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Twitch Will Shut Down Its Streaming Platform in South Korea (blog.twitch.tv)
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[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I also didn’t know that South Korea charges extra for foreign content providers which is also pretty aggressive.

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 7 points 11 months ago

Yeah, and it all started from a lawsuit between SK Telecom and Netflix because in 2020 people watching Squid Games in Korea used an unprecedented amount of bandwidth. Reuters article

Most telecom providers make deals with the big platforms regarding payment, but I guess S. Korea really wants Afreeca to be the only player in the streaming space. It could also be chaebol shenanigans.