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Internet video service Netflix has drastically increased its subscription fee. Even though the Korean content squid game was a global hit, the court's ruling to pay internet network usage fees was not followed, so criticism was high, but my eyes sting even more.
Reporter Jeon Yeon-nam.
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Netflix's standard plan, which can be used by two people at the same time, from 12,000 won to 13,500 won per month, and the premium for four people at the same time, from 14,500 won to 17,000 won. They announced an increase of 12.5% and 17.2%, respectively.
This rate plan is applied from new subscribers, and according to the terms and conditions, existing subscribers will also be charged an increased rate after one month.
Netflix, which has recently made a huge profit from the global success of the squid game, expressed the impression that it is a dimension to continuously produce and invest in Korean content.
However, there is also an analysis that, following the court's first trial ruling that telecommunication companies must pay network usage fees, the National Assembly is pushing for the passage of a bill to make the network usage fee mandatory.
Domestic companies such as Naver and Kakao pay tens of billions of won in network usage fees every year, and Netflix caused huge traffic but did not pay a single penny, causing a free-riding controversy.
[Dean Garfield / Vice President of Netflix Policy: It is not true that Netflix pays network usage fees to countries other than Korea.
We believe that we should collaborate with both Korean and overseas Internet operators on exactly equal terms.]
Netflix insisted that network usage fees and increase in usage fees are separate matters.