Sangyun Lee
Sangyun Lee is a postdoctoral researcher at Kyoto University, where he is a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) International Research Fellow. He specializes in competition law and policy, with a keen focus on the intersection of law and public administration.
He was previously a lecturer at Korea University Graduate School, a research fellow at the Korea Fair Trade Mediation Agency, a legal researcher at Korea's Data Protection Authority (PIPC), and a research assistant at Korea's Parliamentary Research Service (NARS).
He received his bachelor's from Sungkyunkwan University; LL.M. degrees from Eötvös Loránd University, the University of Amsterdam, and Korea University; and his PhD in competition law from Korea University.
Sangyun Lee
Sep 25, 2024
The Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC), the nation’s competition authority, announced Sept. 9 that it had abandoned plans for comprehensive platform regulation modeled after the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) or Section 19a of Germany’s Competition Act. The proposed Korean regulation would have involved an ex-ante designation process, alongside stringent prohibitions. The KFTC noted ... Lessons from Korea’s Roller-Coaster Ride Toward Platform (Non)Regulation
