A survey conducted by Open Network, a non-governmental organization, found that four out of 10 South Koreans do not support the mandatory network usage fee legislation that the National Assembly is mulling. Several National Assembly members last year proposed an amendment to the Telecommunications Business Act to detail content providers’ obligations to pay for using Korean networks to deliver their content to local users. The network fee issue stems from the 2016 revision of the Interconnection Standards for Telecommunication Facilities law, which required the country’s three major internet service providers (ISPs) — SK Broadband, KT and LG U+ — to