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국가법령정보센터 (Korean Law Information Center), 법제처

Maintains the text in force

The Korean state's legal information centre, run by the Ministry of Government Legislation. It publishes the consolidated current text of every Act, Presidential Decree and Ministerial Decree, each pinned to the date from which that version is in force, and prints the version line at the head of the document - 출입국관리법 [시행 2026. 10. 2.] [법률 제21857호, 2026. 8. 4., 타법개정] - which gives both the commencement date and the Act number that made the version. Three address shapes matter and only the third serves text. https://www.law.go.kr/법령/<name> is a 1.2 KB iframe shell; /LSW/lsInfoP.do?lsiSeq=<N>&chrClsCd=010202&urlMode=lsInfoP&efYd=<YYYYMMDD>&ancYnChk=0 is a second shell with the chrome but no articles; THE BODY IS AT /LSW/lsInfoR.do?lsiSeq=<N>&chrClsCd=010202&efYd=<YYYYMMDD>&ancYnChk=0, which answers an ordinary request and was read for this corpus with `pnpm sources:fetch --direct`. The lsiSeq is version-specific, so an address taken this way is pinned to the consolidation it was read from, which is why every citation of it carries a cut-off. Attached tables (별표) are not in the body: /LSW/lsBylContentsInfoR.do?bylSeq=<B>&lsiSeq=<N> returns hanFlSeq and pdfFlSeq, and https://www.law.go.kr/LSW/flDownload.do?flSeq=<pdfFlSeq> is the table as a PDF with a text layer. The site also carries the government's English translations at /LSW/eng/engLsInfoR.do?lsiSeq=<N>, keyed to the English version's own lsiSeq rather than the Korean one.

Maintains the current text of the law as amended, so you can read a provision as it stands today rather than reconstructing it from amendments.

www.law.go.kr

Cannot be cited for

**It consolidates; the Official Gazette (관보) promulgates.** What this site serves is the state's working consolidated text, and where it differs from the gazette the gazette is the instrument. The site says as much about its own comparison tool: 국가법령정보센터에서 제공하는 신구법 비교는 시스템으로 자동 생성한 것으로 참고용으로만 이용하시기 바라며, 정확한 개정내용의 확인은 제·개정이유(제·개정문) 또는 관보를 확인해 주세요. **Its English translations carry no legal effect and say so**, on the page: "ㅇ This English translation of the legislation has been provided by the relevant government ministry solely for the purpose of facilitating understanding of Korean laws. It does not have any legal authority or official effect and may not reflect the most recent amendments." It cannot be cited for the English. **It is not a substitute for the ministerial notices (고시) that carry most of the numbers.** Korean immigration, health insurance, driving and marriage-visa law delegate thresholds to notices of a Minister or a Commissioner, and those are published elsewhere; a reading of law.go.kr establishes the rule and not the figure. **The body address is undocumented and could move.** If /LSW/lsInfoR.do stops answering, re-derive it from the iframe src inside https://www.law.go.kr/법령/<name>.

Re-check every

60 days

Publication rhythm

Continuous. A new consolidated version appears for each statute on the day an amendment comes into force, and the Korean statutes read for this corpus moved repeatedly through 2026: the Immigration Act to 2 October 2026, its Enforcement Decree to 2 October 2026, its Enforcement Rules to 15 September 2026, the National Health Insurance Act to 8 October 2026, the Income Tax Act to 1 July 2026 and its Enforcement Decree to 1 October 2026, the Customs Act to 2 October 2026 and the Road Traffic Act to 1 July 2026. The Nationality Act is the outlier and has not moved since 1 October 2022.

Re-check triggers

a version of 출입국관리법 with an 시행 date after 2026-10-02, or of its 시행령 after 2026-10-02 or its 시행규칙 after 2026-09-15 - these three carry the status-of-residence tables and the stay-period table · an amendment to 별표 1의2 of the 출입국관리법 시행령, which was last amended on 15 September 2026 and carries every long-term status including E-7, F-2 and F-4 · an amendment to 별표 1의3, last amended 12 December 2023, which carries the nineteen permanent-residence qualifications including the pension route at 60 · a version of 국민건강보험법 시행규칙 after 2026-09-28, article 61-2 of which carries the six-month qualifying period for a foreign self-employed insured person · the Presidential Decree made under article 109(11) of 국민건강보험법, added on 22 October 2024 after the Constitutional Court's finding of 26 September 2023, which has not been read · a version of 소득세법 after 2026-07-01 or of its 시행령 after 2026-10-01, which carry the 183-day test and the five-year remittance basis · a version of 국적법 after the one in force on 2022-10-01, which would be the first change to it in four years · an amendment to 별표 3 of the 도로교통법 시행령, last amended 9 June 2026, which decides how much of the driving test a foreign licence waives

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