Weekly Legislative Report for the week of November 7, 2022 – November 11, 2022
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1. Proposed Bill(s)
① Act on the Restoration of Fairness in the Digital Asset Market and Establishment of Safe Transaction Environment
This Act safeguards user assets and imposes penalties at the level of the current Financial Investment Services and Capital Markets Act on unfair trading practices involving digital assets, such as the use of nonpublic information and market price manipulation.
② Fairness in Online Platform Intermediary Transaction Act
This Act requires giant online platform intermediaries whose total profits from intermediary trading are at least KRW 500 billion or whose total sales amount is at least KRW 3 trillion to install a “Chinese Wall” (information transmission barrier). The Act also prohibits these intermediaries from unfair trading practices and retaliatory actions and expands the limit of the fines to a maximum of KRW 10 billion if the amount of violation cannot be calculated.
2. Pending Bill(s)
③ Partial Amendment to the Corporate Tax Act
This Amendment lowers the maximum corporate tax rate from the current 25% to 22% and simplifies the current four stages of tax bases into three stages.
3. Promulgated Bill(s)
④ Enforcement Decree of the Act on the Promotion of Employees’ Participation and Cooperation
This Enforcement Decree mandates the attendance of a majority of workers to the election of the workers’ members of a labor-management council and deletes the requirement for candidacy, which demands recommendations from at least ten co-workers.
4. Bill(s) Undergoing Pre-Announcement of Legislation/Administration
⑤ Partial Amendment to the Enforcement Decree of the National Land Planning and Utilization Act
This Amendment mitigates the floor area ratio of industrial complexes with corporations that have strategic technology to a maximum of 1.4 times the legal limit to support investments in expanding production facilities in national high-tech strategic industries such as semiconductors.
5. Serious Accidents Punishment Act ("SAPA") Related Editorials and Columns from Major Dailies