Cheong Wa Dae denies discrimination against U.S. companies over network usage fees

SEOUL, April 28 (Yonhap) — Cheong Wa Dae on Tuesday denied a declare that U.S. firms had been being discriminated in opposition to in South Korea over community utilization charges after the U.S. Commerce Consultant (USTR) raised grievances over the problem.

The USTR earlier mentioned in a put up on X that South Korea is the one nation on the earth to impose community utilization charges on web site visitors transmission because it listed a sequence of “commerce limitations” that American exporters face.

“Claims of U.S. firms being discriminated in opposition to over community utilization charges and platform rules are opposite to the details,” a Cheong Wa Dae official mentioned, noting that no legal guidelines have been handed to implement community utilization charges.

The official mentioned Seoul stands by with its pledge to not discriminate in opposition to U.S. digital firms as outlined by a joint truth sheet of a summit between President Lee Jae Myung and U.S. President Donald Trump final November.

South Korean web service suppliers have argued for on-line content material suppliers, corresponding to Netflix and YouTube, to pay community utilization charges when creating massive volumes of site visitors.

yunhwanchae@yna.co.kr
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