American View On Korean Broadband Leadership 527
prostoalex writes "South Korea remains the world's undisputed broadband leader (in terms of penetration) with 25 broadband lines for every 100 people as of year-end 2004. But how did it come to that? Joel Strauch moved there to teach English and in his letter to PC World he portrays the everyday life in broadband heaven as well as names the reasons for Korean broadband dominance: 'An ambitious, nearly $11 billion program, it appears to be working. Studies have shown that over a quarter of Koreans have broadband and that anyone who wants it can sign up--with some ISPs charging as little as $19 a month for DSL. I pay $30 myself, for a 1.5-megabits-per-second (mbps) connection--twice the speed of my $50-a-month service back home in the United States.'"
Yay for broadband! (Score:5, Funny)
Envy (Score:2, Funny)
Why so much broadband? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:appealing for americans... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yay for broadband! (Score:4, Funny)
Oh Lord, not Cyworld! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Yay for broadband! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Leadership? (Score:1, Funny)
I, for one, can imagine . . . (Score:3, Funny)
Now, could you imagine what would happen if the US had a president that bet 100 billion on the internet?
Yeah, he would would have been lobbied out of office by the MPAA.