OFT's report on e-commerce and its implication to competition policy presents the framework and the factors that should be considered in evaluating competitive activities. However, due to the lack of experience due to the limitation of its investigation power in the law before the revision of competition act in 1998, it is too early to expect that the proposed criteria will be properly implemented in the future. FTC proposes that the existing two guidelines can be a sound analytical foundation for collusion and monopsony power. It also insists that the past cases about exclusion can be applied to the exclusionary activities in e-marketplaces. KFTC's competition policy has problems in applying to competition activities in e-commerce area. First, the law and guidelines lack the principles, framework and criteria in implementing them. Second, KFTC seems not to have a broad view about the effects of e-commerce on competition activities and competition policy.

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