From developmental to network state: Government restructuring and ICT-led innovation in Korea

Does ICT maturity catalyse economic development? Evidence from a panel data estimation approach in OECD countries

“…Particularly, the Republic of Korea’s remarkable ICT-led development in recent decades is viewed as an interesting success story. Relevant studies claimed that a major portion of the success can be explained by knowledge accumulation during its transformation into a network state ( Larson and Park, 2014 , Oh and Larson, 2011 ).…”

Digital content promotion in Japan and South Korea: Government strategies for an emerging economic sector

“…South Korea's large and rapid investment in information technology (IT) services and connectivity, producing world‐leading speeds and reliability, coupled with comparatively low costs, laid the foundation for South Korea's emergence as an IT power. This, in turn, provided a technological foundation for the emergence of the digital content sector (Choi, Foth, & Hearn, ; Larson & Park, ). South Korea quickly came to see the content industry as an important economic sector.…”

Mobile services with handset bundling and governmental policies for competitive market

“…The Korean government has persistently implemented the promotion policies for information and communication industries and national economic development: the Ministry of Science, Information and Communications, and Future Planning (MSIP) execute promotion policies for ICT industries and the KCC imposes regulations about relevant industries (e.g., broadcasting, mobile and wired telecommunications services) (Larson and Park, 2014). The MSIP and the KCC have recently initiated four major competition-promoting policies intended to guarantee reasonable consumer prices for mobile telecommunications and reduced mobile device prices and service charges (KCC, 2011;MSIP, 2013b).…”