Korean Hotels no longer provide free toiletries from March 2024, and other new laws

Starting in March, hotels will no longer be able to provide convenience items such as disposable toothbrushes for free.

In addition, the reconstruction burden for long-term owners of one home per household will be reduced by up to 70%.

The Ministry of Government Legislation announced on the 29th that a total of 74 new laws, including these, will be implemented next month.

First, in accordance with the Act on the Promotion of Saving and Recycling of Resources, which takes effect on the 29th of next month, lodging establishments with more than 50 rooms must suppress the use of disposable products and must not provide them for free.

Previously, it was prohibited to provide free disposable products in group cafeterias, food service businesses, bathhouse businesses, sports facilities, etc., and the same standard applies to hotels with more than 50 rooms.

If disposable products are provided free of charge in violation of this rule, a fine of up to 3 million won will be imposed. 

Additionally, in principle, provision of disposable products free of charge is prohibited in group cafeterias and food service establishments, and in cases of packaging or delivery, disposable products may be provided free of charge. 

However, in the future, even in the case of packaging or delivery, customers should be able to choose whether to use disposable products through unmanned information terminals such as delivery applications and kiosks.

In addition, from the 27th of next month, the Act on Recovery of Reconstruction Excess Profits will come into effect, which will reduce the burden of reconstruction on those who have owned apartments subject to reconstruction for a long time.

According to the Act on Recovery of Excess Profits from Reconstruction, which will come into effect on the 27th of next month, if a single homeowner per household who does not own a house other than the house subject to reconstruction holds the house for more than 6 years, a portion of the burden is reduced in proportion to the holding period. do.

If a single homeowner per household who does not own a house other than the house subject to reconstruction holds the house for more than 6 years, a portion of the burden is reduced in proportion to the holding period. 

If held for more than 6 years but less than 7 years, the reduction rate is 10%, and if held for more than 20 years, the reduction rate increases to 70%.

In this case, the target person must own one house per household at the time the levy ends, and houses owned for unavoidable reasons such as inheritance or marriage are excluded when calculating the number of houses.

Additionally, senior citizens will be able to postpone the payment of reconstruction fees. If you are over 60 years old and own one home per household and provide collateral equivalent to the reconstruction fee, deferment of payment may be permitted. However, if a house is sold or donated, the permission to defer payment is canceled, and in this case, interest must be paid in addition to the deferred contribution. 

Starting from the 22nd of next month, in accordance with the enforcement of the Enforcement Decree of the Game Industry Promotion Act, good self-employed persons who have suffered damage such as when a youth forged or altered an ID card and the actual age was not known, or when the age could not be verified due to threats, etc., will be exempted from administrative disposition. do.

Games are classified into those for all users, those for 12-year-olds, those for 15-year-olds, and those that are not for use by teenagers. Until now, if PC room operators allowed users to use games in violation of the classification classification, they were subject to sanctions, including suspension of business for up to six months, without exception.

In addition, ticket scalping using macro programs is prohibited to prevent selling tickets to famous singers’ concerts at dozens of times more expensive.

In accordance with the Performance Act, which will come into effect on the 22nd of next month, anyone who sells tickets, etc. or purchases performance tickets, etc. using a so-called ‘macro program’ that automatically and repeatedly inputs specified commands into the information and communications network without the consent of the person entrusted with the sale. It should not be resold for additional money.

Anyone who illegally sells admission tickets using these programs will be subject to imprisonment for up to one year or a fine of up to 10 million won.

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