(Persons Ineligible for Election)

A person who falls under any of the following subparagraphs as of the election day shall be ineligible for election:

<Amended by Act No. 12149, Dec. 30, 2013; Act No. 12393, Feb. 13, 2014>

1. A person who falls under Article 18 (1) 1, 3, or 4;

2. A person who is sentenced to imprisonment without prison labor or a heavier punishment and whose sentence is not invalidated;

3. A person whose eligibility for election is suspended or forfeited by a court judgment or by any other Act;

4. Any of the following persons who committed a crime under Article 166 of the National Assembly Act (including persons upon whom a sentence imposed has become invalidated): 

(a) A person in whose case five years have not passed yet since a sentence of a fine not exceeding five million won or any heavier punishment, imposed upon the person, became final and conclusive;

(b) A person in whose case ten years have not passed yet since a sentence of suspension of execution of a punishment, imposed upon the person, became final and conclusive; 

(c) A person in whose case ten years have not passed yet since the person was finally and conclusively exempted from the execution of a sentence of imprisonment with prison labor, imposed upon the person, or since the execution of such a sentence was completed or remitted;

5. A person in whose case ten years have not passed yet since the sentence of a fine, imposed upon the person for the commission of a
crime under Article 230 (6), became final and conclusive (including a person upon whom such a sentence imposed became invalidated).