Korea proposes merging ICT and broadcasting funding pools

The immediate effect would be a simpler funding structure for how South Korea routes spectrum-fee money into ICT and broadcasting programs. For the streaming and video ecosystem, the key signal is that regulators are looking to reduce overlap between two adjacent policy buckets rather than keep separate funding channels. That matters because the allocation mechanism itself can shape where sector support is directed. Watch whether the budget ministry advances a formal merger proposal and how the treatment of spectrum-fee funds is defined in the next draft.