On mobile phone usage in Korea

Futurize Korea presents an interesting report by JoongAng Ilbo on the saturation of the mobile phone market. The blog also mentions two other valuable sources: 1) a study on how teenagers in five countries (incl. Korea) used mobile communication and 2) SK Telecom's customer statistics. Read the blog post here.

Yvette Wohn to discuss the Korean news & social site Ewhaian.com

From Yvette:

In 2001, three seniors at Ewha Women’s University launched a social networking site for students of their school. (Ewha is one of Korea’s top universities and the largest women’s univ. in the world) With campus media subsidized and screened, this online portal took off not only as a networking site but also as an independent news and information portal. With 50,000 active user accounts (mostly current students) and an average of 8,000 concurrent users, the site is a forum for synchronous and asynchronous communication. [Read more.]

[Via Berkman Blog - thanks for the hint, Turo.]

Headlines from blogs and news from the last 30 days

Futurize Korea:

• Korean mobile television searches for profitability
• Korea unveils plans for Robot Land theme parks
• Nintendo finds no rivals in Korea
• Systems track sex offenders and taxi cabs
• MySpace calls it quits in Korea (also reported by Seoul Digital City and KoreaCrunch)
• Korean online marketing initiatives
• ITU ranks Korea 6th in broadband penetration (also reported by Digital Chosun)
• Korean virtual worlds developer raises VC funding

Biz/tech section of Digital Chosun Ilbo:

• IPTV Postal Service Available from Next Year
• LG, Intel to Collaborate on Pocket Phone-Computers
• Robot Technology Makes Surgery Easier
• Korean Digital TVs at No.1 in U.S. Market
• Newspaper Websites Attract Growing Audience

Web 2.0 Asia: Now There's a Cellphone that Detects Your Breath

Korea's Information Society: Revenue Problems for Korea's DMB Industry

Seoul Digital City:

• S. Korea to Spend $24M for 1 GBPS Internet by 2012 (also discussed in Korea's Information Society blog post)
• Innovations for the Impatient (a short note on a service button in a Seoul café)