South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission has fined Google 42.1 billion won for blocking developers from releasing mobile video games on a Korean competitor platform called One Store. The KFTC said in a statement that Google boosted its market dominance and hurt local app market One Store’s revenue and value as a platform, by requiring video game makers to exclusively release their titles on Google Play in exchange for providing in-app exposure between June 2016 and April 2018. Reference Link
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