[The Hankyoreh, October 17 2007] Corporate watchdog consents to dropping of Microsoft's appeal case

South Korea's corporate watchdog said Wednesday it consents to a decision by U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp. to withdraw its appeal against an antitrust ruling issued by the watchdog.

On Tuesday, Microsoft was found to have withdrawn its appeal against a ruling by the Fair Trade Commission (FTC) that fined the company for breach of fair competition regulations and ordered the separate sale of bundled programs from its Windows operating system.