‘납품업자에 갑질’ 농협하나로유통에 과징금 4억6천만원

The Agricultural Cooperative Han-o Roo-transmission was fined 46 million won ($36,200) by the Fair Trade Commission for unfair practices. The Fair Trade Commission issued a prohibition order, a notification order, and a fine of 46 million won against the cooperative for violating the Large-Scale Distribution Business Act. The cooperative operates 24 large and medium-sized department stores nationwide.

According to the Fair Trade Commission's investigation, Han-o Roo-transmission received 187 products that were not classified as new products, but were given the "new product entry incentive" of 3.236 million won due to the products being entered into 하나로마트 after being on the market for more than 6 months. The cooperative set the entry date as the standard for new products, and the cooperative received 10% of the entry fee for products entered into the 하나로마트 for up to 8 years and 9 months after the products were released.

The Fair Trade Commission determined that this was beyond the reasonable scope allowed by law. The Fair Trade Commission's "Sales Promotion Fee Prohibition Judgment Guidelines" states that products released within 6 months of release are considered new products. Han-o Roo-transmission employed 43 sales representatives for 10 different suppliers from April 2021 to January 2024 at 하나로마트.

This is in violation of the requirement to formally notify the sales representatives of their terms and conditions in writing before employment. Han-o Roo-transmission also received complaints for delaying the delivery of contract documents for 426 supply and lease agreements, as well as for the failure to specify the terms of the transaction, the transaction items, and the contract period.