Korea World Leader in Broadband/Technology at Home

bozoman42 writes "67% of Korean Internet users are connected to broadband, some at 32Mbps! In fact, according to the Guardian Article, Korea is leading in nearly all walks of a modern high tech life. But there may be downsides. (Especially as covered here last week.)"

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Slight rewording

[Anonymous Coward]

67% of Korean HOUSEHOLDS are connected to broadband. There's a big difference there, and it's very impressive. I'll bet that 67% of Mexican Internet users are connected to broadband, and it's around 0.1% of their population.

Re:Slight rewording

[plone]

The article said that 67% of Korean HOUSEHOLDS are connected to broadband, not 67% of Korean Internet USERS. That means that 67% of the homes are wired with broadband. The actual percentage of population of people who have access to broadband is therefore much higher than 67% since Households usually constitute more than a single person.

Why is this shocking!?

[prichardson]

This is not shocking due to some basic differencews between the US and South Korea.

1)The South Korean government is encouraging technological growth, while the US is still realing from P2P networks and people exercising free speach.

2)South Korea is relatively new, like Europe and Japan, South Korea recently (relativel) rebuilt its industrial base. The US has NEVER had a serious conflict close enough to home to neccesatate major rebuilding. This means that our stuff is old compared to theirs.

So you see, it is not only explainable, it is logical that South Korea would lead the US, and the rest of the world, in the people having cool toys and making cool tech toys.

Re:Why is this shocking!?

[tshak]

This is not shocking due to some basic differencews between the US and South Korea.

You forgot:
3) South Korea is smaller then the average US state and therefore very easy to wire for broadband.

Weird world of Korea

[Ektanoor]

There is some strange paradox here. Korea in fact is two Koreas. They started just in the same line and nearly with the same problems but today they seem to make a difference like Earth and Moon. We have the North with its rich resources but backward economy, its hunt for nukes, militarisation and lack of Internet (probably with exception of some bureaucrates). And we have the South that was considered to be more poor in resources, but which, in the end, is becoming the top technocratic country in the world. Yes, the South was also highly militarised and had nukes from the US. But the same went for the North with USSR.

I just wonder what will happen when someone will try a real reunification. What will happen when a North, which still cannot give up its dependency on someone else, with an economy in shambles and one of the biggest armies in the world meets a South which a big part of the world depends on, an economy that gives envy to anyone and carrying a more pacifist mood than ever?

North - What do you mean by "using Internet"?
South - What do you mean by "not using Internet"?

We need that here,

[HanzoSan]

It would improve the social enviornment in the USA, and give kids a place to go.