Please refer to the attachment for legal updates concerning connected cars and autonomous-driving vehicles in the Korean auto industry for the first half of 2021.  
 

• Future Level 3 autonomous vehicles must be equipped with autonomous driving information recording systems. 
• Temporary driving permits for autonomous vehicles are expected to come. 
• On December 15, 2020, MOLIT released ethical guidelines for autonomous vehicles, cybersecurity guidelines, and production and safety guidelines for Level 4 autonomous vehicles. 
• Test driving regions have been selected for autonomous driving of unmanned shuttles and robot taxis. 
• MOLIT and the Ministry of Science and ICT are continuing discussions to select the V2X communication standard for C-ITS. 
• By the first half of 2021, national standards for areas such as classification, definition and expression format of autonomous vehicle data will be established. 
• A precision guidance system on over 14,000 km of national roads will be built by 2022. 

[Korean version]