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South Korean lawmakers rally behind platform bills after Supreme Court's Naver ruling

By Jenny Lee and Wooyoung Lee ( November 18, 2025, 10:20 GMT | Insight) -- South Korea's lawmakers and competition regulator joined forces on Tuesday to deliver a sharp rebuke of a Supreme Court decision they say has gutted enforcement against algorithmic manipulation by dominant platforms, mounting an urgent push for legislation to restore regulatory teeth. At a parliamentary seminar convened just weeks after the top court overturned antitrust sanctions against Naver, lawmakers from the ruling party argued that South Korea's competition law framework has proven inadequate to address platform self-preferencing, and new legislation can no longer wait.South Korea's lawmakers and competition regulator joined forces on Tuesday to deliver a sharp rebuke of a Supreme Court decision they say has gutted enforcement against algorithmic manipulation by dominant platforms, mounting an urgent push for legislation to restore regulatory teeth....

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