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Extract citations from a law article (조문 인용 조회).

This tool extracts all legal citations referenced by a specific law article. It parses the official hyperlinked citations from law.go.kr HTML pages, providing 100% accurate citation data with zero API cost.

The tool identifies:

• External citations (references to other laws)

• Internal citations (references within the same law)

• Article, paragraph, and item level references

Args: mst: Law MST code (법령일련번호) - get this from eflaw_search or law_search results law_name: Law name in Korean (e.g., "자본시장과 금융투자업에 관한 법률") article: Article number (조번호, e.g., 3 for 제3조) article_branch: Article branch number (조가지번호, e.g., 2 for 제37조의2, default 0) oc: Optional OC override (defaults to env var)

Returns: Citation extraction result with: - success: Whether extraction succeeded - law_id: MST code - law_name: Law name - article: Article display (e.g., "제3조" or "제37조의2") - citation_count: Total number of citations found - citations: List of citation objects with target law, article, paragraph, item - internal_count: Number of same-law citations - external_count: Number of other-law citations

Examples: Get citations from 자본시장법 제3조: >>> article_citation( ... mst="268611", ... law_name="자본시장과 금융투자업에 관한 법률", ... article=3 ... )

Get citations from 건축법 제37조의2:
>>> article_citation(
...     mst="270986",
...     law_name="건축법",
...     article=37,
...     article_branch=2
... )

Workflow: 1. First use eflaw_search(query="법명") to find the law and get MST 2. Then use article_citation(mst=..., law_name=..., article=...) to get citations 3. Optionally use eflaw_service to get the full article text