{"id":37221,"date":"2022-10-05T16:09:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T20:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=37221"},"modified":"2022-10-05T16:24:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T20:24:12","slug":"south-korea-raids-apple-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/05\/south-korea-raids-apple-offices\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea Raids Apple Offices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fosspatents.com\/2022\/09\/apples-korean-offices-raided-by.html\">Florian Mueller<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2022\/09\/30\/apple-korea-offices-raided-antitrust-regulator\/\">MacRumors<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MacRumors\/status\/1575773267817771009\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.fosspatents.com\/2022\/09\/apples-korean-offices-raided-by.html\"><p>On Monday (September 26), it was confirmed that Apple&rsquo;s Korean headquarters in the city of Gangnam-gu were subjected to a dawn raid by the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC), which is Korea&rsquo;s antitrust authority.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>The mobile game developers who brought the complaint that gave rise to this dawn raid argue that Apple charges even more than 30% to developers with respect to the revenues they generate in South Korea. Apple charges 30% of the price paid by end users, which includes value added tax (VAT) and, therefore, is 10% higher than the ex-VAT amount on which Google bases its 30% commission.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>The KCC is investigating whether Apple, Google, and a local player are in compliance with last year&rsquo;s amendment to the country&rsquo;s Telecommunication Business Act, which requires app stores to allow third-party in-app payment services. Apple and Google (and possibly that local Korean player) don&rsquo;t really do that: they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fosspatents.com\/2022\/09\/google-is-fragmenting-android-with.html\">act in bad faith by making it prohibitively expensive to use alternative payment services<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if something else is going on here, because I thought it was well known that Apple (contra Google) takes its 30% <a href=\"https:\/\/appfigures.com\/support\/kb\/616\/how-vat-is-handled-by-apple-and-google-play\">before<\/a> subtracting the VAT.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/20\/app-store-prices-to-increase-in-europe\/\">App Store Prices to Increase in Europe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/09\/south-korea-investigates-app-store\/\">South Korea Investigates App Store<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/01\/south-korea-app-store-bill\/\">South Korea App Store Bill<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florian Mueller (MacRumors, tweet): On Monday (September 26), it was confirmed that Apple&rsquo;s Korean headquarters in the city of Gangnam-gu were subjected to a dawn raid by the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC), which is Korea&rsquo;s antitrust authority.[&#8230;]The mobile game developers who brought the complaint that gave rise to this dawn raid argue that Apple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-10-05T20:09:50Z","apple_news_api_id":"4e20191d-ff20-4a16-830c-4cf0c9bfe9a4","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-10-05T20:24:15Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ATiAZHf8gShaDDEzwyb_ppA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2085,91,38,31,2185,209,2108,1196],"class_list":["post-37221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-antitrust","tag-appstore","tag-apple","tag-ios","tag-ios-16","tag-legal","tag-south-korea","tag-taxes"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37228,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37221\/revisions\/37228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}