{"id":53156,"date":"2017-11-24T06:38:21","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T06:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=53156"},"modified":"2017-11-24T06:38:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T06:38:21","slug":"apple-offices-south-korea-raided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/apple-offices-south-korea-raided.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple offices in South Korea raided once again"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Apple offices in South Korea raided once again<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Apple offices in South Korea raided once again:- According to a report from a London newspaper, Apple\u2019s offices in South Korea have been raided by regulators, just ahead of the launch of the iPhone X in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The Metro reports that authorities visited Apple\u2019s office and questioned the company\u2019s business practices ahead of the widespread international release of the iPhone X.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Last year, South Korea opened an investigation in a bid to discover whether Apple struck \u2018unfair\u2019 contracts with local phone networks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">It\u2019s understood the latest raid is part of this ongoing probe, which was launched just months after the American firm took action to address officials\u2019 concern about other \u2018unfair\u2019 contracts with South Korean firms commissioned to repair iPhones and other gadgets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">In previous years, analysts and commentators have described the South Korean government\u2019s actions against Apple as a \u201cwitchhunt.\u201d The country is known for the close \u2014 and sometimes corrupt \u2014 ties between corporations and government. Samsung, Apple\u2019s biggest mobile device rival, is based in South Korea, and makes up a significant portion of the country\u2019s GDP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The Korean Fair Trade Commission has been accused in the past of paying particular attention to foreign firms, as the Metro notes in its story:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">In 2015, the year when Apple grabbed a historic 33% share of the South Korean smartphone market, the FTC launched a task force dedicated to exploring whether foreign firms were hurting the domestic smartphone market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/bgr.com\/2017\/11\/23\/apple-vs-samsung-office-raid-south-korea\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/apple-offices-south-korea-raided.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple offices in South Korea raided once again Apple offices in South Korea raided once again:- According to a report from a London newspaper, Apple\u2019s offices in South Korea have been raided by regulators, just ahead of the launch of the iPhone X in the country. 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