Digital Divide: Korea vs the Rest of the World

Digital Divide: Korea vs the Rest of the World. 'Telecosm' author George Gilder addresses the SBS 'Seoul Digital Forum'. [snip, snip] "Koreans will kill TV!" he said, pointing to the "massive dinosaurs" of influential American TV networks proactively stifling U.S. broadband to levels that cannot support full motion video in order to hold their market share. ¶ Gilder said that widely distributed broadband network would kill the TV advertising model, since it is based on capturing reluctant "eyeballs." ¶ "It is totally based on wasting the customer's time, and it will die this year," he said. [snip] [OhmyNews]