On Sept. 13, 2013, the head of the South Korean antitrust regulator (the Korea Fair Trade Commission) announced a strengthening of the penalties for unfair business activities.

According to the KFTC's press release, the proposed merger does not raise competitive concerns in the seed, pesticide...

The Korea Fair Trade Commission reported its future plans to closely monitor any cartels or unfair trade practices.

In March 2016, the KMA, an association of more than 100,000 Korean physicians, won a decisive victory over the KFTC when the Seoul High Court entirely overruled the KFTC's sanctions...

Korea's key ICT-related agencies, the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, and the Korea Communications Commission, have adopted as a top priority plans to foster new industries in response to the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

In June 2016, the Korean Fair Trade Commission ("KFTC") announced its proposed amendment to the Enforcement Decree of the Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act...

The KFTC established the KFTC Rules on Investigative Procedures and amended the KFTC Rules on Internal Commission Meeting Process and Enforcement Procedures. Those Rules came into force on February 4, 2016.

In Korea, anti-dumping investigations are conducted by the Korea Trade Commission (KTC), which was founded in July 1987. The KTC is currently composed of one chairperson and eight commissioners, including one designated as a standing commissioner.