Lawmakers criticize Google for threatening YouTubers, Google Korea responds with concerns over bill = Korea

Google Korea President Kim John Hoon and Netflix Service Korea Senior Managing Director Jeong Gyu-Hwa attended the national parliamentary audit held at the Science and Technology Committee of the National Assembly on October 21st as witnesses.

On this day, Gautam Anand, vice president of YouTube Asia Pacific, posted on the official blog, "We express our concern about the bill to prevent non-payment of network usage fees being discussed in the Korean National Assembly. If the law is revised, YouTube will We may be forced to make a difficult decision to change the way we do business in South Korea."

Rep. Yoon Young-chan, who is also a Democratic Party member, criticized, “It is a threat that there is a possibility of changing the operation method in South Korea when we have not decided how to change it,” while President Kim said, “I only conveyed my concerns," he replied.

President Kim denies Rep. Yoon's remarks, saying, "If YouTube pays network usage fees, it may pass it on to YouTubers and creators."

Furthermore, when Rep. Yoon questioned that Google had mobilized YouTubers to oppose the legislation, Kim replied, "I did not mobilize YouTubers, I just appealed to them to raise their voices."

Rep. Yoon said that despite Google's sales in South Korea reaching 5 trillion won, the tax payable to South Korea is 13.8 billion won because it has servers in Singapore. 43.6 million yen), and we are pursuing the point that we do not pay network usage fees.