KC certification

which pairs product testing with factory assessment; safety verification, a test by a designated laboratory; and the supplier's declaration of conformity. Under the first, the manufacturer — including a foreign producer exporting to Korea — or the importer must obtain certification model by model from a safety certification body, which certifies once the product meets the testing and factory-assessment standards notified by the Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy, then re-inspects every two years. Without it the product may not be marked, sold, rented, imported or displayed for sale, and the exemptions are narrow: research, exhibition, goods made or imported for re-export, and certification abroad under a mutual recognition agreement. The Act names it the safety certification mark; the letters KC do not appear in the cited text, so that common appellation is not established by this source.