Internet connection speed in South Korea, 2014

In the latest figures from Akamai Technologies , leading cloud computing services and content delivery network (CDN) provider, the average peak internet connection speed in South Korea has lagged behind Hong Kong.
Hong Kong has the fastest Internet broadband in the world at 73.9 Mbps and South Korea has at 72.1 Mbps

There is a difference between the average Internet connection speed and average peak Internet connection speed.
The average peak internet connection speed is averaged over maximum speed of the each user connected to the Internet.

South Korea is still head and shoulders above other countries, with an average Internet connection speed of 24.6 Mbps in Q2.  Hong Kong was second, with 15.7 Mbps, followed by Switzerland and Japan, which tied with 14.9 Mbps, Akamai said.

Among the top 10 countries, South Korea had the highest year-over-year growth in data speeds, up 84% from Q2 2013, Akamai reported.

Also Korea took top spot in the average mobile connection speed at 15.2 Mbps which is 16 times faster than Vietnam (0.9Mbps), country with slowest mobile connection speed in Asia.