Ministry of Government Legislation Conducts Comprehensive Review of Unreasonable Administrative Regulations... Cabinet Approves Amendments to 25 Statutes

Partial Amendments to 25 Statutes Overseen by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Initiated by the Ministry of Government Legislation

The Ministry of Government Legislation (headed by Chancellor Cho Woncheol) announced that, in an effort to enhance the coherence of the national legal system, partial amendments to 25 statutes under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport were approved at the Cabinet meeting on September 8, 2026.

This year, the Ministry of Government Legislation is conducting an unprecedented comprehensive review of around 3,500 administrative regulations in order to identify and revise unreasonable regulations that conflict with the current legal framework. So far, approximately 3,300 regulations have been reviewed. The ministry began its full-scale improvement process with the statutes overseen by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, as they were the first to be fully surveyed. For common improvement items—such as procedures for enforcing penalty surcharges and the refinement of citation provisions—the Ministry of Government Legislation consolidated related statutes (25 Presidential Decrees and 21 Ministerial Ordinances) and carried out batch revisions accordingly.

This round of amendments brings penalty surcharge enforcement and collection provisions into line with higher statutes. It also corrects discrepancies that arose when amendments to superior statutes or other statutes were not properly reflected. Through these measures, the overall quality of the national legal system is expected to improve.

The Ministry of Government Legislation stated that it will complete the comprehensive review of around 3,500 administrative regulations by the end of this year, and, in addition to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, will sequentially carry out the batch revision of statutes under the jurisdiction of other agencies—such as the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and the Korea Fair Trade Commission—once their reviews are completed, all by year-end.

Chancellor Cho Woncheol said, "Based on these revised statutes, we will continue to devote efforts to maintaining and improving the quality of statutes so that the daily lives of the public and business activities can proceed smoothly."

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