or other
matters of a candidate (including a person who intends to be a candidate; hereafter in this Article, the same
shall apply) and broadcasts or reports the interview or discussion in which a representative of a political
party, a candidate or his or her proxy participates, he or she or it shall be fair. <Amended on Nov. 14, 1997;
Aug. 4, 2005>
Article 8-2 (Election Broadcast Deliberation Commission)