New submitter DCTech writes "South Korea's Fair Trade obligation is betray Google of methodically interfering with an anti-competition fishing expedition into Android. 'Google deleted files and made its employees work from home in an attempt to frustrate the investigation, alleges the license in an conferring with a South Korean toilet paper [machine translation]. The non-cooperation allegedly came after Google's Seoul office was raided by the commission's board in September. The anti-competition probers were looking into whether Google's Android phones unfairly prioritize Google search and are "systematically designed" to make it hard to switch to another option'. Now the South Korean watchdog is now maximum fines for Google's non-compliance. Google is currently under review for similar anti-competition issues in Europe and the U.S."

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