POSTAL SERVICE ACT

CHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1(Purpose) #

The purpose of this Act is to stipulate fundamental matters regarding postal services and to provide fair and appropriate postal services, thereby contributing to the promotion of public welfare.

[This Article Wholly Amended on Dec. 2, 2011]

Article 1-2(Definitions) #

The terms used in this Act are defined as follows:

1. The term "a postal item" means a letter-post item and parcel postal item;

2. The term "a letter-post item" means any means of delivering intention such as a letter, currency (including a remittance notice) and a small packet item;

3. The term "a postal parcel" means a postal item in which items other than letter-post items are contained;

4. The term "postal charge" means the amount to be paid by a sender or receiver of postal items for the delivery thereof to any postal office;

5. The term "postage stamp" means a voucher issued for the prepayment of postal charges and the promotion of postage stamp collection hobby;

6. The term "certificate indicating a postal charge" means a postcard, an airmail and an envelope on which a seal imprint indicating a postal charge is printed (including that with which a New Year’s card or greeting card is accompanied);

7. The term "letter" means a type of a document or leaflet inscribed with letters, signs, codes, pictures, etc. which is sent to a specific person or a specific address for the purpose of delivering intentions; provided, this shall not include those prescribed by Presidential Decree, such as newspapers, periodicals, books, product catalogs.

[This Article Wholly Amended on Dec. 2, 2011]

Article 2(Management agency and enterprise monopoly) #

(1) The postal services shall be run by the State and governed by the Minister of Science and ICT; provided, the Minister of Science and ICT may require an individual, juristic person, organization, etc. to run part of the postal services, and the related matters shall be determined by separate Acts. <Amended on Mar. 23, 2013; Jul. 26, 2017>

Article 1(Purpose) #

Article 1-2(Definitions) #

Article 2(Management agency and enterprise monopoly) #

Article 2-2 #

Article 3(Privacy protection for postal items) #

Article 3-2(Requests for carriage of postal items) #

Article 3-3(Preferential treatment of postal items) #

Article 4(Rights of carriers to request help) #

Article 5(Passage for mail carriers) #

Article 6(Restrictions on utilization and suspension of services) #

Article 7(Prohibition against seizure of, and exemption from imposition on, items exclusive for postal services) #

Article 8(Right to refuse seizure of postal items) #

Article 9(Quarantine of postal items) #

Article 10(Legal fiction on act by persons with limited capacity) #

Article 11 #

Article 12(Application of the Postal Money Order Act) #

Article 12-2(Support for efficiency of postal work) #

Article 12-3(Delegation of authority) #

Article 13 #

Article 14(Provision of universal postal service) #

Article 15(Provision of extra postal services) #

Article 15-2(Digitization of postal services) #

Article 16(Military post) #

Article 17(Prohibited postal goods, and volume, weight and packaging of postal items) #

Article 18 #

Article 19(Determination of postal charges) #

Article 20(Payment methods of postal charges) #

Article 21(Rights to issue postage stamps) #

Article 21-2 #

Article 22(Validity of postage stamps) #

Article 23(Expiration of liability for payment of charges) #

Article 24(Collection methods of charges in arrears) #

Article 25(Refusal to refund paid or overpaid charges) #

Article 26(Free postal items) #

Article 26-2(Discount of charges) #

Article 27(Requests for declaration of contents and opening of postal items) #

Article 28(Opening postal items in contravention of Acts and subordinate statutes) #

Article 29(Return of illegal postal items) #

Article 30 #

Article 31(Delivery of postal items) #

Article 31-2(Transmission of postal items) #

Article 32(Handling of returned postal items) #

Article 33(Request for identification by postal office) #

Article 34(Duly effected delivery) #

Article 35(Opening of unreturnable postal items) #

Article 36(Disposal of postal items) #

Article 37(Post office boxes) #

Article 37-2(Installation of letter boxes in multi-story buildings) #

Article 38(Scope of compensation for damages) #

Article 39(Limitation on cause for liability) #

Article 40(Limitation on compensation for damage) #

Article 41(Rights to refuse to receive mail) #

Article 42(Claimants) #

Article 43(Short-term extinctive prescription of claims for compensation, remuneration) #

Article 44(Remedy for dissatisfaction with decisions on remunerations) #

Article 45(Subrogation on account of compensation for damage) #

Article 45-2(Reports on letter delivery business) #

Article 45-3(Prohibition against use of similar titles) #

Article 45-4(Reports on suspension and closedown of business) #

Article 45-5(Business improvement order) #

Article 45-6(Closure of business places) #

Article 45-7(Reports and inspection) #

Article 45-8(Hearings) #

Article 46(Offenses of infringing on exclusive business rights) #

Article 47(Offenses of infringing on postal privileges) #

Article 47-2(Offenses of infringing on wartime postal privileges) #

Article 48(Offenses of opening and damaging postal items) #

Article 49(Offense of damaging articles for exclusive use in postal services) #

Article 50(Offenses of refusing to handle postal items) #

Article 51(Offenses of infringing on privacy of letters) #

Article 51-2(Offences of Divulging Secrets) #

Article 52(Offenses of mailing prohibited items) #

Article 53 #

Article 54(Offenses of stripping off postage stamps) #

Article 54-2(Administrative fines) #

Article 55(Punishment for attempted offenses) #