[kmeisthax]

Hell Joseon strikes again.

For context, the legal situation of network usage in South Korea is something akin to Ajit Pai's wet dream. Network operators are legally empowered to charge troll tolls on both ends of any connection they want. Infrastructure costs are to be borne by literally anyone BUT the network operators.

To compound this, South Korea is economically an authoritarian hellscape. Large megacorporations[0] own everything and the government is just a clearinghouse and mediator for their interests. Corruption is so rampant that even administrations run by ardent anti-corruption activists wind up being toppled by rampant and widespread corruption.

I guarantee you that not one SK Telecom executive will spend time behind bars for this blatantly illegal conduct. Anyone with the power to put people behind bars in South Korea will be unmade if they touch a chaebol.

[0] These are specifically called chaebols and the group includes LG, Hyundai, Samsung, Lotte, and a few others. Japan used to have something similar, but they ate their rich... and then brutally invaded and colonized half of East Asia.

[pezezin]

> [0] These are specifically called chaebols and the group includes LG, Hyundai, Samsung, Lotte, and a few others. Japan used to have something similar, but they ate their rich... and then brutally invaded and colonized half of East Asia.

More like the Allied occupation forced them to dissolve the zaibatsu. They later reformed as the keiretsu, and while still immensely powerful, are nowhere the level of the old zaibatsu or the Korean chaebol.

[ken47]

> I guarantee you that not one SK Telecom executive will spend time behind bars for this blatantly illegal conduct.

I mean, you're assuming that an SK Telecom executive did something illegal. I don't think anyone here is a supporter of corruption, but you're making a huge, completely unjustified leap to say that an SK executive was involved.