Guideline on AI Impact Assessment (Article 35 of the AI Basic Act)

Summary

Guidance on the AI impact assessment of Article 35 of Korea's AI Basic Act, a procedure in which operators providing products or services that use high-impact AI assess in advance their impact on people's fundamental rights. The Act asks operators to endeavour to carry it out and requires the State, local governments and public institutions to give priority consideration to assessed products. The guideline explains the concept and legal basis and the main considerations at each stage (preparation, main assessment, follow-up), encourages voluntary assessments for all AI, and appends a report form, examples of how system functions can infringe rights, support information and FAQs.

Language

No English version of this instrument was found. The English title and the summary are the register's own, written from the sources below; for the exact wording use the Korean text.

Safety topics

Status notes

Dated 2026 on its cover (39 pages); NIA's notice of 22 January 2026, the day the Act entered into force, distributed it with the other AI Basic Act guidelines. The assessment is an obligation of effort, which the guideline recommends rather than requires; details may be set by Presidential Decree (Article 35(3)), and Article 28 of the draft Enforcement Decree lists seven elements an assessment must contain, from identifying affected people and rights to an improvement plan. For products and services already offered before the Act took effect, the guideline recommends that operators decide for themselves whether to carry out an assessment. Results of other assessments, including the EU AI Act's fundamental rights impact assessment (Article 27) and assessments under ISO/IEC 42001 and 42005, may be drawn on. The Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI) is named as the dedicated agency supporting assessments. The guideline draws on the EU AI Act, the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice and UNESCO's Ethical Impact Assessment, and is to be updated once international standards are finalised.

Sources

Open the official source https://www.nia.or.kr/common/board/Download.do?bcIdx=28987&cbIdx=99835&fileNo=24

Secondary source: https://nia.or.kr/site/nia_kor/ex/bbs/View.do?cbIdx=99835&bcIdx=28987

Local copy

Verification

History

1. 2026-10-18verification.level: A → B — level computed from the evidence by tools/pipeline.py2026-10-18-refresh-level-rule-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2. 2026-10-18notes: Dated 2026 on its cover and published with the Act's entry into force on 22 Janu → Dated 2026 on its cover (39 pages); NIA's notice of 22 January 2026, the day the — first sentence now gives the day with its source, NIA's notice of 22 January 2026; the rest is unchanged2026-10-18-refresh-level-rule-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
3. 2026-10-18date_published: 2026-01-22 → 2026 — 2026-01-22 -> 2026: the guideline's own text gives only the year (cover '2026'); the day, 22 January 2026, rests on NIA's notice of that day, an announcement, so it moves to the notes (rule 7b)2026-10-18-refresh-level-rule-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
4. 2026-10-14notes: Dated 2026 on its cover and published with the Act's entry into force on 22 Janu → Dated 2026 on its cover and published with the Act's entry into force on 22 Janu — Removed the KOSA help-desk title, which no stored file supports. Replaced 'the EU GPAI Code of Practice safety chapter' with what page 12 says (the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice, with the EU AI Act and UNESCO's Ethical Impact Assessment). Added the draft decree's required elements, the use of other assessments and KISDI's role (pages 8 and 10).2026-10-14-refresh-translation-fixes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
5. 2026-10-14summary: Guidance for the fundamental-rights impact assessment of Article 35 of Korea's A → Guidance on the AI impact assessment of Article 35 of Korea's AI Basic Act, a pr — The instrument's term is 인공지능 영향평가, 'AI impact assessment' (pages 4 and 9); the guideline reserves 'Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment' for the EU AI Act's Article 27 instrument, so the summary no longer calls the Korean one a fundamental-rights impact assessment. 'State bodies must prefer' became 'the State, local governments and public institutions ... give priority consideration', following Article 35(2) (우선적으로 고려하여야) and the definition of 국가기관등 in Article 2(4)(i) (page 13). Added the support annex and the encouragement of voluntary assessments (pages 4 and 5).2026-10-14-refresh-translation-fixes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
6. 2026-10-14english_version: – → {"kind": "none found"} — No English version in the stored copies, and none found in a targeted search on 14 Oct 2026.manual-2026-10-14 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

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EU AI Act European Union · Partially in force

Citation

Ministry of Science and ICT, distributed through the National Information Society Agency (NIA). Guideline on AI Impact Assessment (Article 35 of the AI Basic Act). 2026. https://www.nia.or.kr/common/board/Download.do?bcIdx=28987&cbIdx=99835&fileNo=24. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-18 (level B). Local copy archive/KR-08/2026-10-12/official.pdf retrieved 2026-10-12 04:44:05 UTC, SHA-256 a67ce99e960511d53f537a759aaeba6049faed220e430cc5ee1ff8817c39ea47. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record KR-08.

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