(1) A person who opens a sealed or other secretly composed letter, document, or drawing shall be punished by imprisonment or imprisonment without prison labor for not more than three years or by a fine not exceeding five million won.
(2) Any person who detects the contents of another person's sealed or secretly designed letter, document, drawing, picture, or special media records, such as electromagnetic records, using any technical means, shall be subject to the same punishment as referred to in paragraph (1).
(1) A doctor, dentist, herb doctor, pharmacist, druggist, midwife, lawyer, patent attorney, certified public accountant, notary, scrivener or his assistant or any person formerly engaged in such profession who discloses another's secret which has come to his knowledge in the course of the practice of his profession, shall be punished by imprisonment or imprisonment without prison labor for not more than three years, suspension of qualifications for not more than ten years or a fine not exceeding seven million won.
(2) The preceding paragraph shall apply to a person of a religious profession who discloses another's secret which he has learned in the performance of his duties.
The crimes of this Chapter shall be prosecuted upon complaint.