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South Korea's PIPC seeks to keep data issues from becoming trade flashpoints

By Wooyoung Lee ( June 18, 2025, 08:10 GMT | Insight) -- South Korea’s privacy regulator is ramping up efforts to ensure that data issues do not escalate into trade or political disputes, its vice chairman said. The PIPC has been in discussions with the American Chamber of Commerce in Korea to address concerns raised by the US Trade Representative, who recently flagged South Korea’s data restrictions as non-tariff barriers. The agency also spoke with China's privacy regulator recently amid concerns that privacy issues over DeepSeek could spill into the political arena. South Korea’s privacy regulator is ramping up efforts to ensure that data issues do not escalate into trade or political disputes, its vice chairman said....

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