{"id":981856,"date":"2025-12-24T07:56:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981856"},"modified":"2025-12-24T08:08:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:38:03","slug":"south-korea-begins-trial-of-mandatory-face-recognition-for-new-mobile-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/24\/south-korea-begins-trial-of-mandatory-face-recognition-for-new-mobile-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea begins trial of mandatory face recognition for new mobile numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul: South Korea on Tuesday launched a trial period for a new policy requiring people to undergo real-time face recognition when registering a new mobile phone number, as the government aims to curb scam attempts using illegally registered accounts. <\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s three mobile carriers &#8212; SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus &#8212; along with mobile virtual network operators, will be required to follow the procedure in both in-person and remote settings under the new policy, which is set to be officially launched in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul: South Korea on Tuesday launched a trial period for a new policy requiring people to undergo real-time face recognition when registering a new mobile phone number, as the government aims to curb scam attempts using illegally registered accounts. The country&#8217;s three mobile carriers &#8212; SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus &#8212; along with mobile virtual network operators, will be required to follow the procedure in both in-person and remote settings under the new policy, which is set to be officially launched in March.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981856","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=981856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}