Google announced on the 15th that starting July 1, it will apply a 15% fee for sales of about 1.1 billion won to all developers, and a 30% fee for excess sales.
The company called it a’half-price fee’. Fees are applied based on the developer’s annual sales.
For example, if the developer’s annual sales are 2 billion won, they pay 15% for 1.1 billion won and 30% for the excess sales of 900 million won.
The same fees are not applied to apps that are provided for free on Google Play and apps that trade real goods.
Google said, “Going from the decision to apply the half-price fee, we plan to focus more on supporting small and medium-sized developers to develop the domestic app ecosystem.”
Google aroused controversy when it announced in September last year that it would force only its own payment method for all digital contents in the app market from the beginning of this year. When Google enforces in-app payment, the burden increases because app developers have to charge 30% of the transaction amount as a fee.
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Accordingly, a number of cooperative organizations, such as the Korea Internet Business Association and the Korea Web Novel Industry Association, oppose the Google in-app payment policy. It has repeatedly appealed to him wishing to keep its promise to protect app developers and consumers by banning it.
In the meantime, the National Assembly has proposed seven amendments to the Telecommunications Business Act under the name of the’Google Goblin Prevention Act’. Recognizing this, Google decided to postpone related policy changes until October this year only in Korea, and the discussion of the bill was temporarily suspended.