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American View On Korean Broadband Leadership
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.'"
Not talking about lines per head here, they sure have an impressive count; but i've got 20Mb down, 1.5M up (yes, 20Mb down, it's not a typo, it's ADSL2+) for 30 a month. Now, that's what I call cheap.
Oh, and free, unlimited national calls included.
8Mb goes for 15.
In my opinion, Scientology is a cult you should avoid.
Because the entire country's resources aren't concentrated on ONE of the fifty states, you stupid fuck.
English is the de-facto standard language of the internet and technology. An ISP without english speaking employees has no business connecting to the internet. It's not like learning passable english is hard. I should know, I did it by the time I was 12 (as did the vast majority of all the other students).
Every once in a blue moon taxes are returned to their rightful owners... the taxpayers. Just because it rarely happens doesn't mean it's impossible.
And I'm happy where I live too. Did I say you weren't happy where you live? What does that have to do with anything?
Incidentally the internet came into being as a byproduct of the war machine. But you probably knew that.
That data from the CIA book is out of date.
Funny that the data on the site you linked to only goes up to 1990. (Actually up to 1992, but the data on the graph is a five year moving average so the graph goes up to 1.14 in 1990).
Don't you hate meta-sigs?