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Today (23), the subcommittee for the review of bills of the Commission for Communication and Dissemination of Scientific Technology Information of the National Assembly was held, but the ‘Google In-App Payment Obligatory Prevention Law’ was broke again.
If the ‘payment in the application’ is forced to buy applications with money from Google App Market (Google Play) from the fourth quarter of this year, it is expected that national developers will increase the charge of the fee of only 88.5 billion from won to up to 3.442 trillion won However, the National Assembly is criticized for displaying a lukewarm attitude.
Currently, applications other than games can use the external payment system created by the application developer when paying for content within the application, but as of Q4, applications must also use Google’s integrated payment system . At this point, you have to pay a 30% fee to Google.
In particular, there was criticism of the National Assembly going over to the Google lobby after Google’s side delivered a story to Park Seong-joong’s secretary’s office that “we are discussing a plan to cut the fee by 30% on 15% with the central office. ‘
A Defense Ministry official said: “The second named President Park Seong-joong did not process the bill because it required an in-depth discussion.
He said: “A total of six bills have been proposed (amendments to the Telecommunications Business Act) and there is an alternative to the committee, so the bill is ready to be handled by the subcommittee. That day, there was an agreement between the ruling party and the opposition parties that prevented certain payment methods from being enforced, so even if we try to pass it, we will continue to establish an additional term and discuss again.
The dominant operation of Google’s app store and in-app payments is causing a backlash from the domestic content and internet industries.
According to the survey results presented by the Korea Communications Commission by Cho Seung-rae and the Democratic Party legislator, 37.8% of the 315 responding app providers responded that they experienced app registration rejection, delay in review and removal. App registration review delays accounted for the largest share (88.2%), 44.5% rejected the app registration, and 33.6% experienced app removal.
The app markets where app developers experienced app registration rejection were 65.5% in the Google Play Store, 58.0% in the Apple App Store, and 1.7% in the One Store. Even in cases where app registrations were rejected without a separate explanation, Google Play Store 17.9% and Apple App Store 8.7%.
Consequently, Koo Bonki Life Economic Research Institute, Financial Justice Solidarity, Korea Publishing Culture Association, People’s Economic Research Institute, Venture Business Association, Citizen Safety Network, Correct Communication Welfare Alliance, Korean Popular Literature Writers Association, Korea Consumers’ Association, Korea Web Novel Industry Association, Korea 17 organizations such as Web Novel Association, Korea Music Contents Association, Korea Internet Enterprise Association, Korea Electronic Publishing Association, Korea Creative Story Writers Association, Korean Publishers Association and Korea YMCA National Federation made a joint statement on the 18th and forced the National Assembly to make payments from the application and urged that prevention laws be passed.
Meanwhile, the ‘Online Platform User Protection Act’, which is another internet industry concern, was also not presented to the subcommittee that day. This is because the division of labor between the Korea Communications Commission and the FTC was not achieved properly.
