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Focussing on topics such as big data, cloud computing and healthcare, Wonil Kim, Kwang-Wook Lee and Ji Hye Seol of Yoon & Yang examine how new technologies will affect personal information regulation in South Korea.

On March 22, 2016, Korea took steps to strengthen the protection of personal information in smartphone applications through a partial revision of the Korean Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilisation and Information Protection, etc.