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Korean Bar Association fined for blocking lawyers from offering services through tech platform

By Wooyoung Lee ( February 23, 2023, 08:42 GMT | Insight) -- South Korea’s two largest associations of lawyers have been hit with fines and corrective orders by the country’s competition regulator for restricting their member lawyers from offering services through a legal tech platform and penalizing those who had done so. The Korea Fair Trade Commission concluded that the behavior violated the competition law under which trade associations should not “unreasonably” restrict members' business activities.South Korea’s two largest associations of lawyers have been hit with fines and corrective orders by the country’s competition regulator for restricting their member lawyers from offering services through a legal tech platform and penalizing those who had done so....

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