{"id":126993,"date":"2021-08-31T10:22:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T17:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/south-korea-becomes-first-country-to-curb-google-and-apples-payment-dominance-in-landmark-ruling"},"modified":"2021-08-31T10:22:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T17:22:59","slug":"south-korea-becomes-first-country-to-curb-google-and-apples-payment-dominance-in-landmark-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/south-korea-becomes-first-country-to-curb-google-and-apples-payment-dominance-in-landmark-ruling","title":{"rendered":"South Korea becomes first country to curb Google and Apple\u2019s payment dominance in landmark ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/south-korea-becomes-first-country-to-curb-google-and-apples-payment-dominance-in-landmark-ruling.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s parliament has approved a bill that will make it the first country to impose curbs on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/GOOGL\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/AAPL\" target=\"_blank\">Apple\u2019s<\/a> payment policies that force developers to only use the tech giants\u2019 proprietary billing systems.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation will become law once signed by President Moon Jae-in, whose party has been a vocal supporter of the bill.<\/p>\n<p>Apple and Google\u2019s policies usually require developers to pay the tech giants a commission as high as 30% of every transaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea\u2019s parliament has approved a bill that will make it the first country to impose curbs on Google and Apple\u2019s payment policies that force developers to only use the tech giants\u2019 proprietary billing systems. The legislation will become law once signed by President Moon Jae-in, whose party has been a vocal supporter of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1496,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}