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South Korea's Coupang target of fresh antitrust probe for allegedly manipulating search algorithms

By Jenny Lee
  • 05 Jul 2021 20:44
  • 05 Jul 2021 20:44
South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang is the target of a fresh probe by the country's antitrust regulator for allegedly directing users to its own products by manipulating search algorithms, MLex has learned.
The Korea Fair Trade Commission, or KFTC, recently launched a dawn raid on the company's headquarters to investigate whether

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Jenny Lee

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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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