The state of the internet in Korea 2010

1. The Internet in KOREA

2. I’m
Yeon Jo (@__Yeon)
Front-End Engineer
specialize in javascript
iPhone Developer
Work for NCSoft

5. The Internet in Korea
It started by KORNET
06. 1994

6. The Internet in Korea
95%
Household Broadband penetration
06. 2009

7. PC BANG

8. 98.88%
Microsoft Windows OS market share
06. 2010

9. 97.15%
Internet Explorer market share
06. 2010

10. Internet Explorer uses ActiveX
to load other software applications in the browser.
And other browsers (like Safari, Firefox)
can’t load ActiveX controls.

11. No Banking
No Shopping
without

12. Professor Gi-chang Kim has lead
the Openweb Korea project
from 2006
But It has not been changed

13. Finally, the iPhone is released in KOREA
11. 2009

14. What iPhone did in KOREA
Samsung yield up No.1 in mobile phone for the first time
Increasing use of SNS (Twitter, Facebook)
Increasing use of mobile web
Some banking and shopping sites gave up the activex

15. And I think
Korean geek’s keywords in 2009-2010 are
SMART PHONE
specially iPhone
MOBILE WEB
HTML5
SNS(Social Networking Service)

16. Thanks