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Hyundai Heavy Industries, the No. 1 shipbuilding industry, caught the technology of a supplier that supplied parts and handed it over to another company, and was caught by the Korea Fair Trade Commission. Due to the fines, he was asked to pay the highest amount of 970 million won, and criticism continues whether he will change his attitude toward fines.

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This is a medium-sized marine engine,'strong engine,' developed by Hyundai Heavy Industries in 2000.

It was the foundation for developing the world's largest power engine last year, despite the evaluation that a foreign company has localized its dominant technology.

This engine part, the piston, was developed together with partner Samyoung Machinery.

Since then, Hyundai Heavy Industries has handed over Samyoung's technical data to a third party to diversify its supply.

In the handed over data, the same was found in the Samyoung data.

[Moon Jong-Sook / Head of Technology Use Monitoring Team, Fair Trade Commission: (Hyundai Heavy Industries) has asked whether it is possible to manufacture pistons from third-party companies around late 2014 to reduce costs, and to compensate for the shortcomings related to piston manufacturing (Samyoung Machinery Data) B company.] When

a third party succeeded in developing the piston, Hyundai Heavy Industries cut the delivery price of Samyoung by 11% over three months, and then stopped trading.

[Representative of Korea Current Samyoung Machinery (2018 National Assembly Debate): (Hyundai Heavy Industries' related sales) was 20.3 billion in 2014, 89% decreased to 2.2 billion in 17 years, three years later. Piston orders decreased by 90.5%.]

The FTC judged that it requested technical data without any justifiable reason, such as pressured by sending an e-mail stating that the approval for mass production could be canceled if the data were not passed.

The FTC imposed a fine of 970 million won, the largest amount of sanctions for technology-useful acts along with corrective orders.

Hyundai Heavy Industries said it was requesting data to establish countermeasures against defects.

(Video coverage: Kim Min-cheol, video editing: Jang Hyun-gi)