[巨與국감] Naver CEO Han Sung-sook “imposed an algorithm penalty, reviewed legal response

▲ Naver CEO Han Seong-sook attends the 2020 National Assembly Audit for the Office of State Affairs Coordination of the National Assembly Political Affairs Committee held at the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul, in the afternoon of the 22nd and answer questions. Left is Jae-Hyun Lim, Managing Director of Google Korea ⒸYonhap News

Naver CEO Han Seong-suk denied the controversy by revealing the meaning of the legal response to the controversy over search algorithm bias.

Jae-Hyun Lim, CEO of Google Korea, said: “About 97% of developers are already complying with payments within the application,” he said, giving a nuance that there is no problem with the policy of ‘payments within the app ‘.

At the overall audit of the Fair Trade Commission of the National Assembly Political Affairs Committee on the 22nd, CEO Han said: “We are clarifying what is necessary for the Fair Trade Commission case and reviewing the legal response internally. “. There are also disagreements over whether or not the FTC sanction is appropriate. ”

The FTC recently imposed a 26.7 billion won fine on Naver for tampering with purchases and searching for videos. The FTC believes that Naver has engaged in fraudulent activities, such as operating a shopping and video service, adjusting the search algorithm, increasing the exposure of its service, and placing it on the top.

Representative Han said, “Only open market oriented products were available and exposure to small and medium entrepreneurs entering the smart store was not possible. Therefore, we continued to review the source related part of the mall and considered how various products would come out. ” “I will fix the part that becomes a problem for SMEs) or where it is insufficient.

Regarding the policy of expanding the payment rate for the ‘Google Play’ application market to all applications and content, Google said: “We know that it only affects about 100 developers in Korea.”

Managing Director Lim said, “Approximately 97% of developers meet payments within the application,” he said. “There are only a few (affected developers) in the world.”

Until last year, he denied that the national payout for Google Play was close to 6 trillion won, saying, “According to App Annie, which manages the credible app market, it is estimated at 1.4 trillion won.”

In addition, he said about the six-month delay in the rate policy change in India, “because the payment system is a little different, it takes time to integrate it with the integrated Google Play system.

The National Assembly’s Committee on Communications and Dissemination of Scientific and Technological Information also adopted Google CEO Lim as a witness, and followed criticism from the Minister of Science, Technology and Communication.

Minister Choi said that day, “Google should not mislead consumers by showing its market power” and “Many companies entered because they did not enforce a 30% commission from the beginning.”

“I think you should look at related content from that point of view,” he said.