South Korea - The Sixth Comprehensive Product Safety Management Plan(2026–2028)

Recently, the Korean government, in collaborationwith 12 ministries and agencies, released The Sixth Comprehensive Product Safety ManagementPlan (2026–2028).Over the next three years, the Plan will leverage data and artificialintelligence (AI) as its core technologies to strengthen full lifecycle product safety management. It also shifts the regulatory approach from reactive enforcement to proactive prevention, with the aim of establishing a comprehensive product safety framework. The key measures are as follows:

1. Strengthen safety risk prevention for cross-bordere-commerce products by expanding market surveillance and product sampling inspections to prevent unsafe products from entering the domestic market.

2. Enhance the product safety regulatory framework by adopting a risk-based approach tailored to product categories and characteristics, with increased oversight of battery-powered products,children's products, and emerging smart products.

3. Leverage AI technologies to monitor product-relatedincidents and online marketplaces, enabling the timely identification and removal of hazardous products.

4. Establish a collaborative product safety governance system involving government authorities, businesses, and consumers to jointly promote product safety management.