Korea's AI Framework Act, in force since January 2026, names recruitment first among the judgements it calls high-impact and requires the operator to keep such a system under human supervision

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South Korea, and it binds the AI business operator rather than the recruiter in the room. Article 2(4)(g) defines the high-impact category to include recruitment, loan screening and other judgements or evaluations that materially affect an individual's relationship of rights and obligations — recruitment is the first thing named in that clause, and the loan-screening half of the same sentence is what another page on this site already rests on. Article 34(1) then attaches duties to an operator providing such a system: a risk-management plan, a method for explaining the final output and the main criteria behind it, a user-protection plan, human management and supervision of the high-impact AI, and documents kept so the measures can be checked. The verb there is shall implement. Read the neighbouring article for contrast, because this is the part a summary always flattens: Article 35(1) says the operator shall endeavour to assess the effect on fundamental rights beforehand, which is a best-efforts duty and not the same thing at all, and the flattening always runs toward making the duty sound stronger than it is. Two further limits on how hard this bites. The specifics are left to a presidential decree that is not in this text, and Article 34(2) says the minister may recommend compliance with the measures it publishes. Breaching Article 34(1) also carries no direct penalty: the route runs through investigation and a corrective order, and only ignoring that order reaches a fine. What it does not establish: nothing about how much hiring in Korea is machine-screened, nothing about headcount, and nothing about whether supervision by a person changes any outcome. Human management and supervision is also not defined in the Act itself. One verification note for anyone checking this source: the law portal answers with a normal page while serving none of the statute to a script, because the article text is loaded by JavaScript — the clauses above were read in a browser, not fetched.

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It does not tell you that any Korean employer changed a screening process, and it does not make a person review your application. The duty sits on the operator, the penalty is two steps away through an order nobody has yet been given, and the Act does not say what human management and supervision means. The impact assessment in the neighbouring article is a best-efforts duty, which is a weaker thing than it sounds when quoted alone.

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