Korea passes 1 million iPhones milestone

“Koreans were late to the smartphone party, but have been rapidly making up for the lost time,” Kim Tong-hyung reports for The Korea Times. “The market for these feature-rich, high-end phones opened up when the iPhone finally arrived on Korean shores last November, and now wireless carrier KT says it has sold more than 1 million of Apple’s do-it-all handset as of Thursday last week.”

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“The country is now looking to exploit its advancement in digital equipment and wireless technology to create a networked work environment that allows people to conduct tasks anywhere, anytime and through any device,” Tong-hyung reports. “The ‘smart work’ initiative, announced by the government in July, aims to have around 30 percent of public employees work from home or nearby “smart-work” centers by 2015 with smartphones, laptops and other mobile Internet devices, which is hoped to boost productivity and minimize carbon emissions.”

“‘The 1 million iPhones sold reflects that smartphones have now become a mass market product. Now, any Korean can use the iPhone with our free Wi-Fi and unlimited 3G data plans to get a taste of a ‘mobile wonderland,” said Pyo Hyun-myung, who heads KT’s wireless business,” Tong-hyung reports.

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