Korean Law in English
Laws › Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act › CHAPTER X PROCEDURES FOR INVESTIGATIONS

Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act — Article 87 (Written fact-finding surveys)

독점규제 및 공정거래에 관한 법률 제87조

This English translation is based on the Korean text effective 2026-05-12. The Korean law has since been amended (current version effective 2026-10-02) — check the Korean original.

(1) The Fair Trade Commission may conduct a written fact-finding survey on a particular business area and publish the results thereof in order to establish fair trade order in such business area.

(2) Where the Fair Trade Commission intends to conduct a written fact-finding survey pursuant to paragraph (1), it shall establish a plan on the scopes of persons to be surveyed, survey period, survey details, survey methods, survey procedures, extent of publicizing the results of the survey, etc.; and may require the persons to be surveyed to submit materials necessary for the survey, such as actual condition of transactions.

(3) Where the Fair Trade Commission requests the submission of materials pursuant to paragraph (2), it shall give persons to be surveyed written notice specifying the extent and details of materials to be submitted, reasons for requests, deadlines for submission, etc.

‹ Article 86All articlesArticle 88 ›

Korean original (law.go.kr) · Get articles as JSON via API

For AI agents and developers — get this article as JSON, with the English and current Korean effective dates and an outdated-translation flag, from the korea-law API or as an MCP tool: https://mcp.apify.com?tools=kr-data/korea-law