(Assault or Disturbance against Those Engaged in or Facilities Related to Election Affairs Management)

(1) Any person who assaults, threatens, or lures, or unlawfully arrests or detains a member or employee of the election commission, a member of
a supervisory group of vote rigging, a member of a cyber supervisory group of vote rigging, a voting clerk, advance polling clerk, a ballot-counting clerk, a witness or any other person engaged in the election affairs, or disturbs the polling station, ballot-counting place, or the election commission office (including offices of a mission, its branch and local office conducting affairs of an overseas election; hereafter the same shall apply in Article 245 (1) ), using violence or threats, or conceals, destroys, damages, or seizes the facilities, installations, equipments, documents, seals related with the election management and supervisory affairs, such as the ballot paper, ballot, balloting aid, computer system, or an electoral register (including electoral registers of reported abode voters and of reported shipboard voters), shall be punished by imprisonment with prison labor for not less than one year nor 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. 7189, Mar. 12, 2004; Act No. 9466, Feb. 12, 2008; Act No. 12267, Jan. 17, 2014>

(2) Any person who commits the acts provided for in paragraph (1) in the intra-party competition that is commissioned pursuant to Article 57-4 shall
be punished by imprisonment with prison labor for not more than ten years or by a fine not exceeding 20 million won.

<Newly Inserted by Act No. 7681, Aug. 4, 2005>