Korea Legislation Research Institute

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**Its translations are not law and it says so on every statute page**: "* Translations provided here are for reference only, and are neither official nor legally effective. * The links provided by an automatic program for the convenience of users may have some errors." It cannot be cited as the text of a Korean statute; the Korean at law.go.kr is. Four divergences were found in a single country's reading and all four change the rule: the English of 소득세법 제1조의2(1)1 attaches 183 days to both the domicile and the residence limb where the Korean attaches it only to the second; the English of 소득세법 시행령 제4조(3)1 says "exceeds 183 days" where the Korean says 183일 이상, 183 or more; the English of 출입국관리법 제18조(1) says a status entitling the holder to "job-seeking activities" where the Korean says 취업활동, employment activity, job-seeking being a different status in the same table; and the English of 재외동포법 제5조(2) makes the military-service bar lapse automatically from 1 January of the year the man turns 41, where the Korean makes it a discretion the Minister of Justice may exercise from that date. **It also lags.** Each translation states the Act it renders: the Immigration Act is translated at Act No. 20677 of 21 January 2025 while the Korean in force on 2 October 2026 is Act No. 21857, and the Enforcement Decree of the Immigration Act is at Presidential Decree No. 35540 of 27 May 2025 against No. 36728 in force. **It does not carry the attached tables** - every Appendix is referred to and none is reproduced - so the status-of-residence lists exist only in Korean. **No translation exists at all for 출입국관리법 시행규칙**, the Enforcement Rules, which carry the stay-period table and the marriage-visa criteria. **Its pages are English with Korean furniture**: the string 법령보기 화면 is printed as a table caption before every article, hundreds of times per document, so a reading from this publisher is a Latin text carrying a non-Latin script in place and `audit:readings` flags every quotation taken near one.