Google to challenge Korea Government: unfair restriction map service Google maps, Google-IT information

According to the online edition of the Wall Street Journal reported that Google Alphabet limits of the parent company in Korea to provide mapping services to Korea Government challenged a rare public challenge to the Government.

Google said that Korea's national security law obsolete, unfairly restricted it in Korea's ability to provide a complete Google Maps service. In most markets, Google has a dominant position, regulatory attempts to control its impact. Last month, the EU accused of abusing its Android market dominance to unfairly promote its use.

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Korea failed to become the leading search engine is Google, one of the few countries, which China and Russia is not the dominant search engine. In Korea, Naver is the first major search engine and map services.

Korea land and Transport Ministry official Kim Tong-il said, "our main issue is national security", Google Korea's main rival,--Naver and Kakao, uses maps provided by the Government, sensitive information is obfuscated. Google officials claimed that the Korea national security laws have been used to protect the Naver and Kakao, their Korean mapping service in Korea has a dominant position. Google said the Korea law is not conducive to innovation.

The problem for Google is, Korea law prohibited "export map data provided by the Government." Google has argued that to provide features such as car, bus information and satellite navigation map, it must export map data . Google said that since 2008, Google has been to Korea homeland Ministry to obtain a licence, but without success. Since 2008, Google said, China did not ban its map service.

Google said that it can provide more features than in the North Korea. Google's initial 2008 in Korea launched a basic version of the map service, and plans to introduce a variety of other services, including real-time traffic information and navigation, 3D map. But Google has not been fulfilled, because Korea Government ban on exporting data to map outside the data center.

Korea Government officials said Google did not comply with the laws of that State, would allow power plants, military bases and Government installations in the country faced potential risks. Kim said that "in Korea, Google has been to blur sensitive information. We require the same treatment by Google is overseas. ”

Google with its policy on disputed territories in East Asia as rejected Korea Government requirements. Google software engineer Kwon Bom-jun said in an interview, "this is the reason why we have an independent domain name services. Once we integrate these features will bring chaos to other countries. ”

Google base map services is located in Korea within third-party servers, but other services rely on its data center in the world, "no matter in Korea how much server, map of all our services are not only in Korea territory."

谷歌叫板韩国政府：限制地图服务不公平 - 谷歌地图,Google - IT资讯

据《华尔街日报》网络版报道，谷歌母公司Alphabet就限制在韩国提供地图服务事宜向韩国政府提出质疑，罕见地向政府公开叫板。

谷歌称，韩国国家安全法律陈旧，不公平地限制它在韩国提供完整谷歌地图服务的能力。在大多数市场，谷歌具有主导地位，监管部门都会尝试控制其影响力。上个月，欧盟指控谷歌滥用Android市场主导地位，不公平地推广其应用。

▲韩国总统府青瓦台在谷歌(全球)地图中清晰可见

▲谷歌地图服务在韩国大受限制

但韩国是谷歌没有能够成为主导搜索引擎的少数国家之一，它在中国和俄罗斯也不是占有主导地位的搜索引擎。在韩国，Naver是第一大搜索引擎和地图服务。

韩国国土交通部官员Kim Tong-il说，“我们提出的主要问题是国家安全”，谷歌在韩国的主要对手——Naver和Kakao，只使用政府提供的地图，敏感信息经过模糊处理。谷歌高官则声称，韩国国家安全法律被用来保护Naver和Kakao，它们的韩语地图服务在韩国具有主导地位。谷歌称，韩国法律不利于创新。

谷歌面临的问题是，韩国法律禁止企业“导出政府提供的地图数据”。谷歌则辩称，要提供汽车导航、公交信息和卫星地图等特性，它必须导出地图数据。谷歌称，自2008年以来，谷歌一直在向韩国国土交通部申请牌照，但没有成功。谷歌称自2008年以来，中国没有封杀其地图服务。

谷歌称，它在朝鲜能提供的特性多于韩国。谷歌最初2008年在韩国推出了基本版本的地图服务，并计划推出多款其他服务，其中包括实时车流信息、3D地图和导航。但谷歌一直没有如愿以偿，原因是韩国政府禁止把地图数据导出到境外数据中心。

韩国政府官员称，谷歌不遵守该国法律，将使该国发电厂、军事基地和政府设施面临潜在风险。Kim说，“在韩国，谷歌已经对敏感信息进行了模糊处理。我们要求谷歌在海外进行同样的处理。”

谷歌以其对东亚有争议领土的政策为由拒绝了韩国政府要求。谷歌软件工程师Kwon Bom-jun在接受采访时说，“这是我们有独立域名服务的原因。一旦我们整合这些特性，会给其他国家带来混乱。”

谷歌基本地图服务使用了位于韩国境内的第三方服务器，但其他服务依赖于其位于全球的数据中心，“无论我们在韩国拥有多少服务器，我们的全部地图服务都无法只在韩国境内运行”。