[Korea.net News, Nation, July 16 2007] Koreans receive average 0.54 mobile spam messages a day: survey

The number of unsolicited e-mail advertisements, or spam, that Koreans received on their mobile phones during the first half of this year increased from the second half of 2006 despite government crackdown efforts, a government survey showed Monday (July 16).

The survey, conducted by the Ministry of Information and Communication on May 28-31, found that mobile phone users received an average of 0.54 such text messages a day.