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Why Is Korean Internet So Fast? 5 Reasons Behind the Speed

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Why is Korean internet so fast? It comes down to 5 reasons, and density matters most. Roughly half of South Korea’s 51 million people live in and around Seoul, most of them in high-rise apartment complexes, so one fiber line into one building can bring gigabit service to hundreds of homes at once.

Naver vs Kakao: Korea’s 2 Tech Giants and Which Apps to Get

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Naver started as a search portal in 1999. KakaoTalk started as a free chat app in 2010. Today the two companies run the maps, taxis, payments, webtoons and messages that shape daily life in Korea, and they’re the main reason Google plays a smaller role there than almost anywhere else.