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Korea AI Basic Act Art. 34: measures for high-impact AI

A risk management plan, an explanation plan, a user-protection plan, human management and supervision, and documents showing the measures; publish the main content and keep the evidence for five years (Decree Art. 27)

By Reviewed

From clause to evidenceThe chain from Korea AI Act Art. 34 to its evidence record, in 6 steps; the text alternative lists them and the facts under the figure state each in full.Clause: South Korea AI Basic Act, Art. 34ClauseKorea AI ActArt. 34Duty holder: Operators of high-impact AIDuty holderOperators ofhigh-impact AIApplies from: 2026-01-22 (Grace period)Applies from2026-01-22Grace periodArtefact: Risk management, explanation and user-protection plans; named human overseer; published summary; five-year evidence storeArtefactRiskmanagement,…Layers: Layer 01 Govern-as-Code and Layer 02 Inventory & Transparency and Layer 04 Runtime Controls & Observability and Layer 05 Assurance & Continuous ComplianceLayersLayer 01Layer 02Layer 04Layer 05Evidence record: the common evidence record (Evidence record v1)Evidence recordEvidence recordv1Same topic elsewhere: no crosswalk topic files this clause yetAs of 2026-09-24 · illustrative, not a claim of conformity From clause to evidenceThe chain from Korea AI Act Art. 34 to its evidence record, in 6 steps; the text alternative lists them and the facts under the figure state each in full.Clause: South Korea AI Basic Act, Art. 34ClauseKorea AI Act · Art. 34Duty holder: Operators of high-impact AIDuty holderOperators of high-impact AIApplies from: 2026-01-22 (Grace period)Applies from2026-01-22 · Grace periodArtefact: Risk management, explanation and user-protection plans; named human overseer; published summary; five-year evidence storeArtefactRisk management, explanation…Layers: Layer 01 Govern-as-Code and Layer 02 Inventory & Transparency and Layer 04 Runtime Controls & Observability and Layer 05 Assurance & Continuous ComplianceLayersLayer 01Layer 02Layer 04Layer 05Evidence record: the common evidence record (Evidence record v1)Evidence recordEvidence record v1Same topic elsewhere: no crosswalk topicfiles this clause yetAs of 2026-09-24illustrative, not a claim of conformity
From clause to evidence Build the artefact, then file every output it produces as a record that names AIGE-OBL-KR-ART34. Drawn from chapter 08.
Text alternative
  • Clause: Korea AI Act, Art. 34.
  • Duty holder: Operators of high-impact AI.
  • Applies from: 2026-01-22, Grace period.
  • Artefact: Risk management, explanation….
  • Layers: Layer 01, Layer 02, Layer 04, Layer 05.
  • Evidence record: Evidence record v1.
  • Record schema: Evidence record.
  • No crosswalk topic files this clause yet.
When this obligation appliesThe date of AIGE-OBL-KR-ART34 on a time axis, against its review date 2026-09-24.2024202620282030As of 2026-09-242026-01-22 · Grace periodMSIT holds back fact-findingand fines for a guidance periodof at least one year, while theduty applies2026-01-22 · Grace period · MSIT holds back fact-finding and fines for a guidance period of at least one year, while the duty appliesSource: Obligation register(chapter 08)
When this obligation appliesThe date of AIGE-OBL-KR-ART34 on a time axis, against its review date 2026-09-24.2026-01-22 · Grace periodMSIT holds back fact-finding and fines for a guidanceperiod of at least one year, while the duty applies2024202620282030As of 2026-09-242026-01-22 · Grace period · MSIT holds back fact-finding and fines for a guidance period of at least one year, while the duty appliesSource: Obligation register (chapter 08)
When this obligation applies The first date in the row's status, then each later step: filled once its date has passed, outlined while it is still ahead of the review date.
Data table: the dates
Dates of AIGE-OBL-KR-ART34
DateStepDetail
2026-01-22Grace periodMSIT holds back fact-finding and fines for a guidance period of at least one year, while the duty applies
Id
AIGE-OBL-KR-ART34
Instrument
South Korea AI Basic Act law
Clause
Art. 34
In scope
Operators of high-impact AI
Authority
MSIT
Applies from
Grace period · MSIT holds back fact-finding and fines for a guidance period of at least one year, while the duty applies

The artefact that evidences it

Risk management, explanation and user-protection plans; named human overseer; published summary; five-year evidence store.

Patterns that build it

No pattern in the catalogue names this clause on its "Maps to" line yet; the artefact above is the engineering answer.

Source

Chapter 08, section South Korea, article by article, checked against its sources on the review date above.

Machine-readable

Cite this obligation

García Aibar, J. (2026). Korea AI Basic Act Art. 34: measures for high-impact AI (AIGE-OBL-KR-ART34). In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/obligations/aige-obl-kr-art34. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026obligation,
  author       = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title        = {{Korea AI Basic Act Art. 34: measures for high-impact AI (AIGE-OBL-KR-ART34)}},
  howpublished = {In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {0.5.0},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url          = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/obligations/aige-obl-kr-art34},
  note         = {Version 0.5.0}
}