Four Republican members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee sent a letter on Aug. 6 to the chairman of Korea's Media and Communications Commission. It did more than object to a Korean law. It set a deadline: brief us on your enforcement plans by 10 a.m. Aug. 20, Washington time. For a standing committee of a foreign legislative body to summon a sovereign regulator to a schedule is not an ordinary event in seven decades of the alliance. Koreans are reading this as a domestic quarrel over free expression. That reading is not wrong, but it is only half the story — and the missing half is the one that should concern us most. The other half is written in the letter's own footnotes. The Judiciary Committee did not arrive at Korea by chance. Its letter situates the Network Act within an oversight campaign already more than a year old: two staff reports on the European Union's Digital Services Act (DSA), the second titled "Europe's Decade-Long Campaign to Censor the Global Internet"; subpoenas to major American platforms over foreign censorship; a July report accusing Seoul of discriminati