Samsung Galaxy S II sales record in Korea

Samsung Galaxy S II breaks 1m sales record in Korea

Samsung has announced that it has broken the 1m sales barrier for the Galaxy S II in South Korea, the milestone taking just a month to do so. In contrast, the original Galaxy S took 70 days to reach the same sales figure, making the second-gen handset a record-breaker in its home country.

In fact, after just three days the Galaxy S II had already sold 100,000 units, with the 500,000 point passed in two weeks time. Samsung reckons one is bought every three seconds. No word on sales figures elsewhere in the world, but with its dual-core 1.2GHz processor and 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus display we’re guessing popularity is high all over.

Although that display might not have the same resolution as some slightly newer devices, like the HTC Sensation, its extra sub-pixels and incredible quality goes a long way in making up for any shortfall. Our full review of the Samsung Galaxy S II is here.

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Blogger’s Phone Review Deleted by Samsung

globalvoicesonline.org  Lee Yoo Eun

In South Korea, an influential blogger’s negative review of a Samsung smartphone has been taken down due to pressure from the manufacturer. Internet users have harshly criticised the nation’s biggest conglomerate, Samsung Electronics and Naver, the nation’s biggest web portal, for censoring the blogger.

Hahm Young Min is an influential IT blogger who has several thousand daily readers on his blog, Hahm Young Min’s DicaGallery. Hahm posted a review of Samsung’s newly released smartphone, Galaxy S2 on April 2, 2011, entitled “Nine shortcomings of the Unusable Galaxy2S of Samsung”.

Screenshot of Hahm’s removed post.

“Temporarily suspended”

Several days later, the original post was nowhere to be seen. In its place, was this message from the blog host Naver: “This post has been temporarily suspended due to reader requests. The decision was taken in accordance with Korea Telecommunication Law, Article 44 Clause 2.”

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North Korea Tweeting Back at South Korea

Lee Yoo Eun  globalvoicesonline.org

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South Korean politician and Governor of Gyeonggi Province, Kim Moon-Soo harshly accused North Korea of the regime’s 3rd generation succession and its reclusive policies in a conference in Beijing, China. North Korean Twitter @uriminzok fired back at Kim, calling his comment  ‘a reckless remark’.

South Korea’s citizen/blogger news, Wiki Tree [ko] posted. [ko]