South Korea Releases Right to Be Forgotten Guidance

South Korean consumers will be able to ask website administrators and search engine operators to restrict the public’s access to personal information in stored digital content as early as June 2016, the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) recently announced.

“These are not legislated requirements but a strong start for the enforcement of the right to be forgotten in South Korea,” a KCC official in the Privacy Protection and Ethics Division told Bloomberg BNA May 2.

The KCC is similar to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and has broad regulatory powers over the country’s media, telecommunications and Internet industries.

The commission unveiled ...