{"id":1018252,"date":"2026-07-02T07:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T02:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018252"},"modified":"2026-07-02T07:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T02:08:15","slug":"south-korean-trade-watchdog-alleges-google-abused-its-position-in-android-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/02\/south-korean-trade-watchdog-alleges-google-abused-its-position-in-android-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korean trade watchdog alleges Google abused its position in Android app store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s antitrust regulator alleged on Wednesday that Alphabet&#8217;s Google abused its dominant position in the Android app marketplace to hinder competition and will recommend corrective measures and a financial penalty. <\/p>\n<p>The Korea Fair Trade Commission&#8217;s (KFTC) Market Surveillance Bureau found Google&#8217;s alleged abuse of market dominance \u200cin the \u2060Android \u2060app marketplace affected 14.16 trillion won ($9.1 billion) in revenue, the bureau said in a media briefing where it released its examiner&#8217;s report on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s antitrust regulator alleged on Wednesday that Alphabet&#8217;s Google abused its dominant position in the Android app marketplace to hinder competition and will recommend corrective measures and a financial penalty. The Korea Fair Trade Commission&#8217;s (KFTC) Market Surveillance Bureau found Google&#8217;s alleged abuse of market dominance \u200cin the \u2060Android \u2060app marketplace affected 14.16 trillion won ($9.1 billion) in revenue, the bureau said in a media briefing where it released its examiner&#8217;s report on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018260,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018252\/revisions\/1018260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}