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Korea: Google, Apple face tighter monitoring

By  |  February 1, 2015

Korean watchdog said in its 2015 plan announced Sunday that it would focus monitoring global monopolistic companies abusing their dominance in the market. It cited as examples excluding competitors by abusing market dominance based on patents or demanding excessively high royalty from users.

“As it requires extreme professionalism to prove unfair practices, we will set up a special task force dedicated to the ICT sector comprising experts and veteran investigators,” the FTC said.

The regulator didn’t specify company names, but mobile operating system (OS) or platform businesses, such as Apple and Google, could be targets.

 

Full Content: The Korean Times

 

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