# Korea public limit, 10–400 MHz

> 28 V/m and 2 W/m² for the general public across VHF/UHF broadcasting and the 400 MHz land-mobile band.

- Canonical URL: https://emfbase.com/limits/korea-public-limit-10-400-mhz
- Collection: Exposure limits
- Record id: `limits:korea-public-10-400mhz`
- Status: verified
- Last verified: 2026-08-12
- JSON: https://emfbase.com/api/limits/korea-public-limit-10-400-mhz

## Key values

- **Limit value:** 28 V/m — Regulatory value — legally enforceable — RRA reference-level table for the general public: E = 28 V/m, H = 0.073 A/m, B = 0.092 µT, S = 2 W/m² — the ICNIRP 1998 public values for this band. [korea-emf-protection-standard]
- **Quantity:** electric field strength
- **Frequency band:** 10–400 MHz
- **Population:** general public
- **Set by:** Korea EMF human protection standard (전자파 인체보호기준) (MSIT Notice No. 2019-4 under Radio Waves Act art. 47-2)
- **Kind:** Regulatory — legally enforceable
- **Averaging time:** 6 minutes — A measurement must use the same averaging before it can be compared with this value.

## Related records

- [Korea EMF human protection standard (전자파 인체보호기준)](https://emfbase.com/standards/korea-emf-human-protection-standard): Korea's binding exposure standard under Radio Waves Act art. 47-2, tracking the ICNIRP 1998 reference levels: 61 V/m above 2 GHz and 83.3 µT at power frequency for the general public.

## Sources

- `korea-emf-protection-standard` 국립전파연구원 (National Radio Research Agency, Ministry of Science and ICT, Republic of Korea). *전자파 인체보호기준 — 전자파강도 기준표 (Human protection standard for electromagnetic waves: field-strength tables)*. https://www.rra.go.kr/emf/wrongfact/knowing/index08.do — regulation, link checked 2026-08-12
- `korea-radio-waves-act` Korea Legislation Research Institute (statutes of the Republic of Korea). *Radio Waves Act, art. 47-2 — standards for the protection of the human body from electromagnetic waves*. https://elaw.klri.re.kr/eng_service/lawView.do?hseq=25937&lang=ENG — regulation, link checked 2026-08-12

Data licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Dataset version 2026.08.1. Retrieved from EMFBase, https://emfbase.com.

This record is reference data, not medical or legal advice. Regulatory limits, scientific guidelines and precautionary values are labelled separately and answer different questions.