The Korea Foundation (hereinafter, the Foundation) does not use personal information for any purposes other than the following purposes. The Foundation will seek prior consent of users before any changes to such purposes are made.

A. Membership Management

The Foundation collects a minimum amount of personal information required to provide customer services, handle complaints, and implement its programs.

B. New Service Development, Marketing, and Advertisement

The Foundation uses personal information obtained under law and with the consent of information subjects in satisfaction survey, statistics analysis, and smooth communication with customers to offer better services.

The Foundation collects and retains personal information under relevant laws and regulations and with information subjects’ consent only. Personal information files retained by the Foundation are as follows:

It is, in principle, prohibited to provide personal information retained by the Foundation to athird party, except the following cases:

A. For the purpose of collection, the Foundation may provide personal information to athird party when

• information subjects give additional consent,
• there are applicable laws or such provision is indispensable for fulfilling legal obligations,
• such provision is indispensable for conducting activities of public agencies specified by laws,
• or such provision is evidently necessary to protect the urgent interests of information subjects or athird party without prior consent because of incorrect address or because information subjects or theirlegal representatives are in no condition to express their opinion.

B. For other purposes, the Foundation may provide personal information to a third partywhen

except when there is a concern for unjust infringement on the interests of information subjectsor a third party

• information subjects give additional consent,
• there are special regulations specified in other laws,
• such provision is evidently necessary to protect the urgent interests of information subjects or a thirdparty without prior consent because of incorrect address or because information subjects or their legalrepresentatives are in no condition to express their opinion,
• such provision is necessary for the purpose of statistics and academic research, and in this case,information should be provided in a way that it cannot potentially identify a specific individual,
• activities specified by laws cannot be conducted unless personal information is used for other purposes orprovided to a third party (in this case, a protection committee’s prior deliberation and decision isrequired),
• it is necessary to provide information to foreign governments or international organizations to implementtreaties or international agreements,
• such provision is necessary to conduct crime investigation and prosecution,
• such provision is necessary for court proceedings,
• or such provision is necessary for the execution of a sentence, care and custody.

When entrusting personal information processing, the Foundation abides by Article 26 of the Personal Information Protection Act. Accordingly, the Foundation stipulates, in a written document, obligations and responsibilities, including the prohibition of personal information processing for purposes other than entrusted services, technical and managerial protection measures, restriction on re-entrustment, supervision of the entrusted party and compensation for damages, and supervises whether the entrusted party safely handles personal information.

Users may exercise their rights as Information Subjects as follows: The Foundation may entrust a third party with personal information processing under Article 26 “Restrictions on Personal Information Processing Entrustment” of the Personal Information Protection Act. The Foundation shall make an online announcement of relevant information including purposes, content and period of entrustment, and the entrusted party’s name, address and contact information.

A. Access to Personal Information for Inspection Under Article 35 “Access to Personal Information” of the Personal Information Protection Act, information subjects may request access to personal information retained by the Foundation.

• Requester (information subject) – Request using a form – Korea Foundation President
• Korea Foundation President – Notification of request results within 5 days – Requester (information subject)
• Korea Foundation President – Within 10 days after request collection – Access implementation

For application, please refer to the personal information access request form.Please be informed, however, access may be restricted in the following cases under Item 5, Article 35 of the Personal Information Act:

• Certain laws prohibit or restrict such access
• There is a possibility of harm to other people’s life or body, or unjustly infringement of their property or interests.
• There is a possibility of causing serious impediment to any of the following affairs of pubic organizations:
  • Affairs related to the implementation of achievement, skill and recruitment examinations, and the screening of qualifications
  • Affairs related to inspection and investigation in progress under other laws

B. Correction and Deletion of Personal Information

Information subjects may request the correction or deletion of personal information retained by the Foundation under Article 36 “Correction and Deletion of Personal Information” of the Personal Information Protection Act. They, however, are not allowed to make a request for the deletion of personal information if the collection of such information is stipulated under other laws.

• Scope of correction/deletion request
• Correction of information incorrectly recorded
• Deletion of content not applicable to certain categories

  For application, please refer to the personal information correction/deletion request form.

• Procedures of request for correction or deletion.

  

  요구인(정보주체)

  서식에 따른 청구

  한국교류재단 이사장

  10일이내 정정조치결과통지서 송부(1회에 한하여 연장 가능)

• Requester (information subject) – Request using a form – Korea Foundation President
• Korea Foundation President – Notification of request results within 10 days (may be extended just once) – Requester (information subject)

C. Discontinuance of Personal Information Processing

Information subjects may request the discontinuance of the processing of personal information retained by the Foundation under Article 37 “Discontinuance of Personal Information Processing” of the Personal Information Protection Act.

For application, please refer to the personal information access request form. The Foundation, however, may refuse to accept the request for the discontinuance of personal information processing under Item 2, Article 37 of the Personal Information Protection Act in the following cases:

• There are special regulations in laws or such refusal is indispensable for fulfilling legal obligations.
• There is a concern for unjust infringement of other peoples’ life, body, property, or other interests.
• Public organizations cannot implement their programs and activities stipulated by other laws if not allowed to process personal information.
• Personal information processing is needed to offer services and fulfill contract signed by information subjects who have not made clear their intention to terminate such contract.

D. Users may refuse to accept users’ agreement and privacy policy when signing up for membership. In this case, posting and the use of additional services may be partially restricted.

E. When signing up, users may fill in personal information selectively, if necessary. There is no disadvantage in receiving services in the case of such selective registration.

Please refer to the aforementioned “2. Collection and Retention of Personal Information” regarding the types of personal information processed by the Foundation.

A. Purpose of Using Cookies

The Foundation uses cookies to offer better services to users by identifying website use pattern, number of users, and other information.

B. Installation, Operation, and Refusal of Cookies

• Users have the right to choose the installation of cookies. They, therefore, may select options in their webbrowsers to allow the use of all the cookies, to confirm each time cookies are saved, or to refuse to save allthe cookies.
• When users refuse to save cookies, they may have difficulties in using some services that need login.
• Installation or refusal of cookies can be made with the following methods (in case of Internet Explorer):
  1. 1Select [Internet Options] from the [Tools] menu.
  2. 2Click the [Personal Information] tab.
  3. 3Set privacy level.