South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission will build brokerage infrastructure to implement the MyData right to request third-party transfers of personal data in the employment and education sectors.

The commission and the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) said on July 14 they began the "2026 MyData brokerage infrastructure pilot support project".

MyData is a right that allows citizens to ask an institution that holds their personal information to send the data to another institution designated by the citizen. The commission is expanding the system from healthcare and telecommunications last year to energy, employment, education, and culture and leisure this year. It plans to broaden the scope to welfare, transport, real estate and distribution in 2027.

The project will identify methods used by data transmitters in the employment and education sectors to identify data subjects and transmit data, and it will establish a transfer system reflecting the characteristics of each sector. In employment, it will pilot the process of transmitting job application and recruitment application information to third parties. In education, it will pilot the transfer of enrolment, course registration, grades and graduation information.

It will also review the full process of personal data transfers, including certification, data standardisation, management of transfer records, linkage with "OnMyData", and requests for self-directed transfers. It also plans to provide a "guide to building transfer systems in the employment and education sectors" so data transmitters can easily build related systems.

The project operator will be a Koscom-led consortium, with the Korea Employment Information Service, Chonnam National University and Hanyang University participating as partner institutions.

Shin Min-pil (신민필), head of the pan-government MyData promotion task force, said, "I hope this will reduce the development burden on new data transmitters as the system expands and implement a stable transfer system so personal information can be used safely."