I know its a bit a greyarea but I wonder what they define as "a speaker"? What type of fluency does that actually infer?

I ask because I noticed when travelling to Hong Kong (this surprised me initially, but in retrospect not so much), how much english is spoken in trans-asian communication. If you are a Korean biz traveller in Hong Kong you probably don't speak Chinese so you speak English. Now the english is really basic (like my spanish), enough to check into hotel and ask where the taxi stand is...sort of "travelers english".

I asked a Korean friend about this and he said yes there are actually companies that specifically offer courses in that kind of "traveler english" - it ignores many verb tenses and drops lots of articles and just focuses on minimal-viable language approach....so you can say "I need go store...which way?" - I realized that in my own way thats exactly the type of spanish I speak, minimally functional but serviceable