On US election day in 2008, Seung Bak and his business partner went to a Korean broadcaster’s outpost in Los Angeles with $50,000 of their savings, asking to license Korean television dramas to stream online. They were met with quizzical stares. Who outside the Korean diaspora would watch Korean shows, much less pay for them? Would American TV viewers all of a sudden start reading subtitles? And what the heck even is streaming? It would be several more years before Netflix’s own streaming business took off in earnest and “binge-watching” became a couch sport. It was well before — it is hard to…