3 Posts about 'Korea'
The LG Mobile World Cup :: 2008/11/02 14:51
LG Electronics launched the LG Mobile World Cup, giving participants a chance to show off the speed and accuracy of their text messaging skills. This event began in Seoul, Korea on October 27 and will be in Brazil in late this year. In addition, this event will be expanded to 15 more countries and a winner of the world will be picked out next year.
According to market research company Gartner, text messaging is expanding at an explosive rate. This year, people will send an estimated 2.5 trillion text messages and this number is expected to surpass 5.6 trillion by 2012. For perspective, every people will send about 6.7 billion text messages per day this year.
As the popularity of text messaging has risen, phone manufacturers are trying to make mobile handsets which are friendly for sending text messages. (Recently, another Korean handset provider, Pantech made a contract with AT&T in order to provide "World's Thinnest Qwerty Keyboard" Handsets.) As I mentioned on the post, "SMS Usage Patterns of Korean People", over 40% text messages are sent using usual computer with QWERTY keyboard. It means usual people are familiar with QWERTY keypad and, if handsets provide a similar keypad, text messaging would be expanded more. (Also, refer to the below post, "An Innovative Mobile Keypad!!!")
According to market research company Gartner, text messaging is expanding at an explosive rate. This year, people will send an estimated 2.5 trillion text messages and this number is expected to surpass 5.6 trillion by 2012. For perspective, every people will send about 6.7 billion text messages per day this year.
As the popularity of text messaging has risen, phone manufacturers are trying to make mobile handsets which are friendly for sending text messages. (Recently, another Korean handset provider, Pantech made a contract with AT&T in order to provide "World's Thinnest Qwerty Keyboard" Handsets.) As I mentioned on the post, "SMS Usage Patterns of Korean People", over 40% text messages are sent using usual computer with QWERTY keyboard. It means usual people are familiar with QWERTY keypad and, if handsets provide a similar keypad, text messaging would be expanded more. (Also, refer to the below post, "An Innovative Mobile Keypad!!!")
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[Statistics] Mobile Market Size of South Korea in 2008 :: 2008/06/16 13:44
[Statistics : Mobile Market Size of South Korea (June, 2008)]
| CDMA | WCDMA | Total | Market Share | |
| SKT | 17,268,965 | 5,332,384 | 22,601,349 | 50.52% |
| KTF | 8,290,623 | 5,789,448 | 14,080,071 | 31.47% |
| LGT | 8,056,320 | - | 8,056,320 | 18.01% |
| Total | 33,615,908 | 11,121,832 | 44,737,740 | 100.00% |
- Population of South Korea : 47,925,000
- Penetration Rate of Mobile Service : 93%
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TV Commecials for Video Call :: 2007/10/31 00:14
Nowaday, Korean operators are focusing on Video call which is one of 3G service. Aditionally, SK Telecom and KTF are pouring much money into TV commecials for video call. Let me introduce the TV commecials of SK Telecom and KTF. Even if they are made for Korean, it is easy for you to understand the meaning of commecials.
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