By Lori Wallach
South Korea is a perverse country to target with claims that countries’ existing and proposed domestic anti-monopoly and competition policies “discriminate” against U.S. tech platforms. South Korean law’s dominance designations capture both home-grown digital monopolists and foreign firms, including U.S. companies.
Indeed, an October 2025 South Korean Supreme Court decision overturning fines imposed by Korea’s competition agency against large local digital firm Naver triggered a push for reforms by South Korea pols. You would think legislators seeking to take action on digital monopoly abuses after a lack of progress achieved through enforcement actions would seem familiar in the United States, where a decade-plus of U.S. court cases have not broken U.S. Big Tech monopolies.
Yet none of this is stopping Congressional Republicans from holding hearings into South Korea’s imaginary malfeasance. And on Tuesday, December 17th, House Republicans, at the seeming behest of the Big Tech lobby, will hold an odd hearing, “Anti-American Antitrust: How Foreign Governments Target U.S. Businesses.”
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Originally published in The Economic Populist — a project of the American Economic Liberties Project.