(Prohibition from Buying Party Members, etc.)

(1) No one shall offer any money and goods, property interests or private or public post, or expressing the intention of offering any of them to any competitor (referring to the person who is entered in the electoral register of the intra-party competition) or his/her spouse, lineal ascendant or descendant with the aim of helping him/her win his/her candidacy or preventing him/her from wining the candidacy in the intra-party competition, irrespective of the former's pretext: Provided, That the same shall not apply to any customary act that is prescribed by Regulations of the National Election Commission.

(2) No one shall perform the act of offering the benefits, etc. referred to in paragraph (1) to any candidate (including anyone who intends to become a candidate; hereafter in this paragraph, the same shall apply) with the aim of preventing him/her from becoming a candidate in the intra-party competition or getting him/her to renounce his/her candidacy and every candidate shall not accept the offer of any benefits and any post or approve the intention of offering such benefits and such post. 

(3) No one shall direct, induce or coerce to perform the act referred to in paragraphs (1) and (2).

[This Article Newly Inserted by Act No. 7681, Aug. 4, 2005]