Download or read book The Telecommunications Revolution in Korea written by James F. Larson and published by James F. Larson. This book was released on 1995 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English-language work on Korea's unique experiences with telecommunications, this book focuses on Korea's distinct political, economic, legal, socio-cultural and personal dimensions. It includes chapters on the relationship between political liberalization and telecommunications,education and public promotion of the information society, together with the role of new technologies in the reunification of Korea.
Download or read book Digital Development in Korea written by Myung Oh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-03-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of digital information and communications technology in South Korea’s development, starting with and building upon the crucial developments of the 1980s. Its perspective draws on the information society concept and on a conceptual model of strategic restructuring of telecommunications. It also draws on firsthand experience in formulating and implementing policies. The analysis identifies aspects of the Korean experience from which developing countries around the world might benefit. Oh and Larson describe the revolutionary developments of the 1980s including the TDX electronic switching system, a major surge forward in semiconductors, the start of privatization and color television and the thoroughgoing restructuring of Korea’s telecommunications sector. They further explore government leadership, the growing private sector and international trade pressures in the diffusion of broadband, mobile communication, and convergence toward a ubiquitous network society. The role of education in these developments is explored in detail, along with both the positive and negative aspects of Korea’s vibrant new digital media. The book also looks at Korea’s growing international involvement, its role in efforts to build a world information society, and finally, its future place in cyberspace. This book will be of interest to students, scholars and policy makers interested in communications technologies, Asian/Korean Studies and development studies.
Download or read book CELL PHONES IN NORTH KOREA Has North Korea Entered the Telecommunications Revolution Yonho Kim written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are North Koreans so eager to get cell phones? What is the impact of growing cell phone usage on the economy and society? Which segments of the population are most influenced by cell phones and have seen the biggest changes in their lifestyles accordingly? Meanwhile, mobile telecommunications service is a double-edged sword for the North Korean government. [...] On the other hand, historically, cell phones tend to strengthen individuality and social movements, provide an opportunity for dissent and eventually lead to political upheaval, such as the 2001 "text-message revolution" in the Philippines and the Arab Spring in the Middle East. [...] The second broker physically aligns the microphone of each phone with the earphone of the other phone so the remitter and recipient can talk to each other and confirm the remittance.63 Jae-pyong Seo, Secretary-General of the Committee for the Democratization of North Korea, says that when the real time "international" call is not available, the recipient has the broker in town record a confirmatio. [...] Again, the second broker physically aligns the microphone of each phone with the earphone of the other cell phone, so the remitter can hear the recorded message.64 According to Chosun Ilbo reporting, in early 2013, North Korea decided to allow international calls in the Rajin- Sonbong (Rason) SEZ near the Chinese border, in a bid to attract foreign investment.65 Dr. [...] Cell phones and texting played an important role in the "People Power" revolutions of 1986 and 2001 in the Philippines.82 Effective use of social media on cell phones was a crucial element of the Arab Spring, the spread of pro-democracy movements in North Africa and the Middle East starting in late 2010.
Download or read book China s Telecommunications Revolution written by Eric Harwit and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's telecommunications industry has seen revolutionary transformation and growth over the past three decades. Chinese Internet users number nearly 150 million, and the PRC expects to quickly pass the US in total numbers of connected citizens. The number of mobile and fixed-line telephone users soared from a mere 2 million in 1980 to a total of nearly 800 million in 2007. China has been the most successful developing nation in history for spreading telecommunications access at an unparalleled rapid pace. This book tells how China conducted its remarkable "telecommunications revolution". It examines both corporate and government policy to get citizens connected to both voice and data networks, looks at the potential challenges to the one-party government when citizens get this access, and considers the new opportunities for networking now offered to the people of one of the world's fastest growing economies. The book is based on the author's fieldwork conducted in several Chinese cities, as well as extensive archival research. It focuses on key issues such as building and running the country's Internet, mobile phone company rivalry, foreign investment in the sector, and telecommunications in China's vibrant city of Shanghai. It also considers the country's internal "digital divide", and questions how equitable the telecommunications revolution has been. Finally, it examines the ways the PRC's entry to the World Trade Organization will shape the future course of telecommunications growth.
Download or read book Building Telecom Markets written by Whasun Jho and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyzes the Korean path of telecommunications market liberalization. An analysis of the Korean mobile market liberalization reveals that international and technological changes had significant impacts on the decision to liberalize the telecom market and on state-industry relationships. Changes in the international market, prompted by the United States' telecom liberalization initiative and the GATT/WTO regime, and technological revolution in the telecom, forced the Korean government to embrace the rule of market liberalization. This required fundamental reforms in the domestic telecommunications system, so that the country could secure an international competitiveness that the old state monopoly would no longer provide.
Download or read book Digital Development in Korea written by Myung Oh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-03-14 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of digital information and communications technology in South Korea’s development, starting with and building upon the crucial developments of the 1980s. Its perspective draws on the information society concept and on a conceptual model of strategic restructuring of telecommunications. It also draws on firsthand experience in formulating and implementing policies. The analysis identifies aspects of the Korean experience from which developing countries around the world might benefit. Oh and Larson describe the revolutionary developments of the 1980s including the TDX electronic switching system, a major surge forward in semiconductors, the start of privatization and color television and the thoroughgoing restructuring of Korea’s telecommunications sector. They further explore government leadership, the growing private sector and international trade pressures in the diffusion of broadband, mobile communication, and convergence toward a ubiquitous network society. The role of education in these developments is explored in detail, along with both the positive and negative aspects of Korea’s vibrant new digital media. The book also looks at Korea’s growing international involvement, its role in efforts to build a world information society, and finally, its future place in cyberspace. This book will be of interest to students, scholars and policy makers interested in communications technologies, Asian/Korean Studies and development studies.
Download or read book Building Telecom Markets written by Whasun Jho and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mobile telecommunication industry has been one of the fastest growing industries in the global economy since the late 1990s. As the first country to offer commercial Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) cellular service in the world, Korea was able to jump right into the digital mobile markets, enhancing its status as a leading manufacturer of mobile equipment. While the growth of the telecom industry occurred with the emergence of worldwide market-oriented regulatory reform and liberalization in telecommunications, the state-market relationship in Korea evolved from state monopoly toward “centralized governance” and later toward “flexible governance,” which is substantially different from “liberal governance” of the US. This book examines the uniqueness of Korean regulatory reforms of the mobile telecommunication sector, and argues that the market-oriented regulatory reform and liberalization should be explained by focusing on the interactions among the state, the private sector, and international political economic environment. It will appeal to scholars and policy-makers alike concerned with market regulation, Asian development and political economy.
Download or read book South Korea s Webtooniverse and the Digital Comic Revolution written by Brian Yecies and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-09 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the meteoric rise of mobile webtoons – also known as webcomics – and the dynamic relationships between serialised content, artists, agencies, platforms and applications, as well as the global readership associated with them. It offers an engaging discussion of webtoons themselves, and what makes this new media form so compelling and attractive to millions upon millions of readers. Why have webtoons taken off, and how do users interact with them? Each of the case studies we explore raises interesting questions for both general readers and scholars of new media about how webtoons have become a modern form of popular culture. The book also addresses larger questions about East Asia’s contributions to global popular culture and Asian society in general, as well as South Korea’s rapid social and cultural transformation since the 1990s. This is a significant – and understudied – aspect of the new screen ecologies and their role in a new wave of media globalisation as we approach the end of the second decade of the 21st century.
Download or read book OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform Regulatory Reform in Korea 2000 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2000-06-02 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Review presents an integrated assessment of regulatory reform in framework areas such as the quality of the public sector, competition policy and enforcement, and market openness in Korea.
Download or read book Innovation and Technology in Korea written by Jörg Mahlich and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-07-24 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Korean government believes it can turn the country into one of the top 10 competitive economies by 2010. This volume offers an in-depth analysis of the Korean innovation system and shows how its science and technology policies actually work. As Korea’s economy is now reaching the status of a newly advanced economy, the book also takes a close look at ongoing structural changes in the course of economic globalization.
Download or read book Redefine Service and User Concepts in Korean Telecommunication Business Law According to it and Media Service Revolution written by Sangkyu Rhee and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main laws which regulate Korean telecommunication industry are Telecommunication Basic Law and Telecommunication Business Law. But the both laws have been enacted under the market environment where service providers owned their networks only could provide telecommunication services. That is, vertically integrated firms could provide telecommunication services. Therefore it is possible to classify agents in the relevant market into two categories such as service providers and users. However as IT and media technologies (especially IP technology) have been improved, it becomes possible to provide information.telecommunication services without owning network and/or facilities. As a result various business models and market agents are emerged in the telecommunication market. Because of these environmental changes the current Telecommunication Basic Law and Telecommunication Business Law which were enacted under the past environment show limit to regulate today's various business models and agents. For example, the laws failed to regulate new type of service providers because there is no article to regulate them in current laws. Thus regulation failure and unfair regulation between incumbents and new entrants happen. This article tries to redefine telecommunication service and user concepts which are suitable to current and on-coming market environment. This helps market to allocate resource efficiently and grow persistently by clarifying rights and duties of each agent in the market.
Download or read book Smartland Korea written by Dal Yong Jin and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging and comprehensive look at the Korean smartphone industry and culture
Download or read book Korea s Amazing Century From Kings to Satellites written by and published by James F. Larson. This book was released on with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society written by Youna Kim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society is an accessible and interdisciplinary resource that explores the formation and transformation of Korean culture and society. Each chapter provides a comprehensive and thought-provoking overview on key topics, including: compressed modernity, religion, educational migration, social class and inequality, popular culture, digitalisation, diasporic cultures and cosmopolitanism. These topics are thoroughly explored by an international team of Korea experts, who provide historical context, examine key issues and debates, and highlight emerging questions in order to set the research agenda for the near future. Providing an interdisciplinary overview of Korean culture and society, this Handbook is an essential read for undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well scholars in Korean Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, and Asian Studies in general.
Download or read book Global Television And The Politics Of The Seoul Olympics written by James F. Larson and published by James F. Larson. This book was released on 1993-12-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Telecommunications and Universal Service written by Seán Ó Siochrú and published by IDRC. This book was released on 1996 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telecommunications and Universal Service: International experience in the context of South African policy reform
Download or read book Legal Reform in Korea written by Tom Ginsburg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law in Korea has historically been viewed as merely a tool of authoritarian rule, but since the transition to democracy in 1987 it has served a more important and visible role as a force for social change. With contributions from leading US and Korean scholars, Legal Reform in Korea explores this response to domestic and international pressures, applying a socio-legal perspective to both legal practices and the legal institutions themselves, which have become a major political issue throughout the developing world. An invaluable resource for students of Asian law and Korean studies.
