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government and the ruling party also came up with measures belatedly.

In order to prevent sudden service paralysis like this one, we have decided to promote a bill in which companies must operate two or more systems with the same function.

Also, when a company like Kakao is trying to expand its business, we decided to look more closely in the future.



This content was compiled by reporter Jung Jun-ho.



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In 2015, when the name was changed from 'Daum Kakao' to 'Kakao', the number of Kakao affiliates was 49.



However, the number of affiliates increased to 187 in 7 years due to aggressive mergers and acquisitions ranging from carpool service, real estate rental, parking lot operation, and webtoon to logistics.



Kakao easily took over the market by putting the acquired service on KakaoTalk, the national messenger.



Controversy over the infringement of alleyway commercial rights followed this expansion of octopus, and when this digital blackout occurred, the Fair Trade Commission decided to put the brakes on it.



In the future, taking into account the specificity of platform operators, the company will strictly look at the criteria for mergers and acquisitions.



[Shin Yong-hee / Fair Trade Commission Business Combination Manager: The platform has different aspects from the traditional service sector, such as the characteristics that span multiple markets and the mixture of paid and free services.

It is necessary to supplement the appropriate market definition method and competition restriction evaluation criteria.]



We plan to prepare screening criteria by next year by studying whether the platform makes it difficult for other competitors to enter or narrows the user's choice.



However, when acquiring a company with assets or sales of less than 30 billion won, the reporting criteria for not undergoing combination review is separate from this revision.



The party also decided to make a bill that would make data center redundancy mandatory for platform operators.



There are also criticisms that it is a countermeasure against the back book, although it is intended to force them not to neglect data protection by focusing only on business expansion.



(Video editing: Lee Seung-yeol, CG: Seo Dong-min)



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