No, I am not being dense. From your continued lack of citations I am starting to assume there is no law stopping the RoK from enriching uranium (though I have been trying to find one). Uranium enrichment facilities are expensive. If you have a partner nation who is willing to sell you the enriched uranium that just makes sense. Again, it being the property of another nation, they have the right to judge who should have access it it and what they might do with it. If RoK wanted to spend a percentage of their GDP on enrichment facilities they could. They don't have an urgent reason to. Further they don't have any deposits of any uranium to begin with so they would still need to partner with another nation anyways, so I ask you - Why would RoK want their own enrichment facilities?

> No, I am not being dense.

Yes you are. An easy tell is "citation needed".

> there is no law

Another tell.

> If RoK wanted to spend a percentage of their GDP on enrichment facilities they could

And they have in the past. Guess who shut that down?

> They don't have an urgent reason to.

South korea is surrounded by 3 nuclear powers ( north korea, china, russia ) and militarily occupied by another nuclear power and yet, they have no urgent reason to? Good one.

> Why would RoK want their own enrichment facilities?

This is just absurd. Your questions answer themselves. And it's obvious you already know the answers but just are trying to distract.

You keep googling and I'll look for the citations. Okay buddy?