Established in 1970, Consumers Union of Korea (CUK) is the oldest consumer organisation in Korea and has 8 regional offices. CUK’s main activities are: handling consumer complaints (it handled 73,351 complaints in 2006), comparative testing, consumer education and health campaigning.

CUK has also created a E-commerce Centre in 2004 where consumers can get advice about problems relating to E-commerce.

CUK’s major areas of activity for 2006/2007 are:

• Food safety.
• GM food (monitoring the adverse health effects of GM food).
• campaign against tobacco consumption focussed on women.
• Consumer safety in E-commerce.