5. The right to appropriate redress for any damage arising out of the processing of such
personal information in a prompt and fair procedure.
Article 5 (Obligations of the State, etc.)
(1) The state and local governments shall devise policies to prevent harmful consequences of
beyond-purpose collection, abuse and misuse of personal information, indiscrete surveillance
and pursuit, etc. and to enhance the dignity of human beings and individual privacy.
(2) The state and local governments shall work out policy measures, including the
improvement of legislation, necessary to protect the rights of data subject as stated in
Article 4.
(3) The state and local governments shall respect, promote and support self-regulating data
protection activities of personal information processors to improve irrational social practices
relating to the processing of personal information.
(4) The state and local governments shall conform any enactment or amendment of laws,
regulations or ordinances relating to the processing of personal information to the purpose
of this Act.
Article 6 (Relation with Other Acts)
The data protection shall be governed by this Act, except as specifically provided in other
acts such as the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization
and Data Protection, etc. or the Act on the Use and Protection of Credit Information.
CHAPTER II.
ESTABLISHMENT OF DATA PROTECTION POLICIES, ETC.
Article 7 (Personal Information Protection Commission)
(1) The Personal Information Protection Commission (hereinafter referred to as the
“Commission”) shall be established under the Presidential Office to deliberate and resolve
the matters regarding data protection. The Commission shall independently conduct the
functions belonging to its authority
(2) The Commission shall consist of not more than 15 Commissioners, including one
Chairperson and one Standing Commissioner, who shall be a public official in political
service.
(3) The Chairperson shall be commissioned by the President from among non-public official
Commissioners.
(4) The Commissioners shall be appointed or commissioned by the President from among the
persons stated in any of the following Subparagraphs. In this case, five Commissioners
shall be appointed or commissioned from among the candidates elected by the National
Assembly, and other five Commissioners from among the candidates designated by the
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