SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) on Wednesday slapped a combined fine of 100 billion won (US$71.9 million) on Google and Meta Platforms for collecting personal information without users’ consent and using it for personalized online advertising and other purposes, officials said. In a general meeting, the commission approved [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Google Inc. announced Tuesday that it had launched a project in collaboration with BTS to view various cities and buildings visited by members of the K-pop supergroup. Google Arts & Culture, the tech giant’s online exhibition site, hosted the BTS x Street Galleries to commemorate July 9th, the ‘birthday’ [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Corp., operator of South Korea’s most popular messaging app KakaoTalk, has decided to remove an external payment link from the Android version of the software, following a standoff with Google over the U.S. tech giant’s new in-app payment policy, sources said Wednesday. The standoff between the two companies [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The latest software update for KakaoTalk, South Korea’s most popular mobile messaging app, remained suspended for a week on the Google Play store Thursday, following the refusal by tech giant Kakao Corp. to comply with Google’s new in-app payment policy. Google turned down Kakao’s submission application for the latest [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Corp., operator of South Korea’s top mobile messenger KakaoTalk, has kept in place an external payment link in the Android version of the popular messaging software against Google’s new in-app payment policy. In April, Google required all app developers selling digital goods and services on the company’s Play [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean companies have raised charges for paid content services on Google as the U.S. tech giant prepares to remove apps with external payment links circumventing Google’s in-app payment system. Currently, many app developers on Google’s Play store directed users to external links for payment to circumvent Google’s billing [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — ‘Tschok-dschom’. This seemingly unreadable English word is actually used to refer to Gyeokryeolbi Yeoldo, the westernmost island in South Chungcheong Province. It is one of the 23 islands that determine South Korea’s territorial sea. A Google search for the island, however, returns a result that calls the island ‘Tschok-dschom’ [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Consumers are now being charged billions of won every year after streaming services decided to raise the prices of their subscription fees, ever since Google Inc. forced in-app purchases onto consumers, a lawmakers said Tuesday. Independent Rep. Yang Jung-suk reported that some 12.55 million monthly active users subscribed to [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s telecommunication regulator said Wednesday that it will impose fines on companies refusing to comply with a probe into the violation of a revised law banning app store operators from forcing developers to use their own in-app payment systems. The move is a follow-up measure to an enforcement [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s telecommunications regulator on Thursday unveiled a guideline to clarify potential violations of a revised law banning store operators, like Apple and Google, from forcing developers to use their own in-app payment systems. Earlier this week, the country’s Cabinet approved an enforcement decree revision of the Telecommunications Business [...]