Claim LD12-HQ-C15 (v1.0)

South Korea's AI Basic Act and implementing decree are in force; an at-least-one-year grace policy deferring most fact-finding and administrative fines is reported by the U.S. International Trade Administration as MSIT implementation policy.

Provenance and status

Claim type: FACT (QUALIFIED) (as printed: “FACT / QUALIFIED”)
Publication status: ELIGIBLE (QUALIFIED) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER”)
Verification state: LAW_OR_DECREE: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY; GRACE_POLICY: RELAYED_ORIGINAL_NOT_VERIFIED (GOVERNMENT_RELAYED, PARTIAL_VERDICT) (as printed: “CONTENT VERIFIED for law/decree; GOVERNMENT-RELAYED for grace policy”; verified by: UNKNOWN)
Does not license: That Korea has no enforceable law or that compliance levels are known
Source (field 6, as printed): Korean National Law Information Center; U.S. ITA implementation report
Source type (field 7): LEGAL_PRIMARY, GOVERNMENT_PRIMARY (as printed: “Korean legal primary + government relay”)
Institutional position: Korean legislature/MSIT; U.S. government relay
Maturity (claim evidence / publication maturity): EMERGING (as printed: “EMERGING”)
Recorded date: 2026-09-25
Currentness / correction: This is the current version. No correction or concern relation is recorded on its Sources.

Version

Pinned version v1.0 (entry LD12-HQ-C15--v1.0) — this page never floats to newer evidence.

This pinned version is also the current version.

Versions:v1.0 · current

Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)

“Korean National Law Information Center” → SRC-LD12-KOREA-NLIC-AI-BASIC-ACT-DECREE--v1.0 — Korean National Law Information Center; class LEGAL_PRIMARY (explicit public provenance pin)
“U.S. ITA implementation report” → SRC-LD12-US-ITA-KOREA-AI-BASIC-ACT-REPORT--v1.0 — U.S. ITA implementation report; class GOVERNMENT_PRIMARY (explicit public provenance pin)

Read the originals

SRC-LD12-US-ITA-KOREA-AI-BASIC-ACT-REPORT: open the original

All 25 canonical Claim fields (raw values and normalized values)

#	Canonical field	Canonical value (verbatim)	Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2)
1	CLAIM ID	LD12-HQ-C15	—
2	PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM	South Korea's AI Basic Act and implementing decree are in force; an at-least-one-year grace policy deferring most fact-finding and administrative fines is reported by the U.S. International Trade Administration as MSIT implementation policy.	—
3	CLAIM TYPE	FACT / QUALIFIED	base_types: FACT · qualifiers: QUALIFIED
4	RESEARCH STRAND	A/D — Implementation / steering	—
5	MATURITY	EMERGING	states: EMERGING
6	SOURCE	Korean National Law Information Center; U.S. ITA implementation report	source_ids: SRC-LD12-KOREA-NLIC-AI-BASIC-ACT-DECREE, SRC-LD12-US-ITA-KOREA-AI-BASIC-ACT-REPORT
7	SOURCE TYPE	Korean legal primary + government relay	classes: LEGAL_PRIMARY, GOVERNMENT_PRIMARY
8	INSTITUTIONAL POSITION	Korean legislature/MSIT; U.S. government relay	—
9	SCOPE	Republic of Korea; Act No. 20676 and decree; 2026	—
10	DESIGN	Legal-documentary	—
11	SAMPLE / DATASET	Statute/decree plus implementation-policy report	—
12	MODEL / TOOL / VERSION	n.a.	—
13	COMPARATOR	Formal statutory sanctions vs grace policy	—
14	MAIN RESULT	Law/decree effective; implementation is guidance-first with most fines/investigations deferred except serious harm.	—
15	INFERENTIAL TARGET	Promotion-plus-obligation with asymmetric enforcement timing	—
16	DOES NOT LICENSE	That Korea has no enforceable law or that compliance levels are known	—
17	VERIFICATION STATE	CONTENT VERIFIED for law/decree; GOVERNMENT-RELAYED for grace policy	aspects: LAW_OR_DECREE / CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY, GRACE_POLICY / RELAYED_ORIGINAL_NOT_VERIFIED / GOVERNMENT_RELAYED / PARTIAL_VERDICT · verified_by: UNKNOWN
18	LIMITATIONS	HQ did not locate Korean primary grace-period notice	—
19	CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES	Multiple authoritative English relays concordant	—
20	GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE	South Korea / Korean + English	—
21	DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER	Burden/benefit incidence for startups/users unmeasured	—
22	R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS	D6.1, D6.3, D1, L-B	—
23	WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM?	MSIT primary notice ending/defining grace or first sanctions	—
24	PUBLICATION STATUS	ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER	state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: QUALIFIED
25	RECORDED DATE	2026-09-25	—

Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: D6.1 (SUB_AREA); D6.3 (SUB_AREA); D1 (DOMAIN); L-B (LENS)

Cited by Living Debate versions

LD-12 v0.1

Research-of-record provenance

Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 3c694d7ddf51207c7587d5db4563891b7b75c7b1feb3f725170d8c3d1b0106f9.

Frozen Drive-derived inputs

R08 — LD-12 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0 — LOCKED (v1.0) — Drive ID 1h0qq9KV5f8e8nb3PTHj_dGv77l-syEBs; revision: NOT_EXPOSED_BY_DRIVE_TEXT_EXPORT; Drive modified 2026-09-29T04:45:28Z; block “ENTRY 15 — LD12-HQ-C15 ” SHA-256 ba73195dd1cb9591786b1ce0160396bd2c050860cde72eb364869c584030f4dc; SocioLens — Programme Status & Authority Register v0.6 status “CURRENT.”; frozen fixture fixtures/frozen/r08-ld12-claim-ledger-v1.0-canonical.

Builder decisions (not Drive data)

VERSION = v1.0 — basis: Claim version taken from the canonical ledger artifact version (R08 — LD-12 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0); Implementation Architecture Selection §5 logical_id/version convention.
CURRENT_POINTER = true — basis: SocioLens — Programme Status & Authority Register v0.6 status for "R08 — LD-12 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0 — LOCKED": "CURRENT."
FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-LD12-KOREA-NLIC-AI-BASIC-ACT-DECREE--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 15 — LD12-HQ-C15 cites "Korean National Law Information Center"; the frozen field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's ledger block (fixtures/frozen/r08-ld12-claim-ledger-v1.0-canonical); Drive-derived identity authority (Issue #51 Source inventory, factory-hq decision HQ-ESC-sociolens-next-20261010T163158Z-02 S13): Batch 03 §4; ledger C15 fields 6/7/8; KEY EVIDENCE.
FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-LD12-US-ITA-KOREA-AI-BASIC-ACT-REPORT--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 15 — LD12-HQ-C15 cites "U.S. ITA implementation report"; the frozen field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's ledger block (fixtures/frozen/r08-ld12-claim-ledger-v1.0-canonical); Drive-derived identity authority (Issue #51 Source inventory, factory-hq decision HQ-ESC-sociolens-next-20261010T163158Z-02 S14): Batch 03 §4; ledger C15 fields 6/7/8.
SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-LD12-KOREA-NLIC-AI-BASIC-ACT-DECREE--v1.0 — basis: Issue #5 proof rendering (Architecture Proof Protocol v0.1 AP-08 / Amendment v1.2 §6): explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion — the pinned field-6 Source record "Korean National Law Information Center"; Drive-derived identity authority (Issue #51 Source inventory, factory-hq decision HQ-ESC-sociolens-next-20261010T163158Z-02 S13): Batch 03 §4; ledger C15 fields 6/7/8; KEY EVIDENCE.
SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-LD12-US-ITA-KOREA-AI-BASIC-ACT-REPORT--v1.0 — basis: Issue #5 proof rendering (Architecture Proof Protocol v0.1 AP-08 / Amendment v1.2 §6): explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion — the pinned field-6 Source record "U.S. ITA implementation report"; Drive-derived identity authority (Issue #51 Source inventory, factory-hq decision HQ-ESC-sociolens-next-20261010T163158Z-02 S14): Batch 03 §4; ledger C15 fields 6/7/8.