FIJISHI EPL

South Korea's AI Basic Act took effect January 22 2026 as the first comprehensive AI legislation in Asia-Pacific covering both public and private sectors across eleven high-impact categories including healthcare hiring loan screening and government operations. The Enforcement Decree requires naming a responsible manager with contact information for every high-impact AI system creating named personal accountability through national law. The grace period during which penalties are deferred ends January 22 2027. The explainability requirement remains largely aspirational as MSIT confirmed few global AI firms possess the full technical means to comply. Implementation guidance remained under review as of January 2026. The Enforcement Decree requires interruption and rollback mechanisms but no MSIT technical publication specifies what a constitutionally compliant interruption mechanism looks like at the cryptographic enforcement layer. This paper documents the structural gap between South Korea's world-leading named personal accountability framework and the constitutional command standard required to make that accountability technically defensible when the grace period ends.

Read paper: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20739232
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