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IT Korea Analysis
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  • 승인 2007.05.14 14:22
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The 52nd Information and Communication Day ceremony was held on April 23, 2007 at the 15th floor of the MIC building with ministers and vice ministers along with 500 relating persons. On this day, those who contributed to the development of the information and communication industry were presented with awards and medals of honor.

Also, in celebration of Information and Communication Day, the Ministry issued special stamps from the year 2007 world Stamp Design Contribution Contest winning piece.

The day's origin traces back to 41 years ago when the post office was first established in 1884 to introduce the postage system. This day used to be called Postage Day, but eventually changed to Information and Communication Day in 1994 when the ministry was newly established.

The Minister of the MIC Rho Jun-hyong stated at the ceremony that: "Postage and communication was our first step to modernization and since then, we, the information and communications undying effort, brought Korean IT to be the entire country's life infrastructure and the foundation stone to support the economy of a country."

Rho further added: "The unification of broadcast and communication organizations can no longer be a put off subject for the development of both broadcast and information and communication industry, and it should be marked as a national homework. The MIC will do anything it takes to bring the unification between two organizations and the IPTV service in the near future," Minister Rho asserted in closing.

In 1994, the movement of splitting the Information Technology Department off of the postage or communication Ministry was something that Korea tried for the first time.

Ever since the Ministry for IT was established, it served its role by accelerating information infrastructure and developing IT. Soon enough innovated services like Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and high-speed internet services were introduced to the world and encouraged the global interest on IT industry.

At the current point, 40 countries including China and Russia are bench marking the MIC under the government organization.

Information technology is a driving force to lead Korea as an exporting and pioneering country. The development of Korean IT industry is not only being the role model for developing countries, it is also the spotlight of developed countries. The IT industry is the key to our countries' success and one of the factors that can move up the national income to 30,000 dollar per capita in a short time.

The Information Superhighway establishment business is the one that has the most important role in the Korean IT industry.

The business started in 1995 and was completed in 144 places throughout the states by the year 2000. High-speed internet subscribers were only 10,000 back in 1998. As of January this year, the number of users, however, rose up to 14,102,888. This is roughly 88% of the entire population. Especially, high-speed internet users in the Seoul area reached 3,499,201, almost 100% of the population.

With the wide usage of the Internet, Korea utilized a DMB service in 2005 so that people can use medical services through portable devices like mobile phones or portable DMB while on the move.

Just last year, WIBRO and HSDPA were supplied throughout the provinces for the Internet to be accessed on mobile phones. WIBRO was introduced in America, and made Korea IT proud. Now it is being introduced in Europe, South America, Japan, and China. Korea is also strong in mobile content and security products.

Those areas are helping Korea to take the next step in the global market.

The Korean IT industry is rapidly developing even at this second. The world's highest quality high-speed internet infrastructure is being upgraded to Fiber to the Home (FTTH), and the mobile communication market is already winning the 3G War equipped with HSDPA and EUDO Revision A.

KT is spurring on providing 100 mbps FTTH Services to residential areas, which provides high quality multimedia services within the range of 20 km. If you connect an optical fiber cable to cable, the speed even maximizes to the gigabite level.

In the mobile communication market, KTF launched 3G WCDMA HSDPA last March joined by SK in May. Video chat and USIM contents are expected to bring big changes to the citizens' lifestyles. Corporations are expecting the number of 3G subscribers to grow in time and by the year 2011 most 2G users will be using 3G technology.

The corporations' effort to promote our advanced technology to the global market will continue on as the next objective. LG Telecom is also promoting EVDO Revision A Service as a hidden card in June. LG will join the competition and shape its own way to contribute to the IT industry.

Samsung and LG Electronics' competition in the global mobile telecom market is on fire. They both are placed in third and fifth place at the current point and now they are striving for first place.

Such eagerness earned them a good starting evaluation for the first quarter this year, giving the spotlight and a great expectation of the world to them. Samsung Electronics in particular is on top of the WiMAX market which happened to be the entire global market's highest interest, and is in negotiations to have an export relationship with 30 countries all over the world. If Samsung signs the contract with Sprint in America by the end of this year like they plan, an incredible amount of profit is expected.

The next subject is patents. Korea utilized CDMA for the first time in the world, yet had to pay large royalties to Qualcomm due to patent issues. In order to prevent another loss and mistakes due to a lack of information, corporate investment on future is speeding up.

Samsung Electronics covers 25% or more of original technology patents, and LG electronics succeeded in testing the 3G LTE technology for the first time in the world. SK Telecom is targeting the Chinese market and succeeded to insure the share of China Unicom. The company is also working to utilize TD-SCDMA, the Chinese monopoly 3G technology.

In despite of all the good scores on a progress report however, homework for the bright future is still left for Korea IT.

Disagreements on IPTV and the unification of broadcasting and communication is preventing our technology from spreading its wings.

Korea has competitive technology, yet they haven't been able to utilize the global market due to those factors. Minister Rho Joon-hyong reasserted at the ceremony that: "The unification should be put on an alert and it will be our priority to bring the unification closer."


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