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SEOUL, Sept 10 — Apple refused to reinstate the wildly popular Fortnite game to its South Korean App Store today despite a new Seoul anti-monopoly law that effectively outlaws its lucrative digital payment platform, escalating an ongoing dispute with videogame developer Epic Games. The two firms...

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Expected to take effect in the coming days, it will make South Korea the first country to mandate such alternative payment options, allowing users to bypass charges set by store owners.on iOS in Korea offering both Epic payment and Apple payment side-by-side in compliance with the new Korean law,” the game company said on its verified Fortnite Twitter account today.

Apple and Google have faced global criticism for charging up to 30 per cent commission on app sales and requiring the use of their own payment systems, which collect a share of the transactions.

 

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