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MFDS rules and guidance for medical device market access, registration, and lifecycle compliance. Each code opens a metadata page with the official source and readable HTML when available.

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법률 제21525호
IVD Medical Devices Act — complete official PDF export, 법률 제21525호
Complete12-page IVD Medical Devices Act Act21525 (promulgated7April2026; displayed consolidation effective header8October2026), with all36article entries,6chapters and6supplementary law groups. Article4 provides that matters concerning IVD devices not provided for in this Act follow the Medical Devices Act; this does not by itself make the whole Medical Devices Act Enforcement Rule universally applicable to IVD. No annex/form entries were displayed for this Act in the official selection UI. Official server-generated consolidated PDF export, not a signed Gazette original. Native search text is qualified by all original page images. Source-page identity and actual browser POST endpoint remain distinct. Source preservation does not establish present applicability, current fee rates, universal review clocks, or completeness of externally referenced instruments.
Registration—Official
MFDS Notice No. 2026-58 (10 August 2026)
Regulations on IVD Approval, Notification and Review — 2026-58 consolidated text
Complete 114-page official IVD regulation with annexes and forms through Notice No. 2026-58 dated 10 August 2026. It includes IVD change procedures, minor-change reporting conditions and the original change-decision flowcharts. Ordinary-device rules do not substitute for this IVD instrument. Native text contains some glyph-order artifacts and omits embedded diagram wording; original full-page figures govern quotation and decision-branch interpretation. Source preservation does not certify blanket current legal effect or whole-country completeness.
Registration—Official
체외진단의료기기법 시행규칙 [별지 제17호서식]
IVD manufacturing/import business change application — Enforcement Rule Form 17
Complete two-page official IVD manufacturing/import business change form, marked amended 18 September 2026. Preserves conditional site, representative and quality-manager evidence, electronic and visit/post fee columns, administrative-information consent and transferor/transferee sanctions acknowledgement. These business-change branches do not establish a universal fee or route for changing a foreign product manufacturer. Original full-page images govern; native text is an explicitly incomplete search layer. Source preservation does not establish current legal effect or whole-country completeness.
Registration—Official
총리령 제2155호
IVD Medical Devices Act Enforcement Rule — complete official PDF export, Ordinance No. 2155 (18 September 2026 version)
Complete 67-page official National Law Information Center PDF export of the Korean IVD Medical Devices Act Enforcement Rule, Ordinance No. 2155 (18 September 2026 version). Preserves Articles 1–41 and inserted articles, the separately marked future Article 36 provision effective 19 September 2027, all 8 displayed supplementary ordinance groups, 3 annexes and 23 forms. Native search text is qualified by all original page images. Captured by normal official browser POST export with law-specific selection; the authority page and actual export endpoint are distinct. Source preservation does not establish present applicability, current fee rates, or completeness of externally referenced instruments.
Registration—Official
체외진단의료기기법 시행규칙 [별표 3]
IVD Medical Devices Act Enforcement Rule Annex 3 — fees, September 2026 insertion
Complete one-page official IVD fee annex, marked newly inserted 18 September 2026. Preserves all initial/business/product-change/new-development and clinical-laboratory certification entries with separate electronic and visit/post KRW columns. Site, representative transfer/inheritance and quality-manager branches are not blanket fees for changing product names, models or foreign manufacturers. Original full-page images govern; native text is an explicitly incomplete search layer. Source preservation does not establish current legal effect or whole-country completeness.
Registration—Official
IVD Medical Devices Act Enforcement Rule, Form 18 (amended 18 September 2026)
IVD product change application — Enforcement Rule Form 18, September 2026 amendment
Complete two-page official IVD change application form, marked amended 18 September 2026. Its front records application categories, printed processing periods, fee columns and procedural steps; its reverse contains administrative-disposition disclosure/acknowledgment for transfer. A blank application form does not establish that every legal-entity or reference-number change qualifies for this route. Source preservation does not certify blanket current legal effect or whole-country completeness.
Registration—Official
Exports carry source + retrieval date

Changes after registration in South Korea

Source-linked rules for common changes to a registered IVD. Read the scope and conditions with each rule; unverified details are listed separately.

Does changing a device brand name or logo require an update?

A change to the registered brand name and a change to logo artwork can follow different rules. The legal manufacturer, device design and intended purpose remain the same.

  • Filing route and prior approval

IVD important, formal no-review and minor branches

Fact-level verified

IVD Rule 24/28 and regulation 19 separately govern important product/business changes and imports. Approval goes to MFDS; certification/notification to NIDS. Regulation 19(5) addresses assignment evidence. Annex 3 changes not needing technical review remain their formal approval/certification/notification route; they are expressly excluded from the residual minor branch together with Annex 4 major changes. Actual minor changes are reported by the end of the month following the quarter. Do not apply an ordinary-MD Annex 3 exemption or its annual-report timing to IVDs.

Conditions
  • The regulation/flow retains stale internal cross-references; the current Rule 24 wording and actual branch are retained, not silently rewritten.
  • Current source compilation does not make the separately future-staged Article 36 requirements current.

Conditions for this question

  • Apply only the actual change and legal actor described in this fact; the question does not make every potential filing compulsory.
  • Change-specific government fees

Other product-change and business-change fee branches

Fact-level verified

The current MD/IVD fee tables list other product change approval at KRW 121000 electronic/135000 visit-post where that category applies. Business-change branches are different: site 45000/50000, representative transfer/inheritance 81000/90000, quality-manager 27000/30000. These are not universal fees for changing a foreign manufacturer name or a model; select the actual application and legal actor. Major clinical/document and certification/notification rows remain distinct.

Conditions for this question

  • Apply only the actual change and legal actor described in this fact; the question does not make every potential filing compulsory.
  • Labels and identifiers

UDI transfer trigger is narrower than every REF change

Fact-level verified

The UDI rule expressly covers MDs and IVDs and excludes export-only products. It assigns codes by model/product-name and packaging level. The current regeneration rule includes domestic-manufactured product-only assignment excluding the business licence, packaging-unit and stated single-use/sterility changes; the old item 2 is deleted. A commercial REF or foreign-company name alone does not establish that domestic-assignment trigger. Match actual approved model and code records before deciding the UDI consequence.

Conditions for this question

  • Apply only the actual change and legal actor described in this fact; the question does not make every potential filing compulsory.
  • Supporting documents

IVD important product and business-change files

Fact-level verified

Use Form 18 for the actual important product change and Form 17 for the business change, with the changed-particular evidence, technical evidence where the actual category requires it, and assignment contract for the specified succession branch. The actual forms include transferor administrative-sanction disclosure/transferee acceptance. A no-technical-review assignment/site branch still has a formal change route; quarterly minor reporting is not a substitute.

Conditions for this question

  • Apply only the actual change and legal actor described in this fact; the question does not make every potential filing compulsory.
  • Change-specific review time

IVD product-change form processing periods

Fact-level verified

Current Form 18 prints approval change periods 60 days with clinical/technical review, 42 with technical review, 10 for other changes, and 5 days each for certification/notification. Form 17 business-licence 15 days/quality-manager 7 days is separate. Applicant 30-day important-change filings, quarterly minor reports, query responses and clock resumption are not these product-review periods. The printed days are not converted to an unsupported elapsed-day unit.

Conditions for this question

  • Apply only the actual change and legal actor described in this fact; the question does not make every potential filing compulsory.
  • Labels and identifiers

IVD-specific label bridge

Fact-level verified

IVD Act 13 applies the listed MD Act 20 label particulars with its express exception and adds the IVD marking, intended use and storage conditions. Therefore align actual manufacturer/importer, product/model and authorisation identity under that bridge; this is direct IVD statutory evidence rather than an assumption from ordinary MD labels. It creates no general old-label sell-through right.

Conditions for this question

  • Apply only the actual change and legal actor described in this fact; the question does not make every potential filing compulsory.
  • Change-specific government fees

Change approval - document review

Source-verified

KRW 551,000–612,000

Per application

Base tariff: electronic application KRW 551,000; visit/post application KRW 612,000. The displayed span distinguishes filing channels, not an uncertainty range. The corresponding IVD Annex 3 item7(b) independently publishes the same two channel amounts. Other IVD transactions are not inferred from this MD tariff row.

Effective from 2026-07-01

Conditions for this question

  • Only an actual change-approval category requiring technical-document review without clinical review.
  • Change-specific government fees

Change approval - documents and clinical review

Source-verified

KRW 1,009,000–1,122,000

Per application

Base tariff: electronic application KRW 1,009,000; visit/post application KRW 1,122,000. The displayed span distinguishes filing channels, not an uncertainty range. The corresponding IVD Annex 3 item7(a) independently publishes the same two channel amounts. Other IVD transactions are not inferred from this MD tariff row.

Effective from 2026-07-01

Conditions for this question

  • Only an actual clinical/technical-review change-approval category.
  • Change-specific government fees

Change certification

Source-verified

KRW 82,000–93,000

Per application

Base tariff: electronic application KRW 82,000; visit/post application KRW 93,000. The displayed span distinguishes filing channels, not an uncertainty range. The corresponding IVD Annex 3 item8 independently publishes the same two channel amounts. Other IVD transactions are not inferred from this MD tariff row.

Effective from 2026-07-01

Conditions for this question

  • Only the actual certification change route to NIDS, not a minor report or approval application.
  • Change-specific government fees

Change notification

Source-verified

KRW 39,000–43,000

Per notification

Base tariff: electronic application KRW 39,000; visit/post application KRW 43,000. The displayed span distinguishes filing channels, not an uncertainty range. The corresponding IVD Annex 3 item9 independently publishes the same two channel amounts. Other IVD transactions are not inferred from this MD tariff row.

Effective from 2026-07-01

Conditions for this question

  • Only the actual notification change route to NIDS, not a minor report or approval application.

How do I update a manufacturer's name without changing the legal entity?

The same legal manufacturer changes its name, potentially alongside the device brand. A transfer to another legal entity is a separate question; permission to combine filings needs its own evidence.

  • Filing route and prior approval

IVD important, formal no-review and minor branches

Fact-level verified

IVD Rule 24/28 and regulation 19 separately govern important product/business changes and imports. Approval goes to MFDS; certification/notification to NIDS. Regulation 19(5) addresses assignment evidence. Annex 3 changes not needing technical review remain their formal approval/certification/notification route; they are expressly excluded from the residual minor branch together with Annex 4 major changes. Actual minor changes are reported by the end of the month following the quarter. Do not apply an ordinary-MD Annex 3 exemption or its annual-report timing to IVDs.

Conditions
  • The regulation/flow retains stale internal cross-references; the current Rule 24 wording and actual branch are retained, not silently rewritten.
  • Current source compilation does not make the separately future-staged Article 36 requirements current.

Conditions for this question

  • Apply only the actual change and legal actor described in this fact; the question does not make every potential filing compulsory.
  • Change-specific government fees

Other product-change and business-change fee branches

Fact-level verified

The current MD/IVD fee tables list other product change approval at KRW 121000 electronic/135000 visit-post where that category applies. Business-change branches are different: site 45000/50000, representative transfer/inheritance 81000/90000, quality-manager 27000/30000. These are not universal fees for changing a foreign manufacturer name or a model; select the actual application and legal actor. Major clinical/document and certification/notification rows remain distinct.

Conditions for this question

  • Apply only the actual change and legal actor described in this fact; the question does not make every potential filing compulsory.
  • Labels and identifiers

UDI transfer trigger is narrower than every REF change

Fact-level verified

The UDI rule expressly covers MDs and IVDs and excludes export-only products. It assigns codes by model/product-name and packaging level. The current regeneration rule includes domestic-manufactured product-only assignment excluding the business licence, packaging-unit and stated single-use/sterility changes; the old item 2 is deleted. A commercial REF or foreign-company name alone does not establish that domestic-assignment trigger. Match actual approved model and code records before deciding the UDI consequence.

Conditions for this question

  • Apply only the actual change and legal actor described in this fact; the question does not make every potential filing compulsory.
  • Supporting documents

IVD important product and business-change files

Fact-level verified

Use Form 18 for the actual important product change and Form 17 for the business change, with the changed-particular evidence, technical evidence where the actual category requires it, and assignment contract for the specified succession branch. The actual forms include transferor administrative-sanction disclosure/transferee acceptance. A no-technical-review assignment/site branch still has a formal change route; quarterly minor reporting is not a substitute.

Conditions for this question

  • Apply only the actual change and legal actor described in this fact; the question does not make every potential filing compulsory.
  • Change-specific review time

IVD product-change form processing periods

Fact-level verified

Current Form 18 prints approval change periods 60 days with clinical/technical review, 42 with technical review, 10 for other changes, and 5 days each for certification/notification. Form 17 business-licence 15 days/quality-manager 7 days is separate. Applicant 30-day important-change filings, quarterly minor reports, query responses and clock resumption are not these product-review periods. The printed days are not converted to an unsupported elapsed-day unit.

Conditions for this question

  • Apply only the actual change and legal actor described in this fact; the question does not make every potential filing compulsory.
  • Labels and identifiers

IVD-specific label bridge

Fact-level verified

IVD Act 13 applies the listed MD Act 20 label particulars with its express exception and adds the IVD marking, intended use and storage conditions. Therefore align actual manufacturer/importer, product/model and authorisation identity under that bridge; this is direct IVD statutory evidence rather than an assumption from ordinary MD labels. It creates no general old-label sell-through right.

Conditions for this question

  • Apply only the actual change and legal actor described in this fact; the question does not make every potential filing compulsory.
  • Change-specific government fees

Change approval - document review

Source-verified

KRW 551,000–612,000

Per application

Base tariff: electronic application KRW 551,000; visit/post application KRW 612,000. The displayed span distinguishes filing channels, not an uncertainty range. The corresponding IVD Annex 3 item7(b) independently publishes the same two channel amounts. Other IVD transactions are not inferred from this MD tariff row.

Effective from 2026-07-01

Conditions for this question

  • Only an actual change-approval category requiring technical-document review without clinical review.
  • Change-specific government fees

Change approval - documents and clinical review

Source-verified

KRW 1,009,000–1,122,000

Per application

Base tariff: electronic application KRW 1,009,000; visit/post application KRW 1,122,000. The displayed span distinguishes filing channels, not an uncertainty range. The corresponding IVD Annex 3 item7(a) independently publishes the same two channel amounts. Other IVD transactions are not inferred from this MD tariff row.

Effective from 2026-07-01

Conditions for this question

  • Only an actual clinical/technical-review change-approval category.
  • Change-specific government fees

Change certification

Source-verified

KRW 82,000–93,000

Per application

Base tariff: electronic application KRW 82,000; visit/post application KRW 93,000. The displayed span distinguishes filing channels, not an uncertainty range. The corresponding IVD Annex 3 item8 independently publishes the same two channel amounts. Other IVD transactions are not inferred from this MD tariff row.

Effective from 2026-07-01

Conditions for this question

  • Only the actual certification change route to NIDS, not a minor report or approval application.
  • Change-specific government fees

Change notification

Source-verified

KRW 39,000–43,000

Per notification

Base tariff: electronic application KRW 39,000; visit/post application KRW 43,000. The displayed span distinguishes filing channels, not an uncertainty range. The corresponding IVD Annex 3 item9 independently publishes the same two channel amounts. Other IVD transactions are not inferred from this MD tariff row.

Effective from 2026-07-01

Conditions for this question

  • Only the actual notification change route to NIDS, not a minor report or approval application.

What changes when the manufacturer's office address changes?

An office address change for the same legal entity, potentially alongside name and brand changes. This does not cover moving a factory or manufacturing site, and a combined filing cannot be assumed.

  • Filing route and prior approval

IVD important, formal no-review and minor branches

Fact-level verified

IVD Rule 24/28 and regulation 19 separately govern important product/business changes and imports. Approval goes to MFDS; certification/notification to NIDS. Regulation 19(5) addresses assignment evidence. Annex 3 changes not needing technical review remain their formal approval/certification/notification route; they are expressly excluded from the residual minor branch together with Annex 4 major changes. Actual minor changes are reported by the end of the month following the quarter. Do not apply an ordinary-MD Annex 3 exemption or its annual-report timing to IVDs.

Conditions
  • The regulation/flow retains stale internal cross-references; the current Rule 24 wording and actual branch are retained, not silently rewritten.
  • Current source compilation does not make the separately future-staged Article 36 requirements current.

Conditions for this question

  • Apply only the actual change and legal actor described in this fact; the question does not make every potential filing compulsory.
  • Change-specific government fees

Other product-change and business-change fee branches

Fact-level verified

The current MD/IVD fee tables list other product change approval at KRW 121000 electronic/135000 visit-post where that category applies. Business-change branches are different: site 45000/50000, representative transfer/inheritance 81000/90000, quality-manager 27000/30000. These are not universal fees for changing a foreign manufacturer name or a model; select the actual application and legal actor. Major clinical/document and certification/notification rows remain distinct.

Conditions for this question

  • Apply only the actual change and legal actor described in this fact; the question does not make every potential filing compulsory.
  • Labels and identifiers

UDI transfer trigger is narrower than every REF change

Fact-level verified

The UDI rule expressly covers MDs and IVDs and excludes export-only products. It assigns codes by model/product-name and packaging level. The current regeneration rule includes domestic-manufactured product-only assignment excluding the business licence, packaging-unit and stated single-use/sterility changes; the old item 2 is deleted. A commercial REF or foreign-company name alone does not establish that domestic-assignment trigger. Match actual approved model and code records before deciding the UDI consequence.

Conditions for this question

  • Apply only the actual change and legal actor described in this fact; the question does not make every potential filing compulsory.
  • Supporting documents

IVD important product and business-change files

Fact-level verified

Use Form 18 for the actual important product change and Form 17 for the business change, with the changed-particular evidence, technical evidence where the actual category requires it, and assignment contract for the specified succession branch. The actual forms include transferor administrative-sanction disclosure/transferee acceptance. A no-technical-review assignment/site branch still has a formal change route; quarterly minor reporting is not a substitute.

Conditions for this question

  • Apply only the actual change and legal actor described in this fact; the question does not make every potential filing compulsory.
  • Change-specific review time

IVD product-change form processing periods

Fact-level verified

Current Form 18 prints approval change periods 60 days with clinical/technical review, 42 with technical review, 10 for other changes, and 5 days each for certification/notification. Form 17 business-licence 15 days/quality-manager 7 days is separate. Applicant 30-day important-change filings, quarterly minor reports, query responses and clock resumption are not these product-review periods. The printed days are not converted to an unsupported elapsed-day unit.

Conditions for this question

  • Apply only the actual change and legal actor described in this fact; the question does not make every potential filing compulsory.
  • Labels and identifiers

IVD-specific label bridge

Fact-level verified

IVD Act 13 applies the listed MD Act 20 label particulars with its express exception and adds the IVD marking, intended use and storage conditions. Therefore align actual manufacturer/importer, product/model and authorisation identity under that bridge; this is direct IVD statutory evidence rather than an assumption from ordinary MD labels. It creates no general old-label sell-through right.

Conditions for this question

  • Apply only the actual change and legal actor described in this fact; the question does not make every potential filing compulsory.
  • Change-specific government fees

Change approval - document review

Source-verified

KRW 551,000–612,000

Per application

Base tariff: electronic application KRW 551,000; visit/post application KRW 612,000. The displayed span distinguishes filing channels, not an uncertainty range. The corresponding IVD Annex 3 item7(b) independently publishes the same two channel amounts. Other IVD transactions are not inferred from this MD tariff row.

Effective from 2026-07-01

Conditions for this question

  • Only an actual change-approval category requiring technical-document review without clinical review.
  • Change-specific government fees

Change approval - documents and clinical review

Source-verified

KRW 1,009,000–1,122,000

Per application

Base tariff: electronic application KRW 1,009,000; visit/post application KRW 1,122,000. The displayed span distinguishes filing channels, not an uncertainty range. The corresponding IVD Annex 3 item7(a) independently publishes the same two channel amounts. Other IVD transactions are not inferred from this MD tariff row.

Effective from 2026-07-01

Conditions for this question

  • Only an actual clinical/technical-review change-approval category.
  • Change-specific government fees

Change certification

Source-verified

KRW 82,000–93,000

Per application

Base tariff: electronic application KRW 82,000; visit/post application KRW 93,000. The displayed span distinguishes filing channels, not an uncertainty range. The corresponding IVD Annex 3 item8 independently publishes the same two channel amounts. Other IVD transactions are not inferred from this MD tariff row.

Effective from 2026-07-01

Conditions for this question

  • Only the actual certification change route to NIDS, not a minor report or approval application.
  • Change-specific government fees

Change notification

Source-verified

KRW 39,000–43,000

Per notification

Base tariff: electronic application KRW 39,000; visit/post application KRW 43,000. The displayed span distinguishes filing channels, not an uncertainty range. The corresponding IVD Annex 3 item9 independently publishes the same two channel amounts. Other IVD transactions are not inferred from this MD tariff row.

Effective from 2026-07-01

Conditions for this question

  • Only the actual notification change route to NIDS, not a minor report or approval application.

Does a catalogue or reference code change affect registration or UDI?

Check which identifier actually changes. A commercial catalogue, REF or order code is not automatically a device model, registered identifier, GTIN or UDI-DI. Rules for one identifier do not establish the route for another.

  • Filing route and prior approval

IVD important, formal no-review and minor branches

Fact-level verified

IVD Rule 24/28 and regulation 19 separately govern important product/business changes and imports. Approval goes to MFDS; certification/notification to NIDS. Regulation 19(5) addresses assignment evidence. Annex 3 changes not needing technical review remain their formal approval/certification/notification route; they are expressly excluded from the residual minor branch together with Annex 4 major changes. Actual minor changes are reported by the end of the month following the quarter. Do not apply an ordinary-MD Annex 3 exemption or its annual-report timing to IVDs.

Conditions
  • The regulation/flow retains stale internal cross-references; the current Rule 24 wording and actual branch are retained, not silently rewritten.
  • Current source compilation does not make the separately future-staged Article 36 requirements current.

Conditions for this question

  • Apply only the actual change and legal actor described in this fact; the question does not make every potential filing compulsory.
  • Change-specific government fees

Other product-change and business-change fee branches

Fact-level verified

The current MD/IVD fee tables list other product change approval at KRW 121000 electronic/135000 visit-post where that category applies. Business-change branches are different: site 45000/50000, representative transfer/inheritance 81000/90000, quality-manager 27000/30000. These are not universal fees for changing a foreign manufacturer name or a model; select the actual application and legal actor. Major clinical/document and certification/notification rows remain distinct.

Conditions for this question

  • Apply only the actual change and legal actor described in this fact; the question does not make every potential filing compulsory.
  • Labels and identifiers

UDI transfer trigger is narrower than every REF change

Fact-level verified

The UDI rule expressly covers MDs and IVDs and excludes export-only products. It assigns codes by model/product-name and packaging level. The current regeneration rule includes domestic-manufactured product-only assignment excluding the business licence, packaging-unit and stated single-use/sterility changes; the old item 2 is deleted. A commercial REF or foreign-company name alone does not establish that domestic-assignment trigger. Match actual approved model and code records before deciding the UDI consequence.

Conditions for this question

  • Apply only the actual change and legal actor described in this fact; the question does not make every potential filing compulsory.
  • Supporting documents

IVD important product and business-change files

Fact-level verified

Use Form 18 for the actual important product change and Form 17 for the business change, with the changed-particular evidence, technical evidence where the actual category requires it, and assignment contract for the specified succession branch. The actual forms include transferor administrative-sanction disclosure/transferee acceptance. A no-technical-review assignment/site branch still has a formal change route; quarterly minor reporting is not a substitute.

Conditions for this question

  • Apply only the actual change and legal actor described in this fact; the question does not make every potential filing compulsory.
  • Change-specific review time

IVD product-change form processing periods

Fact-level verified

Current Form 18 prints approval change periods 60 days with clinical/technical review, 42 with technical review, 10 for other changes, and 5 days each for certification/notification. Form 17 business-licence 15 days/quality-manager 7 days is separate. Applicant 30-day important-change filings, quarterly minor reports, query responses and clock resumption are not these product-review periods. The printed days are not converted to an unsupported elapsed-day unit.

Conditions for this question

  • Apply only the actual change and legal actor described in this fact; the question does not make every potential filing compulsory.
  • Labels and identifiers

IVD-specific label bridge

Fact-level verified

IVD Act 13 applies the listed MD Act 20 label particulars with its express exception and adds the IVD marking, intended use and storage conditions. Therefore align actual manufacturer/importer, product/model and authorisation identity under that bridge; this is direct IVD statutory evidence rather than an assumption from ordinary MD labels. It creates no general old-label sell-through right.

Conditions for this question

  • Apply only the actual change and legal actor described in this fact; the question does not make every potential filing compulsory.
  • Change-specific government fees

Change approval - document review

Source-verified

KRW 551,000–612,000

Per application

Base tariff: electronic application KRW 551,000; visit/post application KRW 612,000. The displayed span distinguishes filing channels, not an uncertainty range. The corresponding IVD Annex 3 item7(b) independently publishes the same two channel amounts. Other IVD transactions are not inferred from this MD tariff row.

Effective from 2026-07-01

Conditions for this question

  • Only an actual change-approval category requiring technical-document review without clinical review.
  • Change-specific government fees

Change approval - documents and clinical review

Source-verified

KRW 1,009,000–1,122,000

Per application

Base tariff: electronic application KRW 1,009,000; visit/post application KRW 1,122,000. The displayed span distinguishes filing channels, not an uncertainty range. The corresponding IVD Annex 3 item7(a) independently publishes the same two channel amounts. Other IVD transactions are not inferred from this MD tariff row.

Effective from 2026-07-01

Conditions for this question

  • Only an actual clinical/technical-review change-approval category.
  • Change-specific government fees

Change certification

Source-verified

KRW 82,000–93,000

Per application

Base tariff: electronic application KRW 82,000; visit/post application KRW 93,000. The displayed span distinguishes filing channels, not an uncertainty range. The corresponding IVD Annex 3 item8 independently publishes the same two channel amounts. Other IVD transactions are not inferred from this MD tariff row.

Effective from 2026-07-01

Conditions for this question

  • Only the actual certification change route to NIDS, not a minor report or approval application.
  • Change-specific government fees

Change notification

Source-verified

KRW 39,000–43,000

Per notification

Base tariff: electronic application KRW 39,000; visit/post application KRW 43,000. The displayed span distinguishes filing channels, not an uncertainty range. The corresponding IVD Annex 3 item9 independently publishes the same two channel amounts. Other IVD transactions are not inferred from this MD tariff row.

Effective from 2026-07-01

Conditions for this question

  • Only the actual notification change route to NIDS, not a minor report or approval application.

Can several changes be filed together?

Changes to brand, manufacturer name, office address and reference codes may occur together, including with a real transfer to another legal manufacturer, registration holder or owner. Assess transfer with each single change, and transfer with brand plus reference, manufacturer name plus reference, or office address plus reference changes: seven transfer combinations in total. Evidence must establish the exact combination and the order of filings and approvals. These combinations and their sequence are not all verified by the rules below; a rule for one change does not prove that a single application, fee or review period covers the combination.

  • Filing route and prior approval

IVD important, formal no-review and minor branches

Fact-level verified

IVD Rule 24/28 and regulation 19 separately govern important product/business changes and imports. Approval goes to MFDS; certification/notification to NIDS. Regulation 19(5) addresses assignment evidence. Annex 3 changes not needing technical review remain their formal approval/certification/notification route; they are expressly excluded from the residual minor branch together with Annex 4 major changes. Actual minor changes are reported by the end of the month following the quarter. Do not apply an ordinary-MD Annex 3 exemption or its annual-report timing to IVDs.

Conditions
  • The regulation/flow retains stale internal cross-references; the current Rule 24 wording and actual branch are retained, not silently rewritten.
  • Current source compilation does not make the separately future-staged Article 36 requirements current.

Conditions for this question

  • Apply only the actual change and legal actor described in this fact; the question does not make every potential filing compulsory.
  • Change-specific government fees

Other product-change and business-change fee branches

Fact-level verified

The current MD/IVD fee tables list other product change approval at KRW 121000 electronic/135000 visit-post where that category applies. Business-change branches are different: site 45000/50000, representative transfer/inheritance 81000/90000, quality-manager 27000/30000. These are not universal fees for changing a foreign manufacturer name or a model; select the actual application and legal actor. Major clinical/document and certification/notification rows remain distinct.

Conditions for this question

  • Apply only the actual change and legal actor described in this fact; the question does not make every potential filing compulsory.
  • Labels and identifiers

UDI transfer trigger is narrower than every REF change

Fact-level verified

The UDI rule expressly covers MDs and IVDs and excludes export-only products. It assigns codes by model/product-name and packaging level. The current regeneration rule includes domestic-manufactured product-only assignment excluding the business licence, packaging-unit and stated single-use/sterility changes; the old item 2 is deleted. A commercial REF or foreign-company name alone does not establish that domestic-assignment trigger. Match actual approved model and code records before deciding the UDI consequence.

Conditions for this question

  • Apply only the actual change and legal actor described in this fact; the question does not make every potential filing compulsory.
  • Supporting documents

IVD important product and business-change files

Fact-level verified

Use Form 18 for the actual important product change and Form 17 for the business change, with the changed-particular evidence, technical evidence where the actual category requires it, and assignment contract for the specified succession branch. The actual forms include transferor administrative-sanction disclosure/transferee acceptance. A no-technical-review assignment/site branch still has a formal change route; quarterly minor reporting is not a substitute.

Conditions for this question

  • Apply only the actual change and legal actor described in this fact; the question does not make every potential filing compulsory.
  • Change-specific review time

IVD product-change form processing periods

Fact-level verified

Current Form 18 prints approval change periods 60 days with clinical/technical review, 42 with technical review, 10 for other changes, and 5 days each for certification/notification. Form 17 business-licence 15 days/quality-manager 7 days is separate. Applicant 30-day important-change filings, quarterly minor reports, query responses and clock resumption are not these product-review periods. The printed days are not converted to an unsupported elapsed-day unit.

Conditions for this question

  • Apply only the actual change and legal actor described in this fact; the question does not make every potential filing compulsory.
  • Labels and identifiers

IVD-specific label bridge

Fact-level verified

IVD Act 13 applies the listed MD Act 20 label particulars with its express exception and adds the IVD marking, intended use and storage conditions. Therefore align actual manufacturer/importer, product/model and authorisation identity under that bridge; this is direct IVD statutory evidence rather than an assumption from ordinary MD labels. It creates no general old-label sell-through right.

Conditions for this question

  • Apply only the actual change and legal actor described in this fact; the question does not make every potential filing compulsory.
  • Change-specific government fees

Change approval - document review

Source-verified

KRW 551,000–612,000

Per application

Base tariff: electronic application KRW 551,000; visit/post application KRW 612,000. The displayed span distinguishes filing channels, not an uncertainty range. The corresponding IVD Annex 3 item7(b) independently publishes the same two channel amounts. Other IVD transactions are not inferred from this MD tariff row.

Effective from 2026-07-01

Conditions for this question

  • Only an actual change-approval category requiring technical-document review without clinical review.
  • Change-specific government fees

Change approval - documents and clinical review

Source-verified

KRW 1,009,000–1,122,000

Per application

Base tariff: electronic application KRW 1,009,000; visit/post application KRW 1,122,000. The displayed span distinguishes filing channels, not an uncertainty range. The corresponding IVD Annex 3 item7(a) independently publishes the same two channel amounts. Other IVD transactions are not inferred from this MD tariff row.

Effective from 2026-07-01

Conditions for this question

  • Only an actual clinical/technical-review change-approval category.
  • Change-specific government fees

Change certification

Source-verified

KRW 82,000–93,000

Per application

Base tariff: electronic application KRW 82,000; visit/post application KRW 93,000. The displayed span distinguishes filing channels, not an uncertainty range. The corresponding IVD Annex 3 item8 independently publishes the same two channel amounts. Other IVD transactions are not inferred from this MD tariff row.

Effective from 2026-07-01

Conditions for this question

  • Only the actual certification change route to NIDS, not a minor report or approval application.
  • Change-specific government fees

Change notification

Source-verified

KRW 39,000–43,000

Per notification

Base tariff: electronic application KRW 39,000; visit/post application KRW 43,000. The displayed span distinguishes filing channels, not an uncertainty range. The corresponding IVD Annex 3 item9 independently publishes the same two channel amounts. Other IVD transactions are not inferred from this MD tariff row.

Effective from 2026-07-01

Conditions for this question

  • Only the actual notification change route to NIDS, not a minor report or approval application.
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