Thousands of USFK Personnel Will No Longer Receive Cell Phone Subsidies
USFK personnel looking to get a phone through a Korean telecom company will no longer receive the same subsidies that Korean consumers receive unless they remain in country at least two years:
The South Korean government has ruled that cellphone subsidies given to thousands of U.S. servicemembers stationed there on short tours were illegal, officials said Tuesday.
The Korean Communications Commission fined LG U Plus 186 million won (about $161,000) for violating the country’s Mobile Distribution Law, which bars handset subsidies for customers committed to anything less than a 24-month contract.
Thousands of U.S. servicemembers in South Korea are stationed there on one-year tours — particularly at bases north of Seoul where 2nd Infantry Division soldiers often serve unaccompanied.
LG U Plus counts about 7,200 U.S. Forces Korea servicemembers, civilians and others as subscribers, according to a KCC official who spoke with Stars and Stripes on Tuesday. [Stars & Stripes]
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Let me get this straight: It’s illegal — actually against the LAW — in Korea to give a discount to a one-year cellphone subscriber?
@ #1,
DuuuuuH, of course it is ❗ I wonder who in the USA knew/intentionally overlooked/turned their backs to this ❓ English teachers know it’s illegal so how couldn’t corrupt USA military officials ❓ They knew it was illegal but didn’t care because servicethemselfmembers need subsidies of any and all kinds as they’re socialists in their back yard but nobody elses ❗ Both the USA military and S. Korean businesses are corrupt in this case in S. Korea ❗
“DuuuuuH”
Finally Tbone said something that came naturally and wasn’t cut and pasted.