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Your Meta account profile region has to be in the U.S., and they do Geo IP and SMS verification.

The gambling industry has funneled a ton of cash into academic researchers producing papers that gave credence to the idea of "addictive personality," which in turn was massaged by PR experts into the notion that some people are just born addicts, and the gambling industry can't help it if they become addicted to gambling too. "Addictive personality" itself is on very shaky grounds statistically, and the derived PR messaging certainly is false. The gambling industry is likely more culpable in this mess than even a typical, generally well-informed person might be aware.

In case of Kakao Taxi vs Uber, it was Uber's unwillingness to work with existing taxi operators that killed any chance Uber had in the Korean market. Kakao (at least until they became dominant) acted more like an agent that sends additional customers to existing independent taxi drivers while Uber kept trying to find legal loopholes to bypass the taxi licensing system. S Korea is a civil law country, and its courts have no patience for actors whose entire legal strategy is to subvert the intent of the laws, and that was the end for Uber there.

>But in recent years, nearly every modern phone shipped today has an eSIM

How many phones other than iPhone, Pixel, and (very recent) Galaxy S/Z have eSIM? There aren't that many cellular IoT boards that support swappable eSIM either (some boards say eSIM, but what they mean is that the IoT vendor's SIM is soldered onto the board - thus "embedded SIM"- not that you're allowed to load eSIM of your choice).

The government that was in power from 2017 to 2022 put a moratorium on new reactor construction there and promised a full phase-out, and although the newly-elected government promised to reverse this, it likely has done some damage to S. Korea's civilian nuclear capabilities.

I often hear US investors have a higher risk appetite, but why is that the case? I imagine it can't be just cultural differences.

That's true, but Canada has suburban sprawl just like the U.S. where, in most cities, home internet is just as expensive if not more so. Think how much less wire, amplification/splitter/switching/etc. equipment, and drilling would be required to install new home internet infrastructure to serve the same number of people if the Greater Toronto Area was as dense as the (4x denser) Stockholm metro area. The one of the obstacles (in addition to monopolies and regulatory capture) may be that the built-up area near the U.S. border still aren't dense enough to have infrastructure efficiency comparable to European countries with cheaper and faster home internet like Sweden, Finland, France, etc.