Haitong EMC Inc. Tel : 82-339-376-4117 Fax : 82-339-376-4118 Email : [email protected] Ryan Kim / President of Haitong EMC Inc.
---------- $)C > :83= ;g6w: [email protected] > 9^4B ;g6w: [email protected] > B|A6: [email protected] > A&8q: Re: Korea EMC > 3/B%: 19973b 8?y 4@O ?y?d@O ?@HD 5:04 > > > Dear Douglas, I will comment on each your question. Please refer to the following message. ------------- Mr. Chris original message ------------- > > > Scott, > > Lab Accreditation > > I don't know if you have seen my note on the accreditation of facilities > outside Korea, but the RRL in Korea are not accrediting labs outside Korea > until MOUs/MRAs are in place. > > Manuals > > The test house we are using have quoted us a cost of US$10/page translated. > > Distributors > This is what the RRL told me during my visit (this information was not what > Estech, the EMI consultants / test house we are using in Korea, told me) : > > 1. Only one certification number is required to cover your distributors. > > 2. (This is the nasty one). The applicant and EACH distributor has to > perform the annual retest. In your case this means 6 retest per year per > product. The reason the RRL gave for this requirement is to cover one model > of a product being manufactured in more than one location (I guess it > covers PC distributors who make up systems from kits of parts to differing > levels of quality). I have asked our EMI consultants to discuss the > possibility of registering the manufacturing facilities as an alternative. > I will keep you posted. > > Kind regards, > > Chris Allen > Senior Approvals Engineer > 3Com Europe Ltd. > > > ----- Previous Message ---------------------------------------------------- > > > > To: haitong @ soback.kornet.nm.kr > cc: emc-pstc @ ieee.org > From: sdouglas @ ecrm.com @ UGATE > Date: Friday August 1, 1997 15:28 > Subject: Korea EMC > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------- > > > > Ryan, > I read your response to the "Korea in a Nut Shell" message. Thank you for > that. > I have some questions and comments. > 1. How does a US lab apply for and get accreditation from the Korean > government for EMI testing? I would like my local test house to apply. Answer : You can see the case that IBM already got 4 labs in America. I haven't seen any written law that outside of Korea labs can not be accreditted. Their must be the way. > 2. Your price of U$670 for test, report and certification application is > half the cost of a test and report at my local test house. I do not have to > apply to the FCC for Class A equipment. A one day (6-8 hours) test is done > and it takes 10 days to get the report. Your cost and turn-around time are > half what I get here. > 3. Touche on the language issue. I am paying for 6 (now 7 with Korea) > translations all the time. I don't like it but it is a cost of doing > business. > 4. If my product continues to be imported into Korea after one year, you > say I need to have a test report to check the product's EMI condition as > compared to the original and that I have to apply to the Korean lab to get > the test report. > Question - does the Korean lab just re-print the original report or do I > have to send another sample of the product back for another test? How is > the product checked against the original tested product? Answer : You must provide same sample and Korea lab retests. First, we check EMI condition and if it passes, test is done and issue the report. RRL has the picture of sample 1 year ago and sometimes they compare your sample to the picture to find out any hard ware change. > >From an e-mail on 8 April 1997 from you to Bharat Shah regarding labeling > of the product - - If I have five distributors importing the same products, > you said that each of them has to get certification by applying for "same > product verification". Answer : This case is only with one condition that five distributor import your products seperately with its name on the invoice. It means you have five importers. Many cases, only one dealer is the importer, and dealer distributor products to the distributor like what H.P. does. In that case, you don't need any same type verification or EMI certi for each distributor. > Does that mean that each distributor must apply for this? Who do they apply > to? Is it possible for me to get the registration, label the products here > at my factory and ship them to the five distributors with all getting the > same label? Answer : If your distributor is the importer (let say 5 importers) all of your distributor must apply for the Same Type Verification and get Certification with its name on it to get customs clearance. If your distributor doesn't have Certi with its name on it, impossible to get customs clearance. For the Same Type Verification, apply to the RRL and application fee is U$70 and it takes 5 days to get the certi. If you have just one importer (your dealer may be), you can label the products at your factory and ship them to your importer and your importer must deliver to the distributor. Korea EMI Certi is issued to only Korean company which want to import product. If any distributor get the products at custom and do not have the EMI certi with its name on, impossible to get custom clearance. Korea government consider the products are other company's if one importer do not have the EMI certi. > Most of my products will be shipped with my name on the certification > label. Answer : There is no manufactured name on the label. On certi, applicant is the one who in responsible for the Certi as well as survellience. That label has all of the approvals needed on it, that is CSA, > CSA/NRTL, TUV, CE Marking, FCC statements, etc. Can I just add the Korean > label requirements to my existing certification label? I do not put dealer > or distributor names on my certification label or anywhere else on my > products in this case. Answer : You can pur Korea EMI label along with the other marks. Anyhow, your name or your dealer, distributor name is not on the label. > I do, however, sometimes do some private labeling. A customer of mine will > have us place their name on the front of the product, i.e. the marketing > name of the product. My certification label with my name and all approvals > is placed on the back of the product. How does this affect the questions in > the paragraph above? Answer : This is the OEM case. Right! If model name is changed with one product which you already got the certi, your customer must re-apply for the test and get the new certi. If model name is same, only Persimissive Change is needed to let you your OEM customer hold the Certi with its name on it. It takes 5 days and application fee is the U$70. The important thing in Korea EMI regulation is the model name. If model name is same, you can do same type verification as well as permissive change. Otherwise, every new model name system is considered as a new system. To conclude, in case of Same model name, Type Verification or Persimissive Change, the EMI label number is same. Thus you can put your label on the back even though it has marketing name. > In a third variation, some of my customers contract us to make products for > them and their name is placed on the certification label as well as on the > marketing labels. In this case, I get CSA, TUV, etc. certifications in > their name with me as the manufacturing location for that customer. How > does this affect the questions in the paragraph above? Answer : As I mentioned above, Korea EMI label doesn't bear the any company name. Care for only model name. New model name, new product. Same model name, try to let your customer to get Same Type Verification or Persimissive Change. In case of Same Type Verification or Persimissive, the EMI label number is same. So, you can put your label on the back of system without any change of original label. > Finally, someone at our embassy in Korea provided me with a chart that > lists the products that need to have EMI testing. My products are not on > that chart. It was in Korean and he provided it to me with his translation > of the product types. It is not official and I cannot refer to it or > attribute it to him. The chart is from a book, page 385 and the title is > "Items subject to EMI testing" that he obtained from RRL. The hard > question, if my product is not on that chart and I classify my product as > Information Technology Equipment, then do I still need to get EMI > registration? > The chart listed the following equipment as subject to EMI testing: > Wired Telecom Terminals > Private Branch Exchanges > Modems > Credit Card Reference Machines > Teletex > Keyphones > Telex > Facsimilie Machines > Videotext > Videophones > Word Processors > Copying Machines > General Purpose Computers > Minicomputers > Business Computers > Industrial Computers > Personal Computers > Plotters (x,y plotters and drafting machines) > Printers > Data Service Units (DSU) > Multiplexers (MUX) > Monitors > Keyboards > Motherboards for PC's > Power supply for PC's > Cards for monitors (from among input/output interfaces for PC's) > End of list from chart. Answer : The above is the old version of EMI regulation items. From the 1st of July, the item in not listed one by one. ITE is categorized like the following: " ITE equipment is the system which has more than 1 terminal port and has the function of input, output, store, inspect, transmmit or control of data and telecom message. It also has the under 600 Volt input voltage. " Thus, no more item list is existed. That is why HDD, FDD, CD-ROM drive, LAN card, Hub, .... those equipment must get EMI registration. > Many thanks for all of your efforts to keep us going in the right > direction. It is frustrating to sit here so far away while trying to cope > with new rules in a land with a language we cannot read, write or speak. My > compliments to you for making the effort to learn our language. I hope the above answers your question. If you have any other question, just contact me. Regards, Ryan Kim > ________________________ > Regards, > Scott Douglas > Principal Compliance Engineer > ECRM Incorporated > Telephone: 1-508-851-0207 > Facsimilie: 1-508-851-7016 > e-mail: [email protected] > ________________________ > > > >
