The Korea Fair Trade Commission was said on the 7th to have detected suspected collusion by two companies, CJ OliveNetworks and Seyon Inet, in bids for tablet PCs ordered by city and provincial education offices, and to have launched an on-site investigation.
According to the industry that day, the Korea Fair Trade Commission (FTC) sent Researchers to the headquarters of the two companies suspected of bid rigging and is conducting on-site inspections. The investigation runs through the 8th.
City and provincial education offices supply tablet PCs to elementary, middle and high schools through bidding to promote digital education for students. The Korea Fair Trade Commission (FTC) believes that in this process, CJ OliveNetworks and Seyon Inet took turns preselecting the successful bidder and acted as a decoy in bids they did not intend to win, colluding in the bidding.
Earlier in 2020, the Korea Fair Trade Commission (FTC) caught 12 software distributors, including DotnetSoft, colluding in bids for the purchase of office software ordered by city and provincial education offices and imposed a penalty surcharge of 456 million won.