On November 21, KT Corp announced that they will start selling Apple's iPad from next week in Korea. KT, the only carrier of the iPhone in Korea, already has received more than 40,000 pre-orders and they will introduce all six models of Apple's tablet PC from November 30.

It will be an interesting competition between Samsung's Galaxy Tab and Apple's iPad. SK Telecom, the nation's biggest mobile carrier, already introduced the Galaxy Tab on November 13. The Galaxy Tab was released to the global market last month and more than 600,000 Galaxy Tab units have been sold.

Samsung Galaxy Tab has two cameras, ability to view Flash web pages as well as having a crisp and ultra fast touch screen. It runs the Android 2.2 platform, 30 megapixel camera, GPA and Bluetooth 3.0. This compact, paperback-book size, Galaxy Tab cost KRW 995,000.

iPad has basically some of the same features. A bit bigger than the Galaxy Tab, it is 9.7-inch with 16-gigabyte storage and cellular connectivity will be priced at KRW 784,000 in Korea.