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Financial watchdog moves to curb misleading investment advertising
Translated from Korean and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
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- South Korea’s financial authorities plan to overhaul the production and review systems for investment-product advertising.
- The measures include prior review of externally provided information and new penalty rules for misleading or exaggerated advertisements.
- The Financial Supervisory Service and the Korea Financial Investment Association discussed the changes with industry officials in Seoul.
South Korea’s financial authorities are tightening controls on investment-product advertising, targeting claims that could mislead investors.
The Financial Supervisory Service and the Korea Financial Investment Association plan to overhaul how financial investment companies produce and review advertisements. The new system will include prior checks on information provided outside the companies.
The authorities also created rules for imposing penalties on advertisements that violate the standards. Officials presented the measures to representatives of the financial investment industry at an event in Seoul’s Yeouido district.
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Originally published by Chosun Ilbo in Korean. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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