This book investigates the contextual factors that led to Korean society becoming 'broadband heaven' -- the most wired nation in the world -- by scrutinizing the historical contexts surrounding the Korean Information Infrastructure (KII) project (1995--2005), which aimed to establish a nationwide high-speed backbone network, as well as its later evolution, which involved redesigning the public infrastructure. The book details the hidden mechanisms and the real elements of building the 'broadband heaven': the global constraints conditioning its telecom policies, the dense state--capital linkages, and the bureaucratic desire for social control. It draws on the state-in-society approach to analyze the deformations caused by the symbiosis between the state and big business in implementing the rosy vision of the broadband network.