- 5 employees from Kenya, Pakistan, Mongolia and Vietnam's competition authorities participate -
- Non-face-to-face (online) and face-to-face mixed method -
The Fair Trade Commission (Chairman Han Ki-jung) invites five employees of competition authorities from four countries, Kenya, Pakistan, Mongolia, and Vietnam, to conduct 11 days of practical training on competition laws and systems in Korea from October 23 (Monday) to November 3 (Fri).
Since 2008, the Fair Trade Commission has invited employees of competition authorities to conduct on-site practical training for new competition authorities who have no or lack of experience in enforcing competition laws. Countries subject to training are selected by receiving applications, and an appropriate number of countries are selected every year in consideration of their participation in existing training, expected effects of training, and trade relations with Korea.
The FTC's practical training is provided according to the stage of development of competition laws in selected countries and individual needs, and practical training is conducted so that FTC practitioners in charge of tasks in the field can participate as instructors and use them immediately after training.
As in previous years, the training will be conducted in a non-face-to-face (online) and face-to-face manner, and non-face-to-face training will be provided 10 times as a key area of the competition law, including cartels, business combinations, and regulations on abuse of market dominance, while face-to-face training will be conducted by FTC practitioners in charge of the practice to lecture on the FTC's legal system, case handling procedures, and major cases of the FTC (business combination, abuse of market dominance, cartels, etc.) so that participating countries can actually increase their competition law enforcement capabilities.
In addition, special lectures by external experts (professors, lawyers, etc.) allowed new competition authorities to gain implications for global competition law policy issues, while helping to increase practical use of education.
In particular, online lectures provided non-face-to-face were provided not only to those who participated in face-to-face training but also to employees of competition authorities in countries that hoped to participate in face-to-face training through the "CIAT-ON" platform of the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), allowing more new competition authorities to benefit from education.