Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (국가기술표준원, KATS)
Jurisdiction: South Korea
kats.go.kr
KATS — 국가기술표준원, the Korean Agency for Technology and Standards — publishes South Korea's domestic recalls (국내리콜) through its 제품안전정보센터, the Product Safety Information Centre at safetykorea.kr. A Korean recall proclamation is richer than most: it states the item name, model, brand, the business, the certification number, the measured defect together with the test value and the limit it exceeded, the hazard that follows, and what the owner should do. Its remit is products requiring KC certification under Korea's Electrical Appliances and Consumer Products Safety Control Act; Korean vehicle and marine safety sit with other ministries entirely.
We publish one notice from Korea’s Agency for Technology and Standards. Everything listed below was published on July 4, 2019. That is what we hold, not the range of what Korea’s Agency for Technology and Standards has published.
Korea's register is in Korean and our English rendering sits beneath the original, labelled as ours and never as the regulator's words. Two of KATS's own tabs are deliberately not read: their digest of other countries' recalls, and their testing of goods bought from foreign websites. Neither is a Korean regulatory action, and ingesting the first would publish Korea as the authority for another country's recall.
Check the source yourself
Anything absent from this site is absent from our records, which is not the same as absent from the regulator’s. Search Korea’s Agency for Technology and Standards directly:
safetykorea.kr/recall/recallBoardWe have not yet read the reuse terms Korea’s Agency for Technology and Standards publish for their own material, so none are stated here. Read theirs at the source before relying on anything of theirs beyond what this page quotes.
This page indexes recalls and safety alerts Korea’s Agency for Technology and Standards has published that we have ingested from its own official source. It is not the regulator’s own site; their address is printed above and their own search is linked, and theirs is the authoritative record.