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Google has officially announced an increase in app fees.

From next year, it has announced that it will force a 30% commission on all content sold on Google Play, but the domestic content industry is strongly opposing it, saying it is an excessive traffic trend.



Reporter Kim Ki-tae's report.



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Google is currently forcing only game apps to pass through Google's payment system, but announced that it will expand to all digital content in the future.



[Funima Coach Car/Google Play App Development Supervisor: All digital content distributed through Google Play must be made through the Google Play system if there is an in-app purchase.] A



30% commission is charged on virtually all payments made on Google Play

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It means it applies.



Newly registered apps will start on January 20 of next year, and existing apps will start from October next year.



Google earned consensus from the domestic industry by saying that it gave numerous content app providers an opportunity to enter the global market through Google Play.



[Funima Kochika/Google Play app development manager: This success of Naver and Kakao, the top Korean companies, would have been difficult if it were not for Google Play's payment system...

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domestic content industry was strongly opposed.



[Domestic content industry officials: It can be said that the success of Korean services overseas is because of the strength of the service and their original efforts, not because of (Google's) in-app payment.]



Last year, the domestic Google Play payment amount was close to 6 trillion won and the market share reached 63.4%, so Google's influence in the domestic mobile content market is overwhelming.



Domestic start-ups are inevitable, and the price of music sources, webtoons, and video services is expected to rise, increasing consumer burden.



[Hansanghyeok / Broadcast Communications Chairman (the last two days, the National Assembly over discharge above the plenary): itgoyo and believe is enough possession to those in the business law prohibited acts are to review the contents to]



the Korea Communications Commission's decision of Google We started to check the actual condition of whether it is a prohibited act under the Telecommunications Business Act.



(Video editing: Jeon Min-gyu, screen provided: Google Korea)