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- Suppose the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Special City Mayor, Metropolitan City Mayor, Provincial Governor, Self-Governing Province Governor, or the Head of Si/Gun/Gu (head of an autonomous Gu) discovers equipment, device, information, or program to undermine technical protection measures against the infringement of reproductions (excluding reproductions transmitted through information network systems, hereinafter referred to as “Illegal Offline Reproductions”) or creative work protected by copyrights or under the law. In this case, the responsible person may order the public official in charge to abrogate, delete, or discard such illegal reproductions or programs (Article 133, paragraph 1 of the Copyright Act).

- The Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism may entrust the following institutions to fulfill the duties of abrogating, deleting, or discarding illegal offline reproductions (former part of Article 133, paragraph 2 of the Copyright Act, and Article 70, paragraph 1 of the Enforcement Decree of the Copyright Act).

- If the public official abrogates, deletes, or discards illegal offline reproductions, the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism may request the relevant institution’s cooperation if required (Article 133, paragraph 3 of the Copyright Act).

- Even if there are other laws and regulations on abrogating, deleting, or discharging illegal offline reproductions, the Copyright Act shall be priorly applied (Article 133, paragraph 6 of the Copyright Act).

- Suppose a person transmits programs or information that violate copyrights, infringes on creative works protected under the Copyright Act, or weakens technical protective actions or information (hereinafter referred to as “Illegal Online Reproductions”). In this case, the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism may order the online service provider to take the following measures through the deliberation of the Copyright Protection Deliberation Committee (Article 133-2, paragraph 2 of the Copyright Act).

- The Minister of Culture, Sports, and Tourism shall prepare the Warning Notice or Order of Deletion and Suspension of Transmission and notify such notice or order in writing (including electronic documents) to warn or command the online service provider or reproducer/sender of illegal online reproductions to delete or suspend transmissions (Article 72-2 of the Enforcement Decree of the Copyright Act, and Article 26, paragraph 1 and Appendix Form No. 57 of the Enforcement Rules of the Copyright Act).

- The Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism shall give an opportunity to the following persons to submit a statement in advance: reproducer or sender of illegal online reproductions, etc., or the online service provider commanded to delete or suspend sending illegal online reproductions (Article 133-2, paragraph 7 of the Copyright Act).

- The online service provider shall indicate the following matters on the Notification of Action Results and submit such notification to the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism within five days after receiving the warning about the reproducer or sender of illegal online reproductions, etc., or commanded to delete illegal reproductions or suspend sending them. (Article 133-2, paragraph of the Copyright Act, Article 72-5, subparagraph 1 of the Enforcement Decree of the Copyright Act, Article 26, paragraph 2, and Appendix Form No. 57-2 of the Enforcement Rules of the Copyright Act).

- Suppose the reproducer or sender of illegal online reproductions sent such reproductions after being warned more than three times. In this case, the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism may command the online service provider to suspend the reproducer’s or sender’s account within a specified period of six months through the deliberation of the Copyright Protection Deliberation Committee (Article 133-2, paragraph 2 of the Copyright Act).

- The Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism shall prepare the Order of Account Suspension indicating the following matters and notify such order in writing (including electronic documents) to suspend the account of the reproducer or sender responsible for illegal online reproductions (Article 72-3, paragraph 2 of the Enforcement Decree of the Copyright Act, and Article 26, paragraph 1 and Appendix Form No. 57 of the Enforcement Rules of the Copyright Act).

- After being ordered to suspend the reproducer’s or sender’s account, the online service provider shall promptly notify the reproducer/sender in writing that his/her account will be suspended at least seven days before the account suspension (Article 133-2, paragraph 3 of the Copyright Act, and Article 72-3, paragraph 4 of the Enforcement Decree of the Copyright Act).

- After being ordered to suspend the reproducer’s/sender’s account, the online service provider shall indicate the following matters on the Notification of Action Results and submit such notification to the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism within five days (Article 133-2, paragraph 6 of the Copyright Act, Article 72-5, subparagraph 1 of the Enforcement Decree of the Copyright Act, Article 26, paragraph 2, and Appendix Form No. 57-2 of the Enforcement Rules of the Copyright Act).

-Suppose the online service provider’s bulletin board established on the information network system was ordered more than three times to delete or cease transmissions of illegal online reproductions, etc. (Article 133-2, paragraph 1, subparagraph 2 of the Copyright Act), and the bulletin board characteristics or the amount and features of posted reproductions are considered to infringe on copyrights and harm orders and rules of use severely. In this case, the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism may order the online service provider to suspend operating some or all bulletin board services during a specified period within six months through deliberation with the Copyright Protection Deliberation Committee (Article 133-2, paragraph 4 of the Copyright Act).

- The Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism shall prepare the Order of Suspension of Bulletin Board Operations indicating the following matters and notify such order in writing (including electronic documents) to command the online service provider to suspend bulletin board operations (Article 72-4, paragraph 2 of the Enforcement Decree of the Copyright Act, and Article 26 and Appendix Form No. 57 of the Enforcement Rules of the Copyright Act).

- After being ordered to suspend bulletin board operations, the online service provider shall post the information of bulletin board suspension on his/her website or bulletin board from 10 days before the suspension of services (Article 133-2, paragraph 5 of the Copyright Act).

- After being ordered to suspend bulletin board operations, the online service provider shall indicate the following matters on the Notification of Action Results and submit such notification to the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism within 15 days after the command (Article 133-2, paragraph 6 of the Copyright Act, Article 72-5, subparagraph 1 of the Enforcement Decree of the Copyright Act, Article 26, paragraph 2, and Appendix Form No. 57-2 of the Enforcement Rules of the Copyright Act).