[IP] more on Why the future is in South Korea
Begin forwarded message:
From: Udhay Shankar N <udhay@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: June 11, 2006 12:13:05 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] Why the future is in South Korea
At 01:00 AM 6/11/2006, David Farber wrote:
Fast-forward 11 years: Korea is now the most connected and Net-
addicted country on Earth. There are a few American companies who
have benefited from the South Korean broadband boom: Blizzard, for
example, makes a popular online game called Starcraft which is so
widely played in South Korea that two TV channels broadcast Starcraft
matches between professional players.
But the most popular services are homegrown.
This might also have something to do with the fact that (when I was
in Seoul last) accessing the outside internet, while adequately fast,
is nowhere near the multi-megabit speeds you can get from servers
located in Korea. Trying to access a streaming multimedia service
located outside Korea (yes, I tried) was not a very responsive
experience.
Udhay
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