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Consumers need to pay attention to damage related to air travel, shipping service, and gift certificates that frequently occurs during the Lunar New Year holidays | |||||||||||
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Date | 2019-03-20 | Hit | 1288 | ||||||||
Consumers need to pay attention to damage related to air travel, shipping service, and gift certificates that frequently occurs during the Lunar New Year holidays - KCA and KFTC issued a consumer alert for the Lunar New Year holidays -
□ The Korea Consumer Agency (President Lee, Hee-sook, KCA) and the Korea Fair Trade Commission (Chairperson Sang-jo, KFTC) jointly issued a consumer alert urging consumers to watch out for damage relating to air travel, shipping services, and gift certificates which frequently cause consumer damage over the Lunar New Year holidays. The number of consumers using air travel, shipping services, and gift certificates significantly increases especially in January and February, including the Lunar New Year holidays, and over the past three (3) years, the number of consumer counseling* and damage redress** cases relating to damages arising from the use of air travel, shipping services, and gift certificates continued to increase, prompting consumers to pay extra attention. * consumer counseling: 21,193 cases (2016) → 23, 756 cases (2017) → 24,736 cases (2018) ** damage redress: 1,676 cases (2016) → 1,748 cases (2017) → 1,954 cases (2018)
[ Current status regarding consumer counseling and damage redress cases received from Jan. to Feb. over the past three (3) years ]
□ Consumers need to refer to the information regarding the practical example cases of damage and matters requiring attention included in the consumer alert so that they do not sustain similar damage.
▶Matters requiring consumers’attention
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