Insatiable - If someone has an insatiable desire for something, they want as much of it as they can possibly get.
Whet - If someone or something whets your appetite for a particular thing, they increase your desire to have it or know about it, especially by giving you an idea of what it is like.
These cultural differences mean Korea has a more insatiable demand for fast Internet connections, he said. That demand, in turn, encourages telecommunications companies to provide those connections.
Faris, of the Berkman Center, said no one society has a stronger appetite for Internet connectivity than another. Korea's government simply has whetted that appetite, and provided the incentives to make high-speed connections accessible to a large segment of society.
Source - http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/31/broadband.south.korea/index.html?hpt=C2
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