This morning, I shared with our community in Korea that we’ve made the difficult decision to shut down the Twitch business in Korea on February 27, 2024 KST. We understand that this is extremely disappointing news, and we want to explain why we made this decision and how we are planning to support those impacted.
Ultimately, the cost to operate Twitch in Korea is prohibitively expensive and we have spent significant effort working to reduce these costs so that we could find a way for the Twitch business to remain in Korea.
Couldn’t Koreans just VPN to another country?
No need. Asian countries are not blocked from using Twitch. It’s just Twitch won’t have local business in Korea now.
VPNs aren’t the solution to shitty laws, nor can you expect that to be a valid mass solution