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South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT approved licenses for Eutelsat OneWeb and SpaceX Starlink on 2025, June 3 following a March 2025 amendment to the Radio Waves Act, opening the door to low-earth-orbit broadband with local ground terminals supplied by Intellian Technologies and a newly registered Starlink Korea LLC, disrupting incumbent telcos and tapping into a satellite communications market forecast at 3.5 billion by 2033.

South-Korea is Finally Letting the Satellites In

The land of technological miracles, K-pop deities, and ramen that’ll vaporize your taste buds, has finally decided, hey, maybe we should let space internet happen. And not just for kicks. No, this time it’s official.

The Ministry of Science and ICT (yes, it sounds like a Harry Potter department but with fewer…

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