By Jenny Lee ( August 5, 2026, 02:08 GMT | Insight) -- South Korea's president Lee Jae Myung pressed the country’s antitrust regulator on the details of a plan to end its decades-old monopoly on referring cartel and unfair-trade cases to prosecutors, during a policy briefing on Tuesday. The exchange, part of the second-half 2026 work-plan presentation by Ju Biung-ghi, chair of the Korea Fair Trade Commission, centered on a bill that would let a threshold number of citizens, central-government agencies and metropolitan and provincial governments file complaints directly with investigators, bypassing the regulator’s so-called exclusive referral system.South Korea's president Lee Jae Myung pressed the country’s antitrust regulator on the details of a plan to end its decades-old monopoly on referring cartel and unfair-trade cases to prosecutors, during a policy briefing on Tuesday....
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