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Kakao to Remove External Payment Link in Android App After Standoff with Google

Kakao to Remove External Payment Link in Android App After Standoff with Google

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 [...]

KakaoTalk Update on Google Play Store Suspended for Week amid Payment Link Standoff

KakaoTalk Update on Google Play Store Suspended for Week amid Payment Link Standoff

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 [...]

Kakao Keeps External Payment Link in App Against Google’s New Billing Policy

Kakao Keeps External Payment Link in App Against Google’s New Billing Policy

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 [...]

Google’s New In-app Billing Policy Prompts Price Hikes of Various Content Services

Google’s New In-app Billing Policy Prompts Price Hikes of Various Content Services

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 [...]

Google Retains Wrong Names for Locations in S. Korea: Civic Group

Google Retains Wrong Names for Locations in S. Korea: Civic Group

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’ [...]

Google’s In-app Purchase Rules Charge Consumers Billions

Google’s In-app Purchase Rules Charge Consumers Billions

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 [...]

S. Korean Regulator Unveils Guideline on World’s 1st In-app Payment Law

S. Korean Regulator Unveils Guideline on World’s 1st In-app Payment Law

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 [...]

S. Korea’s Cabinet OKs Revised Enforcement Decree on In-app Payment Law

S. Korea’s Cabinet OKs Revised Enforcement Decree on In-app Payment Law

SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Cabinet on Tuesday approved a revised bill that would ban app store operators from forcing developers to use their own in-app payment systems, the country’s telecommunications regulator said. The revision is a follow-up to the enforcement decree of the Telecommunications Business Act that went into effect in [...]