{"id":1018419,"date":"2026-07-02T08:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018419"},"modified":"2026-07-02T09:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:17:14","slug":"google-faces-antitrust-heat-in-south-korea-over-android-app-dominance-with-project-hug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/02\/google-faces-antitrust-heat-in-south-korea-over-android-app-dominance-with-project-hug\/","title":{"rendered":"Google faces antitrust heat in South Korea over android app dominance with \u2018project hug\u2019"},"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 in the Android app 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 in the Android app 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":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018419","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=1018419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018455,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018419\/revisions\/1018455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}