{"id":1034995,"date":"2026-09-14T07:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T02:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034995"},"modified":"2026-09-14T07:45:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T02:15:43","slug":"south-koreas-expanded-espionage-law-takes-effect-amid-push-to-protect-chip-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/14\/south-koreas-expanded-espionage-law-takes-effect-amid-push-to-protect-chip-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea&#8217;s expanded espionage law takes effect amid push to protect chip technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL: South Korea&#8217;s expanded espionage law takes effect on Sunday, broadening espionage \u200boffences beyond acts involving North Korea \u200bto include all foreign countries as Seoul seeks to protect \u200bkey technologies amid intensifying competition in semiconductors and other strategic industries. <\/p>\n<p>The National Assembly passed the revised Criminal Act on February 26 after years of criticism that existing laws \u200cwere ill-suited to \u2060punish \u2060technology and industrial espionage involving non-North Korean actors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL: South Korea&#8217;s expanded espionage law takes effect on Sunday, broadening espionage \u200boffences beyond acts involving North Korea \u200bto include all foreign countries as Seoul seeks to protect \u200bkey technologies amid intensifying competition in semiconductors and other strategic industries. The National Assembly passed the revised Criminal Act on February 26 after years of criticism that existing laws \u200cwere ill-suited to \u2060punish \u2060technology and industrial espionage involving non-North Korean actors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035020,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034995\/revisions\/1035020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}