Delivery Platform-Building Company Win-Win Consultative Group Fails to Reach Agreement Even At 7th Meeting

A win-win consultative body is struggling to solve the problem of excessive fees for delivery platforms that are making self-employed people cry.

A win-win consultative group consisting of four delivery apps, stores, and public interest committee members held its seventh meeting this afternoon at the Korea Fair Trade Coordination Agency on ways to ease the burden of fees, which is an issue, but failed to reach an agreement.

Public interest committee members have asked both sides to present a more advanced proposal at the next meeting considering their positions, and the win-win consultative body will hold additional meetings as soon as possible to coordinate the positions of the two sides, the Fair Trade Commission said.

Today's meeting focused on four requirements that the delivery platform store insisted on at the last meeting: ways to ease the burden on the store, such as fees, indicating the store's burden on the consumer receipt, suspending the demand for Choi Hye treatment, and sharing the location information of the delivery driver.

Based on the results of the last meeting, the delivery platform reviewed the requirements of the store company and presented the supplemented position of each company again, but the two sides repeatedly confirmed the difference in position.

The FTC is aiming to draw a win-win plan within this month and is pressuring delivery platforms to legislate commission rates if they fail to meet expectations.