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Mobile ID / Ministry of the Interior and Safety

Under the Electronic Government Act promulgated last February, the types of eight mobile identification cards, including resident registration cards and driver's licenses, along with the security obligations of issuing agencies, will be explicitly defined by statute starting on the 28th. Mobile IDs can only be issued to a single smartphone under the applicant's name, and identity verification procedures prior to issuance will be made mandatory, allowing citizens to use them with greater confidence.

The Ministry of the Interior and Safety announced on the 27th that the Enforcement Decree of the Electronic Government Act, which specifies the types of mobile IDs and measures to ensure security and reliability, will take effect on the 28th.

Accordingly, the types of IDs eligible for mobile issuance are clearly specified. These include resident registration cards, driver's licenses, disability registration cards, national veterans registration cards, alien registration cards, permanent resident cards, domestic residence report cards for foreign-nationality Koreans, and public official identification cards.

Citizens will now be able to clearly identify which mobile IDs are legally protected under the Electronic Government Act. In particular, they will be able to use mobile IDs more safely against fraudulent acts such as unauthorized use and forgery.

At the same time, measures that issuing agencies must comply with when issuing mobile IDs have also been specified.

Issuing agencies must verify the applicant's identity before issuing a mobile ID and may issue it to only one smartphone registered under that person's name. The validity period of electronic information used to encrypt identity credentials is limited to three years.

In addition, issuing agencies must maintain the accuracy and currency of information contained in mobile IDs and notify the Ministry of the Interior and Safety of issuances or revocations through the common mobile ID infrastructure. The ministry has also established the legal basis for linking systems with the common mobile ID platform it operates, preventing individual issuing agencies from building redundant systems.

"We will clarify which mobile IDs citizens can use safely without confusion and continuously expand measures to ensure the security and reliability that issuing agencies must uphold," said Hwang Gyu-chul, head of the Artificial Intelligence Government Bureau at the Ministry of the Interior and Safety.

                                                                                                          Kim Bo-young