www.textually.org Tomi Ahonen’s book “Digital Korea” discusses digital convergence in South Korea. Here are some excerpted statistics: [via CNN.com/asia]
- 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
