SEOUL: South Korea’s parliament has passed a bill aimed mainly at limiting the powers of owner families of big business conglomerates – known as chaebol – over affiliates.
The revised fair trade law, passed late on Thursday, is designed to reduce sharply the voting rights in affiliates by financial and insurance companies within the same business group, according to a statement from the Fair Trade Commission.
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