Twitch plans to shut down in South Korea on February 27, 2024

Games livestreaming platform Twitch is shutting down its business operations in South Korea February 27, 2024.

According to a blog post from CEO Dan Clancy, South Korea was “prohibitively expensive” to operate despite working to reduce costs. Twitch experimented with a peer-to-peer model for source quality and capping quality at 720p.