There is a competitor to Twitch that's specific to Korea called AfreecaTV (in my personal opinion it's objectively a much better platform than Twitch). I'm pretty ignorant about the details of the internal political landscape in Korea, but I wonder if Afreeca's ownership might have some ties to the Korean government that would encourage the Korean government to make plays that hinder Twitch's operations there in order to increase Afreeca's market share.
My understand is that twitch pulled out of korea because the lack of net neutrality lead to them being extorted by ISPs. They were being charged massive delivery fees and decided it wasnt worth it. I dont think afreeca is owned by an ISP so maybe they had the government negotiate a better rate or maybe the ISPs just did them a solid.
