New Program Polcies for South Korea
Earlier this year, a South Korean Watchdog agency decided that Google’s program policies were unfair, and ordered them to have a new, more publisher-friendly version of their program policies. Today I noticed that they had a different version of their program policies for South Korea. Here is a link to the regular version of the program policies.
Unfortunately, the South Korean version of the program policies are in Korean (of course), so it is very hard to figure out what the differences are. Interestingly I tried to use Google translation on the page and got a message saying “Sorry, this URL is invalid”. Using Babelfish worked though. Trying to read the translated version makes for some fun reading though, for example:
Participation of the site against the program whole or a part the middle finger or it will be able to end and (the participation with a main contract or the program only, program, end of the Google or notice of the middle finger to you the middle finger or is regarded that it is ended in after where after 10 business day which is received elapses).
Notice of the middle finger? Sounds like some interesting policies there.
It seems like the main differences are in section 6 “Termination; Cancellation”. There is a lot more verbiage in the South Korean version than there is in the standard version.
I’m sure someone who know Korean will eventually let us know what the differences are. I’ll update this post with a link when that happens.
