Liberal lawmakers and academic experts urged South Korea to continue withholding detailed map data from Google, stressing that providing it could pose “serious threat to national security.” Multiple ...

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea delayed a decision on Friday on a request from Google for permission to export map data, following U.S. pressure to address what Washington regards as a non-tariff barrier ...

Every day hundreds of visitors step off the AREX train at Seoul Station, tap Google Maps, and discover that the blue-dot app they use everywhere from Berlin to Bangkok will not provide walking or ...

South Korea has once again postponed a decision on whether to approve Google’s request to transfer high-precision map data on the country’s geography to its international servers. In February, Google ...

South Korea is nearing a decision on whether to allow Google and Apple to export high-resolution geographic map data to servers outside the country. The detailed maps, which use a 1:5,000 scale, would ...

Few realize that South Korea bars foreign companies from exporting the mapping data necessary for digital map services. That may soon change.

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