EU 및 일본 디지털플랫폼 규제 현황과 정책적 함의

Implications from Regulations on Digital Platforms in EU and Japan

(Purpose) The digital platform industry is a winner-take-all structure. It is due to the nature of the multi-sided market. The winner of the digital platform war maximizes profits by putting on various business models. It expands its business by inducing a powerful network effect. However, the harm caused by platform monopoly in the winner-take-all structure is very serious. This is the reason why a new market order and competition standards are needed in the era of platform economy. Order and standards are regulation in other words. Platform regulation is already a global trend. The purpose of this paper is to review the regulatory methods of the EU and Japan to extract implications. (Design/methodology/approach) This article deals with Digital Services Act(DSA) in the EU. At the same time as introducing the outline or the recent discussion about DSA in the EU. And we would like to obtain implications through comparison with the recently enacted Digital Platform Regulation Act in Japan. This paper is differentiated in that it includes EU member states views on DSA and comparisons between DSA and the Japanese Digital Platform Regulation Act. And we also examine the reasons why many countries are trying to regulate digital platforms recently. (Findings) Currently, there is no law in Korea such as DSA that integrates the role required for digital platforms to cope with issues relating to the basic rights of the people and major social values, and there is no discussion on the necessity of enacting such laws. (Research implications or Originality) This paper emphasizes the fact that it is necessary to consider enacting a law that can integrate and manage the public responsibilities required of digital platforms in order to guarantee the basic rights of the people or to protect major social values.