Governing law
An NDA under South Korean law.
The clause Send NDA writes when you send from South Korea, in English and in Korean, and what the law there changes in the rest of the agreement.
The clause
Governing Law and Jurisdiction, as it prints.
Every NDA sent under this law carries this clause. Where the recipient signs as a private individual, it adds a sentence that keeps the protections their own law gives them. Your country decides the governing law; the recipient's own country can only narrow the agreement.
12. Governing Law and Jurisdiction.
This Agreement is governed by the laws of South Korea, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with this Agreement are governed by the same laws, to the extent the Parties may choose the law that applies to them. The courts of South Korea have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Agreement. The Parties' choice of courts applies only so far as the law allows them to make it; where it does not, the ordinary rules of jurisdiction apply. Either Party may nevertheless seek injunctive or other interim relief in any court of competent jurisdiction.
The Korean text, issued beside the English under the one signature. The English is the text both sides are bound by.
제12조 준거법 및 관할
본 계약은 대한민국의 법에 따라 규율되며, 그 국제사법 규칙은 적용하지 아니한다. 본 계약으로부터 또는 본 계약과 관련하여 발생하는 계약 외의 의무는, 양 당사자가 이에 적용될 법을 선택할 수 있는 범위에서, 같은 법에 따라 규율된다. 대한민국의 법원이 본 계약으로부터 또는 본 계약과 관련하여 발생하는 모든 분쟁에 대하여 전속적 관할권을 가진다. 양 당사자의 법원 선택은 법률이 이를 허용하는 범위에서만 효력이 있고, 허용되지 아니하는 경우에는 일반적인 관할 규칙이 적용된다. 그럼에도 불구하고 각 당사자는 관할권 있는 어떠한 법원에도 금지명령이나 그 밖의 임시적 구제를 신청할 수 있다.
What the law changes
What South Korean law does to the rest of the agreement.
This agreement carries no penalty for a breach. We offer one only where we have checked that the law gives it effect and in the shape that law asks for, so loss is proved and claimed in the ordinary way. Where a court holds a clause unenforceable, the agreement asks it to delete from that clause and never to rewrite it, which is what saves the rest of the agreement.
The law here asks for the agreement in Korean, so it is issued in Korean beside the English, inside the same document and under the one signature. Where they differ, the English is the text both sides are bound by.
Here a clause of a form one side drew up binds the other only where they approved it apart from the rest, so the signing page lists the clauses that weigh on a signer and has them tick a box approving those before they sign.