KATS (Korea)
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Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) is the government
standards organization A standards organization, standards body, standards developing organization (SDO), or standards setting organization (SSO) is an organization whose primary function is developing, coordinating, promulgating, revising, amending, reissuing, interpr ...
for
South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and t ...
. It is part of the
Ministry of Knowledge Economy The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE; ) is a ministry under the Government of South Korea. It is concerned with regulating economic policy, especially with regard to the industrial and energy sectors. The ministry also works to enc ...
. It is authorized to regulate and manage the legal measures of South Korea by the current Measures Act. KATS is a member of the
International Organization for Standardization The International Organization for Standardization (ISO ; ; ) is an independent, non-governmental, international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries. M ...
(ISO), as well as the
International Electrotechnical Commission The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC; ) is an international standards organization that prepares and publishes international standards for all electrical, electronics, electronic and related technologies. IEC standards cover a va ...
(IEC).


See also

* Korea Association of Standards & Testing Organizations


References


External links

* ISO member bodies {{SouthKorea-gov-stub