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South Korea weighs privacy-safe disclosure rules for C2C platform disputes

By Jenny Lee ( July 11, 2025, 07:45 GMT | Insight) -- South Korea’s competition regulator is planning to propose revisions to the e-commerce law to introduce a more limited and controlled mechanism for disclosing seller information when consumer harm occurs. Instead of the current provision mandating disclosure of this information directly to buyers, the Korea Fair Trade Commission is planning to require second-hand marketplace apps and other consumer-to-consumer, or C2C, platforms to only share seller information with authorized third parties, such as courts or dispute mediation bodies, upon formal request.South Korea’s competition regulator is planning to propose revisions to the e-commerce law to require second-hand marketplace apps and other consumer-to-consumer, or C2C, platforms to share seller information with authorized third parties, such as courts or dispute mediation bodies, when consumer harm occurs....

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