🇰🇷 Korea cosmetic safety assessment (similar to EU CPSR): phase 1 begins
1 Jan 2028 · South Korea · Confidence: Secondary (authoritative)
What happens
Phase 1 covers functional cosmetics of companies with annual production or import results of KRW 1 billion or more, as well as newly registered businesses. Phase 2 follows in 2029 (small and medium-sized enterprises, starting with children's cosmetics), with full application in 2031. Note that KRW 1 billion is a threshold based on actual results rather than company size; most brands with real distribution will cross it immediately.
What to do
The raw data needed for safety assessments can generally only come from manufacturers, so Korean brand owners are expected to start requesting technical files equivalent to an EU cosmetic product safety report (CPSR), i.e. a product information file (PIF), from manufacturers before 2028. Factories that already hold EU PIFs can use them directly; those with incomplete documentation have about 18 months to prepare.
Source
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