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by authority- Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) – 0 % · 1 case
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1 case
8 May 2025 Musinsa Co., Ltd., Shinsung Tongsang Co., Ltd., E-Land World Co., Ltd., ITX Korea Co., Ltd.Greenwashing on leather products: KFTC warns four fashion chains, including ZARA operator Reprimand or warning
The KFTC (Korea Fair Trade Commission, Korea's competition and consumer authority) found that Musinsa, Shinsung Tongsang, E-Land World and ITX Korea (operator of ZARA in Korea) had advertised leather products, including those made of synthetic materials, with blanket environmental terms such as 'eco' without sufficient evidence, and treated this as false, exaggerated and misleading advertising under the Labeling and Advertising Act. Because all four admitted the violations and corrected them voluntarily, it limited itself to warnings, issued between 2 April and 8 May 2025 (Shinsung Tongsang 2 April, Musinsa 10 April, E-Land World and ITX Korea 8 May); according to the KFTC it was the first sanctioned greenwashing case in the fashion sector.
Environmental claims such as 'eco' need a specific, substantiated reference to the whole product, otherwise they count as misleading.
Substantiated environmental claims in advertising and product labelling
- Authority / court
- Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC)
- Area of law
- Environment and sustainability · Misleading environmental and sustainability claims
- Legal basis
- Art. 3 Abs. 1 Nr. 1 Act on Fair Labeling and Advertising (Labeling and Advertising Act; falsche oder übertriebene Werbung)
- Action
- Reprimand or warning
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Retail and e-commerce
- Mitigating circumstances
- All four companies admitted the violations and corrected them voluntarily; the KFTC therefore limited itself to warnings.
- Published
- 15 May 2025
- KFTC press release (EN), 15 May 2025: Sanctions Imposed on Four Fashion SPA Business Operators for Violations of the Act on Fair Labeling and Advertising in Relation to Eco-friendliness Press release of an authority
- KFTC-Pressemitteilung (KO), 15.05.2025: 4개 패션 SPA브랜드 사업자의 부당한 광고행위 제재 Press release of an authority
- KFTC-Pressemitteilung (KO, PDF): Verwarnung (경고) der vier Unternehmen mit Datum je Unternehmen, Art. 3 Abs. 1 Nr. 1 표시광고법 Press release of an authority
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