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NCSoft first to face raid in South Korean probe over alleged Google rebate scheme

By Jenny Lee ( June 24, 2025, 06:45 GMT | Insight) -- South Korean online game studio NCSoft has become the first known target of a field inspection in the country's antitrust investigation into allegations that Google offered illegal rebates to major gaming companies to maintain its dominance in the app marketplace. MLex was told the Korea Fair Trade Commission visited NCSoft’s offices earlier this week to collect internal materials as part of an probe into whether Google in 2019 used revenue-sharing arrangements and other perks to keep its games exclusively on Google Play rather than releasing them on competing app stores.South Korean online game studio NCSoft has become the first known target of a field inspection in the country's antitrust investigation into allegations that Google offered illegal rebates to major gaming companies to maintain its dominance in the app marketplace....

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