The framing gets a pass because the majority of "explosive traffic" comes from foreign companies. Google and Netflix have no voice in the Korean lawmaking proce

The framing gets a pass because the majority of "explosive traffic" comes from foreign companies. Google and Netflix have no voice in the Korean lawmaking process. When they go to court, they fall right into the trap of the framing that local companies have already set up. South Korea is well known for having fast internet, but the internet is only fast within the small country. International connectivity has always been crappy, and getting crappier every year as telcos focus on legal avenues instead of actually laying enough undersea cables to meet the demand. In the past, most Koreans only visited Korean sites because of the language barrier; that's no longer true. But it's going to take a lot of time and money to remedy years of neglect in international connectivity. Especially SK Broadband, who IMO has been the most complacent in this department among the Big 3 telcos, precisely because of their huge domestic market share. Where is the money going to come from? Obviously not by cutting executive bonuses. SK Broadband seems to think that they can extort it out of Google and Netflix who, despite their global prominence, are relatively defenseless in Korean courts.