Foreign-invested companies in an FTZ are excluded from the following regulations, with which companies located in other areas have to comply (Art. 3 of the Act on Free Trade Zones):

• A certain level of elderly people have to be employed (Art. 12 of the Employment Promotion for the Aged Act);
• If people with distinguished services to the state or their families apply for employment, additional points and privilege must be given to them (Art. 31 of the Act on the Honorable Treatment and Support of Persons of Distinguished Services to the State);
• If a person has contributed or sacrificed in relation to the 5.18 democratization movement and family of the person apply for employment, additional points and privilege must be given (Art. 22 of the Act on the Honorable Treatment of Persons of Distinguished Services to the Gwangju Democratization Movement);
• Employment must be guaranteed to those who have sacrificed for the state with a special duty and for their families (Art. 21 of the Act on the Support of Persons Executing a Special Duty);
• A certain level of disabled people must be employed for companies with a certain number of employees (Art. 24 of the Employment Promotion and Vocational Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons Act);
• In order to preserve the stability of business for small-medium enterprises, the participation of conglomerates in specific sectors shall be restricted and instead assigned to small-medium companies (Art. 4 and 12 of the Act on the Protection of the Business Sphere of Small and Medium Enterprises and Promotion of Their Cooperation).