Merger Review Guidelines
The Guidelines for M&A Review (hereinafter referred to as the
“Guidelines”) provides detailed criteria for determining anticompetitive
mergers. The current Guidelines (KFTC Notification No.2007-12) were
amended on December 20, 2007 and the part “IX. Review Period” was added
on August 20, 2009 (KFTC Notification No.2009-39). As seen above, the
former review guidelines were applied to the Samick case. This paper will
briefly look at the current Guidelines.