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SOUTH KOREAN SCREEN QUOTA SYSTEM LIMITING COMPETITION: FTC.
SEOUL, Aug 1 Asia Pulse - A booklet by the Fair Trade Commission (FTC) designed to educate local government officials has been found to describe South Korea's screen quota system as inhibiting free competition.
The material made public today also called for liberalization of the country's education and medical sectors, claiming that imposing uniform standards which limit competition will result in a falloff in efficiency and technological innovation.
It cited price limits, licenses and permits, private contract arrangements and the screen quota as some of the more noticeable hindrances to competition.
The screen quota, which obligates local theaters to show Korean-made movies for a set number of days each year, has been the center of heated debate, with some in the government wanting to abolish the rule and others claiming it must be preserved in its entirety.
The watchdog's material, moreover, suggested that the ...
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- News wire article from: YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea January 27, 2006 700+ words
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- News wire article from: YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea June 17, 2004 700+ words
...to lower the screen quota. "We unanimously...the current quota system," Chung Ji...the current screen quota system was unnecessary...altering the quota system has nothing...the BIT. The screen quota was introduced...