(Interference with Freedom of Election by Shipmaster, etc.)

(1) If a shipmaster or observer commits, or aids and abets a person to commit, any of the following acts, he/she shall be punished by
imprisonment with prison labor for not less than one year nor more than ten years:

<Amended by Act No. 12267, Jan. 17, 2014>

1. Interfering with voting by precluding a person from filing a shipboard polling report or casting a shipboard vote or refusing to affix his/her
signature on a shipboard ballot paper;

2. Casting a shipboard vote with another person’s shipboard ballot paper;

3. Supporting or recommending a particular political party or candidate, forcing a shipboard voter to oppose a particular political party or
candidate, or interfering with freedom of election by any other wrongful means;

4. Soliciting people in a shipboard polling place to vote for a particular political party or candidate or influencing voting otherwise.

(2) Any shipmaster who commits any of the following acts shall be punished by imprisonment with prison labor for not more than ten years or by a
fine of not less than five million won nor more than 30 million won: <Amended by Act No. 12267, Jan. 17, 2014>

1. Failing to notify a shipboard voter of the date, time, and place of shipboard voting in contravention of Article 158-3 (1);

2. Failing to install a shipboard polling place in contravention of Article 158-3 (1) or installing a shipboard polling place in contravention of
Article 158-3 (2); 

3. Barring an observer from attending the election in contravention of Article 158- 3 (3);

4. Failing to keep envelops of shipboard votes and an envelop of shipboard ballot papers pursuant to Article 158-3 (7);

5. Failing to prepare and transmit the records of management of shipboard voting in contravention of Article 158-3 (8) or failing to submit
envelops of shipboard votes and an envelop of shipboard ballot papers pursuant to Article 158-3 (7).

[This Article Newly Inserted by Act No. 11374, Feb. 29, 2012]