Google decided to consider a plan to cut the payment fee of the app marketplace Google Play in half. It is an analysis that when the National Assembly started discussing the so-called’Google Goggle Prevention Act’, it released a’no horseback card’.
According to an official from the Department of Defense on the 23rd, it was reported that Google Korea announced to some members of the National Assembly Science and Technology Information Broadcasting and Communication that it is “persuading the headquarters that a policy to cut fees is necessary.” However, it is known that specific cut dates and standards were not mentioned. Google is considering a plan to cut the commission from the previously announced 30% to 15%.
Google plans to expand the in-app payment system, which was applied only to existing game apps, to all digital contents such as webtoons, music, and videos from October. Along with this, it raised controversy by revealing that it would raise 30% of the payment as a commission. Initially, the policy to expand in-app payments was scheduled to be implemented from January this year, but it was postponed to October this year due to backlash from the domestic industry.
Google, which had adhered to a 30% fee while delaying the policy application period, pulled out a fee-cutting card is interpreted as a measure to prevent the legislation of the so-called Google anti-government law promoted by the politics.
Currently, seven proposals for amendments to the Telecommunications Business Act have been proposed, in which lawmakers of the opposition and opposition parties have been named as representative sponsors of the Ministry of Defense. The National Defense Agency held a subcommittee on the Information and Communication Broadcasting Act on the same day to review the amendment, but suspended the bill. Naturally, the provisional parliamentary treatment in February was also canceled.
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