I'm from south korea, and using KT telecom now.
for exemple, hk server traceroute:
# upper part deleted for privicy
5 4 ms 2 ms 2 ms 112.174.59.117
6 12 ms 2 ms 1 ms 112.174.48.150
7 9 ms 10 ms 10 ms 112.174.85.98
8 127 ms 127 ms 127 ms 112.174.87.14
9 136 ms 127 ms 128 ms 10ge4-9.core1.pao1.he.net [66.220.12.29]
10 136 ms 141 ms 136 ms 100ge7-1.core1.lax2.he.net [184.105.81.238]
11 240 ms 233 ms 238 ms 100ge13-1.core1.tyo1.he.net [184.105.65.10]
12 275 ms 284 ms 276 ms 100ge6-1.core1.hkg1.he.net [184.105.64.129]
13 338 ms 337 ms 338 ms tserv2.hkg1.he.net [216.218.221.6]
in this, my packet first cross the Pacific once to usa,(CA) and then visit LA datacenter, come back over the pacific to tyoko, then goes to Hong Kong. and somehow it spent about 50ms in it.
Just why?
Possibly because of lacking of mutual perring points.