# Korea public limit, 2–300 GHz

> 61 V/m and 10 W/m² — the value that governs Korean 2.1 GHz, 3.5 GHz and 28 GHz sites and Wi-Fi.

- Canonical URL: https://emfbase.com/limits/korea-public-limit-2-300-ghz
- Collection: Exposure limits
- Record id: `limits:korea-public-2-300ghz`
- Status: verified
- Last verified: 2026-08-12
- JSON: https://emfbase.com/api/limits/korea-public-limit-2-300-ghz

## Key values

- **Limit value:** 61 V/m — Regulatory value — legally enforceable — RRA reference-level table for the general public: E = 61 V/m, H = 0.16 A/m, B = 0.20 µT, S = 10 W/m². [korea-emf-protection-standard]
- **Quantity:** electric field strength
- **Frequency band:** 2–300 GHz
- **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

- [ICNIRP 2020 general public reference level, 2–300 GHz](https://emfbase.com/limits/icnirp-public-power-density-above-2-ghz): 10 W/m² incident power density averaged over 30 minutes and over the whole body — the reference level that 5G mid-band and Wi-Fi compliance is judged against outside the U.S.
- [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

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.