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Broadband Is The Secret To South Korea's Success
An anonymous reader writes "What makes South Korea so special in the world of high-speed Internet access? How can the U.S. and other countries learn from it? What separates South Korea from the rest is a clear agenda and execution process by the government. They wanted to be THE broadband capital of the world so bad, they never swayed from that goal. After the 1997 Asian financial crisis, South Korea was desperate for a savior. The government realized technology was going to restore the country's economic health so the entire country unified to push broadband penetration rates to the extreme."
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I'm glad that South Korea has an improved tech-based economy. They are United States Allies and have become another big friendly Asian trading partner. Maybe a personal freedom focused South Korea and Japan will offset China. If only the two (Koreans and Japanese) would get along...
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I submitted this story last night, and it didn't get posted.
North Korea will extract a high price from South Korea and others who helped stage the premeditated allurement, abduction and terrorism of 400 innocent North Korean citizens
1. Have a crazy dictator north of you that threatens to blow up everyone once a week. Stops and starts nuclear 'research' programs on a whim, and kidnaps people from nearby countries to make movies and pron for him.
2. Install high speed bandwidth.
3. Profit!!!
Q. What is Calvin's monster snowman called? A. The Torment Of Existence Weighed Against The Horror of Non Being
The [South Korean] government also spent $24 billion building a national high-speed backbone network linking government facilities and public institutions.
The article makes it sound like the US is behind. But lets not forget that there was national high-speed network connecting the vast majority of all the US government facilities and public institutions way before there was any Internet in South Korea and that the US government spent orders of magnitudes more money funding ARPA and NSF going back to the late 1960's.
Don't have any answers to the tough questions, do you? Just mod them away and continue to advocate blah blah blah. Fascists, the lot of you! Facists, I say!!!
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