[seanmcdirmid]

It is always hard to tell why they do things. The pretext is...retaliation, but they look at all the other wins, and protectionism has a lot to do with it. Heck, Korean dramas were getting way too popular for local media comfort before the THAAD cut backs.

[XorNot]

S. Korea is also a democracy. The regime is highly suspicious of any foreign culture which might make people more interested in control of their own government.