South Korea will require wireless Internet service operators and cable...
South Korea will require wireless Internet service operators and cable broadcasting service providers to provide immediate warning notification according to disaster severity degrees, the nation’s National Emergency Management Agency said in an Aug. 22 notification to the World Trade Organization…
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade. The WTO circulated the notification Aug. 29. The notification was made because a relevant international standard doesn’t exist or the technical content isn’t in accordance with relevant international standards and because the technical regulation may have a significant effect on the trade of other WTO members. Warning types will include typhoon, flood, downpour, earthquake and others, it said. Global mobile device manufacturers will have to install public warning system-user equipment (PWS-UE) to provide warning notification in devices that are manufactured in or imported to South Korea, that country said. A draft revision calls for PWS-UE installed in devices to provide warning notification in Korean as soon as natural disasters, man-made disasters or other severely urgent disasters happen, it said. “Reception and presentation of warning notifications to the users shall not interrupt any voice calling and warning notifications shall be popped-up on the monitor under any circumstances.” The size of the warning notification is up to a maximum of 180 bytes, which is 90 characters in the Korean language, it said. PWS-UE will provide alerting indication through an audio attention signal or vibration at the discretion of the wireless Internet and cable providers, it said. Comments are due Oct. 28. Jan. 1, 2013, is the proposed date of entry into force.