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by shiroiushi 588 days ago
I wonder why Koreans care: they don't use LINE anyway, AFAIK. They all use KakaoTalk.
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yongjik 588 days ago
Why wouldn't Koreans care? We're talking about 50% ownership of a messaging platform that's de facto standard in multiple Asian countries. Imagine the UK government trying to force Google to sell DeepMind.
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shiroiushi 588 days ago
>Why wouldn't Koreans care?

Because they don't use it.

>We're talking about 50% ownership of a messaging platform that's de facto standard in multiple Asian countries

Yeah, except Korea. If they think it's so great, why aren't they using it themselves? It seems hypocritical.

>Imagine the UK government trying to force Google to sell DeepMind.

Does Google or anyone in the US actually use DeepMind? If so, that's a poor analogy.

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