• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.815-816
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• 2015

인앱결제 시스템이란 애플리케이션(앱) 내 결제 시스템을 통한 결제행위를 말하며, 다운받은 앱은 무료일 수 있지만 앱 내에서 별도의 유료아이템 등을 구매 할 경우 유료결제가 일어날 수 있다는 것을 뜻한다. 인앱결제는 한번의 등록을 거친 후 단 한번의 비밀번호 입력을 통하여 결제가 된다. 스마트폰 보급 확대에 따라 오픈마켓의 게임 등 모바일콘텐츠 거래 증가로 유료 콘텐츠 결제와 관련한 이용자 피해가 급증하며 이용자 불편, 불만(인앱결제 피해)으로 인한 피해가 다수 발생하고 있다. 본 논문은 이러한 휴대폰 인앱결제 시스템의 문제점을 파악하고 인앱결제로 인한 피해 예방을 하기 위한 보안서비스를 제시한다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.93-105
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• 2019

This study want to identify problems related to mobile in-app payment from the perspective of consumers and suggest ways to solve them. Three scenarios have been developed to achieve the objectives of this study. This suggests the situation of in-app payment problem that consumers often experience. Then 323 consumers in their 20s and 30s read the scenario, identified the problem in each situation and assessed who was responsible. Consumers were aware of in-app payment problems due to problems with in-app payment readability, problems with app market responsibility, problems with responsibility of game companies, and problems of consumer responsibility. And different consumers had different levels of assessment on the problem of in-app payment. According to the research, consumers have high demand for improvement of the lack of readability in related laws, including strengthening the readability of the in-app payment indicator. In addition, the company confirmed the importance of cooperative efforts by consumers, businesses, and the government due to high consumer expectations for the role of the distribution company App Market other than the content developer game company.

• Journal of Convergence Society for SMB
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.21-26
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• 2015

As mobile contents grow up, In App Billing is brisk at applications including mobile contents. But some of users don't pay and use charged content for free to use cheating payment module or hacking through applications. Call this bypass payment. Applications, helping bypass, are Freedom, IAP Cracker, and DNS server suggested by the hacker named Borodin. In case of mobile game, Despite sell a lot of charged content but income is different revenue in sales log with real profits. Because of users using bypass payment application. Management plan to bypass payment are checking OrderID, encrypting public key and verifying receipt.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.55-66
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• 2021

The mobile application (APP) market is growing at an unprecedented speed. Amid such growth, the global platform providers are mandating exclusive in-app payments and charging 30% for platform commission fees. A serious tension has arisen between mobile global platform providers and local content providers. The present study attempts to analyze the domestic mobile game market and in-app payment commission fees. This study estimates the size of the domestic mobile game market and platform commission fees by directly using publicly available financial statements and footnote information of some representative listed mobile game firms. Also, the study analyzes the cost structures of the same sample firms and attempts to draw some implications on sustainable growths of the mobile game ecosystem. We estimated that, in 2019, the domestic mobile game market is around 4.9 trillion Won and the ensuing in-app payment commission fees market was 1.5 trillion Won. High market share firms display a proportional increase in in-app payment commission fees in relation to sales growth. This, in turn, makes the in-app payment commission fees a primary cost item far exceeding employee salaries and R&D expenses. During the same period, low market share firms generated a mere profit or experienced net loss. Analysis of the cost structure reveals that these firms are even more liable to higher in-app payment commission fee cost structure than high market share. Most constituents of the mobile game ecosystem are small business entrepreneurs. By employing a micro-level analysis, the study estimates that, in 2019, a representative median firm generates 530 million Won in sales. At the same time, it spends 190 million Won in employee salaries, 50 Won million in R&D and 190 million Won in in-app payment commission fees, respectively. In the absence of other cost items, these three cost items alone account for 73.8% of sales revenue. The results imply that a sustainable growth of the local mobile game market heavily depends upon the cost structure of such representative median firm, the in-app payment commission fees being the primary cost item of such firm.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.27-38
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• 2018

This paper is designed to propose the contents necessary for updating and developing future mobile RPG game developers through a usability evaluation of Users using In-App Payment Services at Lineage M. This paper conducted a usability assessment for quantitative assessment of users who use in-app payment services for mobile game 'Lineage M'. The tool for usability assessment was surveyed in a questionnaire designed based on 'The User Experience Honeycomb' defined by Peter Morville. These statistical results were then divided into lateral analyses. Through this, it is expected that game developers and planners will be able to find data to help develop new mobile RPG games.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.91-111
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• 2020

E-book markets are currently moving through a period of disequilibrium as new pricing structures (i.e., flat-fee subscriptions) are rapidly embraced by major vendors. On the basis of a novel dataset, we investigate how the availability of "all-you-can-read" pricing programs influences consumers' tariff choice and contract renewal behaviors. Consistent with the rational choice framework, the findings suggest that most e-book consumers significantly gain from subscription-based tariffs. Power readers prefer flat-fee subscriptions, and those that have economically benefited renew their subscription. However, we also find some other intriguing results. Among the three subscription designs examined, the 1-week plan affords consumers more economic benefits than do 1-day or 1-month programs. Finally, iOS users are more inclined to select subscription models than are Android users because of the absence of in-app purchase functionalities for the former. The unavailability of in-app purchase affects tariff choices and transaction patterns as it increases transaction costs.