Tomi Ahonen’s book “Digital Korea” discusses digital convergence in South Korea. Here are some excerpted statistics
- Over 50% of South Koreans have migrated their cell-phone account to 3G
- South Korean youth replace cell phones every 11 months
- 99% of phones sold in South Korea in 2005 were camera phones
- 40% of South Korean youth send SMS text messages in class
- 37% of South Koreans download cell-phone games
· 15% of South Koreans play video games on their cell phones every day
- Over 30% of South Korean students send 100 text messages a day
- 20% of South Korean cell-phone owners use Internet search on their cell phones
- 30% of South Koreans upload pictures from camera phones to social-networking sites
- 42% of South Korean cell-phone owners send picture messages
- Average amount of daily consumption of DMB digital TV on cell phones in South Korea is 129 minutes per day
- 43% of South Koreans use cell-phone-based Internet
- 20% of South Korean DMB cell-phone owners watch digital TV in the car
- 63% of South Korean cell-phone owners use mobile payment
- 25% of all VISA cards in South Korea are provided via cell phone
- 45% of South Koreans buy MP3 files to phones
- 97% of South Koreans buy ring tones
- 45% of all music sold in South Korea is sold to cell phones
- 26% of South Koreans listened to MP3 songs on their cell phones in 2005
Source: CNN.com/Asia
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Hi Sidhartha and readers of Wireless Dunya
Thank you for mentioning my book. Yes, those statistics have been taken from the book, but I’d say the actual cases in the text of the chapters of this brand-new book are even more interesting, from the intelligent home to the “next internet is the car” (as the mobile internet is already reality in Korea) to a robot into every home within ten years, the book is a mind trip into the future, but that future already exists in South Korea today.
The book is receiving incredibly warm feedback already, the British newspaper Guardian for example suggested that the new Prime Minister Gordon Brown should read the book. CNN just featured it two weeks ago, and so forth.
I’ll be happy to send a first chapter excerpt to any of your readers (includes foreword by Dr Yoo the CEO of SK Communcitions) if they send an email to me at tomi at tomiahonen dot com
Thank you for mentioning the book.
Tomi T Ahonen
www.tomiahonen.com