This article provides a better understanding of Korean telecommunications and informatization2 progress. For that purpose, it focuses on accounting for the development of telecommunications and the level of informatization in Korea. Firstly, it describes the historical development for 115 years after the introduction of modern electrical telecommunication. Secondly, it presents the data for telephones, PCs and high-speed communication networks in order to show the situation of infrastructure for information and telecommunications. Thirdly, it shows the use and characteristics of the telecommunications infrastructure, coving major topics like PC online, Internet, e-business transactions. Finally, for the information technology employment and the level of informatization, this study presents the employment in information and telecommunication companies, characteristics of users of information and telecommunications, and other information indices.
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