{"id":126170,"date":"2022-06-30T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T07:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/news\/?id=q0feipe4"},"modified":"2022-06-30T07:00:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T07:00:31","slug":"update-on-apps-distributed-in-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/06\/30\/update-on-apps-distributed-in-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on apps distributed in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/update-on-apps-distributed-in-south-korea.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Apple designed the App&nbsp;Store to be a safe and trusted place to discover and download apps. Apple\u2019s in-app purchase system, an integral part of our world-class commerce platform, offers people around the world a private and secure user experience across apps and Apple devices, and makes it easy for them to manage their purchases and subscriptions for digital goods and services.<\/p>\n<p>The Telecommunications Business Act in South&nbsp;Korea was recently amended to mandate that apps distributed by app market operators in South&nbsp;Korea be allowed to offer an alternative payment processing option within their apps. To comply with this law, developers can use the StoreKit External Purchase Entitlement. This entitlement allows apps distributed on the App&nbsp;Store solely in South&nbsp;Korea the ability to provide an alternative in-app payment processing option. Developers who want to continue using Apple\u2019s in-app purchase system may do so and no further action is needed.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re considering using this entitlement, it\u2019s important to understand that some App&nbsp;Store features, such as Ask to Buy and Family Sharing, will not be available to your users, in part because we cannot validate payments that take place outside of the App&nbsp;Store\u2019s private and secure payment system. Apple will not be able to assist users with refunds, purchase history, subscription management, and other issues encountered when purchasing digital goods and services through an alternative purchasing method. You will be responsible for addressing such issues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/support\/storekit-external-entitlement-kr\"><span class=\"icon icon-after icon-chevronright nowrap\">Learn more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple designed the App&nbsp;Store to be a safe and trusted place to discover and download apps. Apple\u2019s in-app purchase system, an integral part of our world-class commerce platform, offers people around the world a private and secure user experience across apps and Apple devices, and makes it easy for them to manage their purchases and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-developer-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}