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					<description><![CDATA[(Reuters) &#8211; India has approved popular mobile game Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) to be relaunched for a trial period after]]></description>
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<p><strong> (Reuters) &#8211; </strong>India has approved popular mobile game Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) to be relaunched for a trial period after a 10-month ban, South Korean game developer Krafton said on Friday.</p>



<p>South Korea&#8217;s foreign affairs and culture ministries held meetings with their Indian counterparts to help lift the ban, a Krafton Inc (259960.KS) representative said.</p>



<p>The Indian government blocked BGMI, the flagship game made by Krafton last July, citing concerns about its data-sharing and mining in China.</p>



<p>Krafton is backed by China&#8217;s Tencent (0700.HK) which owns around a 13.5% stake.</p>



<p>The three-month trial approval of the game was agreed after it complied with issues of server locations and data security, Indian deputy minister for Information Technology, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, said in a tweet.</p>



<p>Daishin Securities analyst Jeeeun Lee said the spillover from political spats with China to Krafton will be limited.</p>



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<p>&#8220;It will be tough for India to impose an outright ban on companies affiliated with China over political issues when they operate through a local corporation that hire Indian workers like Krafton for instance,&#8221; she said.</p>



<p>Shares of Krafton rose 1.45% compared to the wider KOSPI index&#8217;s 0.89% rise when the market closed on Friday.</p>



<p>At the time of its removal from Alphabet Inc&#8217;s (GOOGL.O) Google Play Store and Apple Inc&#8217;s (AAPL.O) App Store, BGMI had more than 100 million users in India.</p>



<p>A Facebook page for the title says the game will be available for download soon.</p>



<p>The government will keep a close watch on other issues of user harm and addiction in the trial period before making a final decision, Chandrasekhar added.</p>



<p>New Delhi banned another Krafton title, PlayerUnknown&#8217;s Battlegrounds (PUBG), in 2020, following which the company launched BGMI.</p>



<p>The ban on PUBG was part of a larger ban on more than 300 Chinese apps, including short-video platform TikTok, after the government ramped up its scrutiny of Chinese businesses in the wake of a 2020 clash between the neighbours.</p>



<p>The government also intensified the scrutiny of investments by Chinese firms in Indian companies.</p>
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