Article 33 (Establishment and Composition of a Personal Information Dispute
Mediation Committee)
(1)A Personal Information Dispute Mediation Committee (hereafter referred to as the
"Dispute Mediation Committee") shall be created to mediate disputes concerning
personal information.
(2)The Dispute Mediation Committee shall consist of not more than 15 members,
including one chairman, and one of standing members.
(3)As stipulated by Presidential Decree, the Minister of Information and
Communication shall appoint or commission members from persons falling under any
of the following subparagraphs. No less than one person falling under each of the
following subparagraphs shall be included as a member:
1.Individuals who presently serve, or have served, in universities as associate professors
or higher and in corresponding positions as researchers in publicly recognized research
institutes majored in a field relating to personal information protection;
2.Grade 4 or higher public officials or individuals in corresponding positions who
presently work, or have worked, in public institutions and have experience
administering personal information protection concerns;
3.Individuals who hold the qualifications of judges, prosecutors, or attorneys-at-law;
4.Individuals who presently work, or have worked, as officers in information and
communications service user organizations;
5.Individuals who presently work, or have worked, as officers in information and
communications service provider organizations;
6.Individuals recommended by non-profit nongovernmental organizations created in
accordance with Article 2 of the Assistance for non-profit Nongovernmental
Organizations Act.
(4)Three years shall be the term of office for the members and they may be reappointed
or recommissioned.
(5)The Minister of Information and Communication shall appoint the chairman from
among the members.
(6)A secretariat shall be created in the Korea Information Security Agency, which was
created in accordance with Article 52, to support the Dispute Mediation Committee's
affairs.
Article 34 (Guarantee of Members' Status) None of the members shall be dismissed
or discharged against their will with the exception of when they are sentenced to the
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