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Who was sanctioned, and for what?
Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa: 2,033 cases from 44 jurisdictions, each with an official source and checked against that source before publication. Filter by country, area of law and sector. Click a chart to drill down one level.
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Where?
by authority- Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) 1 case 50 % · €384.3m
- Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC, 개인정보보호위원회) 1 case 50 % ·
What for?
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Who?
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per quarter, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
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| Q4 2023 | 0 | – |
| Q1 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q2 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q3 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q4 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q1 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q2 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q3 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q4 2025 | 1 | – |
| Q1 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q2 2026 | 1 | €384.3m |
| Q3 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q4 2026 | 0 | – |
2 cases
20 May 2026 Sajo DongAOne, Daehan Flour Mills, CJ CheilJedang u. a. (7 Unternehmen)Flour cartel: record KRW 671bn fine on seven mills €384.3m
According to the KFTC (Korea Fair Trade Commission, Korea's competition authority), seven flour manufacturers with a combined 87.7% of the B2B market coordinated, on 24 occasions between November 2019 and October 2025, the timing and extent of price changes as well as supply volumes and supply rankings towards large buyers such as noodle and confectionery manufacturers, including while receiving government price stabilisation subsidies. In addition to a cease-and-desist order, the KFTC ordered an independent re-determination of prices and imposed fines totalling KRW 671,045 million, the highest amount in any cartel case to date: Sajo DongAOne KRW 183,097 million, Daehan Flour Mills KRW 179,273 million, CJ CheilJedang KRW 131,701 million, Samyang KRW 94,787 million, Daesun Flour Mills KRW 38,448 million, Hantop KRW 24,291 million, Samhwa Flour Mills KRW 19,448 million.
Anyone already sanctioned for a cartel must expect considerably harsher consequences if contacts with competitors resume.
Price and volume agreements with competitors
- Authority / court
- Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Art. 40 Abs. 1 Nr. 1 und Nr. 3 MRFTA (Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Food and agriculture
- Repeat case
- yes
- Liability of senior managers
- Measures against individuals are not set out here.
- Published
- 20 May 2026
Original amount 671,045,000,000 KRW, converted at the ECB reference rate of 20 May 2026.
- KFTC press release (EN), 21 May 2026: Sanctions Imposed on Seven Flour Millers for Flour Price-Fixing Press release of an authority
- KFTC-Pressemitteilung (KO), 20.05.2026: 7개 제분사 밀가루 담합 적발·제재 Press release of an authority
- KFTC-Pressemitteilung (KO, PDF) mit Tabelle 5 (Geldbußen je Mühle) und Rechtsgrundlage Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 4 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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26 Nov 2025 Starbucks CorporationStarbucks: order over inadequate oversight of audit provider in Korea Order
Starbucks Corporation had suppliers in Korea audited under its Ethical Sourcing Program by Elevate Hong Kong Holdings Limited, did not conclude a processing contract containing all statutory terms and did not supervise the provider adequately; Elevate processed unnecessarily large amounts of data on supplier employees, such as personnel files, wage and working-time records, and transferred them out of the businesses. The authority ordered Starbucks to award such work only under a written contract with all mandatory terms and to train and supervise the provider, and recommended data minimisation; a separate order was issued against Elevate.
Supply chain audits process personal data too – the commissioning company needs a complete processing contract and must check that the audit provider collects no more than necessary.
Data processing in supplier audits
Missing or inadequate training played a role in the decision.
- Authority / court
- Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC, 개인정보보호위원회)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data processors
- Legal basis
- Personal Information Protection Act (개인정보 보호법) Art. 26(1) und (4)
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Food and agriculture
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 27 Nov 2025
- PIPC, 심의·의결서 제2025-024-301호 (Starbucks Corporation), 26.11.2025 Decision of an authority
- PIPC, Entscheidungsdatenbank (위원회 결정문), Eintrag 2023조일0035 등 3건 Enforcement database of an authority
- PIPC-Pressemitteilung vom 27.11.2025: 개인정보를 과다 수집‧처리한 스타벅스 본사(미국), 엘리베이트(홍콩)에 시정명령 Press release of an authority
- PIPC press release (English), 03.12.2025: The PIPC Issues Correction Orders on Starbucks and Elevate Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 4 Oct 2026 · Direct link