{"id":137998,"date":"2021-11-04T18:37:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T18:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=137998"},"modified":"2023-09-15T19:12:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T18:12:23","slug":"google-reveals-plans-to-integrate-third-party-payment-systems-into-apps-in-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/google-reveals-plans-to-integrate-third-party-payment-systems-into-apps-in-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Google reveals plans to integrate third-party payment systems into apps in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"

The search giant has officially\u00a0announced plans\u00a0for a bill passed in South Korea that prohibits digital store owners from restricting developers from choosing payment systems for payment in their applications.<\/p>\n

It is reported that Google will allow alternative payment methods along with its own billing, but will still continue to charge developers a commission, even if the user uses a third-party solution.\u00a0In this case, the commission will be reduced by 4%, which, according to Google, will be a fair compensation for the costs of maintaining an alternative billing system.<\/p>\n

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This option will allow the company to comply with South Korean law while continuing to invest in the Google Play ecosystem, according to Google.<\/p>\n

As for Apple, the Cupertinians insist that its current policy\u00a0meets the<\/a>\u00a0requirements of the Korean authorities.\u00a0Since the relevant law states that applications should not contain an uncontested payment method that provides for “unreasonable fees”, Apple, apparently, will continue to argue that its fees are not unreasonable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The search giant has officially\u00a0announced plans\u00a0for a bill passed in South Korea that prohibits digital store owners from restricting developers from choosing payment systems for payment in their applications. It is reported that Google will allow alternative payment methods along with its own billing, but will still continue to charge developers a commission, even if […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":169131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[805],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-137998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}