We all enjoy fast internet, right? We expect that when we google something, our 10 million search results will pop up in the blink of an eye. For some, this is expected. Personally, I have friends in other countries who have been extremely surprised at how 'amazing' our internet is in the US. Some of them just have 50kb/s download speeds (and they think that is fast), while others even have a maximum amount that they are allowed to download per month. However, according to a recent CNN article, net speeds in the United States are only about 1/4 of the speed of those in South Korea. Why is this? Although there are a number of reasons why internet is both faster and cheaper in South Korea, as well as some other countries, Robert Faris, a research director at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, stated:
We probably won't ever be South Korea. The whole political and social climate is so different, the geography is different, the history is so different. It's all pretty different.
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