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Korean internet is still extremely fast. It hasn't decreased in price sadly though.

• metadat 2y ago
  Gigabit links to the home were cheap in South Korea 20 years ago, something like $50USD/month, IIRC. The population is so dense, it was comparatively quick and easy to put in the infrastructure. Some of the fastest pirate FTP sites in the world were .kr at the time, it was crazy seeing 125MB/sec inter-site transfers back then. The ops must've set the machines up with a /dev/shm ramdisk or similar for uploads. There were no SSDs those days, so no way to even write at 125MB/sec, unless you had an unreasonably large Raid-0 array of WD Raptor HDDs, also possible.
• petre 2y ago
  How can prices decerease when every provider is a chaebol in bed with the government?
  • AlchemistCamp 2y ago
    The government could make upgrading the infrastructure and lowering prices a priority.