hat, in its turn, has led people to seek what the NHK article calls „cyber-asylum“ — online safety through the use of foreign mobile messaging services, which aren‘t spied on so easily by the South Korean authorities. According to the NHK article:

„Many users have switched [from the hugely-popular home-grown product KakaoTalk] to a German chat app called Telegram. It had 50,000 users in early September. Now 2 million people have signed up.“