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Comment: Platform regulation in South Korea becomes mired in an enforcement-agency turf war

By Wooyoung Lee and Jenny Lee
  • 15 Feb 2021 23:39
  • 15 Feb 2021 23:39
As South Korea ploughs ahead with its drive to regulate online platforms, a bureaucratic tug-of-war is developing in its wake. The country’s competition and communications regulators appear to be on a collision course over which agency should be tapped to oversee platform businesses.

Both the Korea Fair Trade Commission, or KFTC

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Wooyoung Lee

Correspondent, Seoul


Wooyoung Lee is a correspondent based in MLex’s Seoul office, South Korea, covering antitrust, privacy and data security, mergers and acquisitions and financial services. Wooyoung has more than a decade of experience in journalism, public policy and research. She has worked and written for news outlets including The Korea Herald, Al Jazeera International, Bloomberg BNA, Monocle, among others.

Jenny Lee

Correspondent


Jenny joined MLex’s Seoul bureau in 2021 as a correspondent focusing on competition law and data privacy and security. Jenny received a Master’s degree from Northwestern University’s renowned Medill School of Journalism and worked for a number of news organizations in the US, including the Associated Press Television News, McClatchy and Voice of America, where she worked for almost three years in Washington DC. She returned to her native South Korea in 2019 as a reporter for Wired Korea.

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