Reaching for the Stars With Digital Convergence ... - Korea IT Times

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MARCH 2006 / Vol. 21 

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“Wireless Broadband World Forum 2006” 

22~25 May 2006, Hotel Lotte Jamsil, Seoul, Korea 

http://www.wibro-worldforum.org 

Cover-Page 

“Toward Successful WiBro(Mobile WiMAX) and 4G” 

Hosted by the Ministry of Information & Communication (MIC), Korea’s fleet engines of 

dynamic and evolving communication science and technology agencies are pleased to invite 

global business and technology leaders to join us at the “Wireless Broadband World Forum 

2006”, where you can also enjoy a leading edge of nationwide dynamic u-Korea project. 

Proposed agenda will be (subject to change): 

WiBro(Mobile WiMAX) for First and Second Days 

* Standardization, Policies and Services 

* System and Terminals 

* Business Model, Enterprise and Applications 

* Repeaters and Chip Technologies 

3G/4G Evolution and Tutorials for Third and Fourth Days 

* Vision of IMT-Advanced 

* 3G Evolution 

* Business Models, Systems and Terminals for 3G and 3G Evolution 

* Systems, Air Interfaces and Networks for IMT-Advanced 

* Tutorials 

Experiencing Commercial WiBro Services and Exhibitions for 4 Days 

Hosted by 

Ministry of Information & Communication (MIC) 

Organized by 

The Korean Institute of Communication Sciences (KICS), 

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), 

International Cooperation Agency for Korea IT (ICA) 

Sponsored by 

KT, SK Telecom, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, POSDATA, LG-Nortel, KTF, 

LGT, and Etc. 

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Contents 

March 2006 / Vol. 21 

31 CeBIT Special 

Digital products with various functions 

originating from digital convergence to 

make conspicuous showing 

28 University/ Kyung Hee Cyber Education 

Ubiquitous University Offering Superior Cyber 

Education 

31 Korea@CeBIT 2006 

32 Digital products with various functions originating from 

digital convergence to make conspicuous showing 

34 Wibro, DMB Overseas Promotion Bureau: DMB 

Spreads Wings to Overseas Markets 

36 KOSA Leads SW Firms Delegation to CeBIT 2006 

38 Opening the Door to the 4G Era 

40 Latest Trends in Multimedia Technology 

42 New Approaches to e-Trade and Home Security: 

INVESTCLUB 

44 Poised to Capture Overseas Markets: MultiChannel Labs 

46 Korean SMEs at CeBIT 2006 

49 Korean Firms at CeBIT 2006 

20 

Korea: Emerging Design Powerhouse? 

6 Publisher’s Message 

Wishing Korean Firms Success at CeBIT 2006 Hannover! 

Expected “M1 Project” to Herald the $30,000 Per Capita Era 

7 Editorial 

Netizens’ Privacy Under Threat 

8 Expert Column 

The Robot Era-Coming Soon to Households Near You! 

10 Opinion 

CeBIT Offers Golden Opportunities to Korea’s SMEs 

12 Policy Directions 

Balanced Development of Software and Hardware 

14 Policy Direction 

MIC Unveils its Annual Operations Plan for 2006 

16 Academia/KICS 

Time to Loosen Restrictions 

18 New Growth Engine/ Energy 

MOCIE Focuses on Energy Creation as New Growth Engine 

20 New Growth Engine/ Design Powerhouse 


22 Open Korea/ Invest Korea Head 

Securing Korea’s Future through FDI 

24 IT Leader/ president Byun Bo-kyung, Kolon Data 

Communication 

Managing the Change from ‘E’ to ‘U’ 

26 Financing IT/ Korean Re 

Re, a Reinsurance Firm Poised to Rank Among Global Top 10 

by 2020 

VoIP/ VON Spring 2006 

52 World’s VoIP Experts Head for San Jose 

53 LG-Nortel: Canadian-Korean Partnerships Making 

Waves 

55 Samsung Networks: The Customer Comes First 

57 Skype: Korea’s Premier e-Commerce Community 

On the Scene Report 

58 iPark Beijing: Smoothing the Way in China 

60 Industry/ SEMI Korea 

SEMICON 2006 Sets New Standards 

62 Game Industry/ KAIA 

Amusement Arcade Industry Faces Hurdles 

People 

64 Serving Second Term as KADO president 

Deputy Prime Minister Kim Reconsiders Support Project 

for Top Scientists 

KIPO to Shorten Patent Screening Period to 10 Months 

65 Former MOCIE Minister Selected as New Head of KITA 

52 VoIP/VON Spring 2006 

66 New MOCIE Minister Outlines Roadmap for Year Ahead 

Shin Bak-jae Appointed as Chairman of FORCA 

India Special 

68 India Super IT Power and Paradise of Wellness 

70 Incredible India: Korean Flocking to India for Healthcare, 

Tourism and Buddhist Roots 

IT Essay 

72 Applying Digital Technology to Korea’s ‘Hallyu’ Boom 

74 MIC News 

MI Project to Make Korea Global Mobile Leader 

75 MIC and EUCCK Sign an Agreement for IT Cooperation 

MIC and MOCT Sign MOU on ‘u-City’ Construction 

76 ICT News Panorama 

Busan Aims to Host the 17th World Congress on ITS 

Samsung Forms Alliance for Standardization of Portable IT 

Devices 

Korea and Guatemala Conclude IT Cooperation Agreement 

Global Semiconductor Market to Grow 9.5% to $258 billion 

84 Country Report 

Mystical Morocco Embraces ICT 

86 News Panorama 

Busan New Port in Full Swing 

BPA Bidding Strongly to Host 2011 IAPH Conference in Busan 

88 News Briefs 

90 2006 Global Exhibition Schedule 

92 Jobseekers & Openings 

94 Company Directory 

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Yeo Hong Il 

Lee Kyung Hwan 

Kim In Ki 

Lee Chung Moo 

Lee Kang- Soon 

Jeffrey D. Bohn 

Koo Won-hum 

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Lee Suk Woo 

Bluellet Choi 

Shin Sung-won 

Shin Doo hyo 

Kim in-ki 

Cho Hee-sang 

Ryu Mi Ja 

Bok Dong-kyu 

Kim Chang ho 

Park Mi-Jung 

Kim Si-hwan 

Kim Rae-ho 

Yoon Jong-jin 

Yoon Hee-Joo 

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Lee Jin-bok 

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Publisher’s Message 

Editorial 

Wishing Korean Firms Success at CeBIT 2006 Hannover! 

Expected “M1 Project” to Herald the $30,000 Per Capita Era 

Netizens’ Privacy Under Threat 

With the “M1 Project,” the Korean government is one step closer 

toward realizing its goal of being “Mobile No.1 Country in the 

World.” We are keeping an eye on the fact that Korea’s mobile industry 

technology and market competitiveness are being considered as the most 

promising field to accomplish earlier than expected per capita national income 

of $20,000 and the entry into the $30,000 era. We would like to urge the 

Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) to further efforts which are 

under way under the slogan of “100% M-Literacy,” as well as “0% M-Virus” in 

order to accomplish 10 million mobile broadband subscribers, and to secure 

30% of the world’s terminal market, 50% of the world mobile terminal core 

parts market, as well as 15% of the global B3G system market. 

Kim Tae-sub 

In addition to this M1 Project, MIC’s Wibro & DMB Overseas Promotion Chairman and Publisher 

Bureau activities also are attracting hot interest from associated business circles, 

as this is considered to be the watershed year for Korea’s DMB or Wibro overseas inroads. As the 

newly established Bureau’s Director-General points out, Korea’s approach to the overseas markets 

through a combination of the cutting edges of DMB and Wibro is expected to pay off in a race with 

Europe’s DVB-H, whose framework is inferior, including its weak points in terms of sports real 

game relay etc. in comparison with our DMB which shows its strengths in sports game relay and disaster 

warning systems. We believe that Korea DMB’s edge should convince foreign mobile network 

operators that our DMB could offer golden business opportunities in Europe. 

Also, since the government selected intelligent robots as one of the 10 new growth engines of the 

economy, it is necessary to make the best use of investment and adequately assign the roles to be 

taken up by those seeking to commercialize the technologies. To highlight the importance of robot 

power, in this month’s issue we feature a special contribution by ETRI president Yim Chu-hwan. As 

he explained in detail, the government for example needs to promote trial projects with public procurement 

programs and provide assistance to SMEs to streamline the investment and create a new 

market. Above all, it needs to facilitate businesses to have a mindset to make continued investments. 

Moreover, comprehensive government assistance is required so that division of roles among participants 

can be well-organized. 

On the overseas exhibition front, the CeBIT 2006 Hannover, Germany which will kick off from 

March 9, is promising to offer golden opportunities for Korea’s large IT-related companies as well 

as SMEs, opening the stage for displaying latest technologies of digital convergence. In that respect, 

the Cover Story of the March issue of The Korea IT Times explores some of the benefits which the 

2006 CeBIT 2006 will provide Korean participants, as its includes their state-of-the-art latest technologies 

and products plus an in-depth report, by president Eugene Jun, the Incheon Information 

Technology Industry Promotion Agency, regarding the CeBIT 2006. 

We wish all participating companies success in Hannover! 

Kim Tae-sub 

The thorny issue of Internet privacy and identity theft 

has again been making headlines in South Korea over 

the past weeks, following the disclosure that hackers had 

stolen the identities of more than 200,000 people who 

had registered for the popular online game, Lineage. 

More than two million Koreans are apparently registered 

users of the game, owned by the 

company NCSoft. 

This breach of privacy 

predictably resulted in a public 

outrage over the issue of identity 

security, which has forced the 

government to step in and take 

measures to protect Netizens from 

such crimes. 

The Ministry of Information 

and Communication (MIC) 

therefore announced on Feb. 16 

that it would launch an antiidentification 

theft campaign by 

reviewing subscription policies of 

100,000 local websites to check 

whether they leaked resident 

registration numbers and other 

personal information. In addition, the ministry is 

considering banning Internet sites from using the 

resident numbers for confirming the identification of 

new subscribers. 

NCSoft, South Korea’s largest game company, said 

that it would adopt a mobile-phone certification system 

after receiving severe damage to its credibility. The firm 

planned to implement the new system by the end of 

February, which will prevent hackers from using other 

peoples’ personal information to create game accounts. 

Besides NCSoft, most of Korea’s gaming portals or 

Internet sites are mandating new subscribers to provide 

their names and resident registration numbers. When 

ending up in the hands of criminals, citizenship numbers 

become dangerous because they include so much 

personal, sensitive information. The 13-digit number 

system used on Koreans’ resident registration cards is a 

combination of birth date, gender, the first registration 

region and registration order. 

In this sense, the MIC faces a dilemma because 

frequent use of resident numbers is risky - yet the realname 

system is needed to stop unscrupulous Web users 

from posting libelous photographs, 

video footage or remarks, which is 

another emerging social problem. 

For this reason, the MIC last 

year introduced a new online 

identification system based on five 

alternative types of foolproof ID to 

replace the resident numbers. 

However, this praiseworthy 

initiative has not been widely 

accepted because most Internet 

portals refuse to adopt any one of 

them, claiming it would impose a 

substantial financial burden to set 

up new databases. In fact, they have 

no obligation to do so because the 

policy is just a guideline, not a 

coercive measure. 

In this climate, NCSoft also looks set to phase in a 

new system while, at the same time, neglecting the MIC 

project. Instead of moving to one of the five new 

alternatives, it has decided to complicate things for 

identity thieves while basically depending on the use of 

resident numbers. The new sign-up system, which will 

be introduced by NCSoft, will require people to enter 

their mobile phone numbers together with resident 

numbers. 

Although the MIC has yet to decide whether or not it 

will make it compulsory for firms to adopt the new 

formula, it is clear that urgent and decisive intervention 

by government is needed to prevent a repetition of the 

Lineage fiasco. The measures introduced by Lineage 

and its counterparts are unlikely to be sufficient 

deterrence to the new breed of Cyber criminals. 

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Expert Column 

The Robot Era--Coming Soon 

to Households Near You! 

Intelligent robots selected as one of the 10 new growth 

engines of the Korean economy 

By Yim Chu-hwan 

Robots are fast emerging as partners in 

our daily lives. According to a recent 

survey by the news media, it was 

found out that a robot cleaner was chosen 

as the second most wanted item after PDP 

TV among the electronic goods considered 

by brides to be necessary for marriage 

gifts. In the case of Japan, too, robots have 

become cherished items to elderly people. 

It has been reported that elderly people in 

Japan are taking care of Aibo robot dogs as 

if they were their offspring. Moreover, 

Paro, the therapeutic robot seal, is said to 

give comfort to elderly patients in hospitals. 

In this manner, intelligent robots are 

anticipated to faithfully execute the role as 

friendly partners to elderly people at a time 

of the society’s transition into an aged society. 

It seems that it is not a thing of the distant 

future wherein robots will become 

partners to our leisurely lives and provide 

us with knowledge-based services. 

In addition to the examples aforementioned, 

it is thought that intelligent robots, 

mounted with ever more advanced functions, 

will be utilized in various fields to 

perform special tasks that include not only 

those of medical service and national 

defense but also public facility control at 

major sites and operations to be carried out 

under extreme conditions. 

In 2002, the government selected intelligent 

robot as one of the 10 new growth 

engines of the economy. Since then, the 

government has played a leading role in 

presiding over R&D activities while the 

private sector, which includes large conglomerates 

as well as dozens of small and 

mid-sized venture firms, has strived to 

develop robots for their commercial use. 

In order to bear fruit from such an 

endeavor, it is necessary to make the best 

use of investment and adequately assign 

the roles to be taken up by those seeking to 

commercialize the technologies. To 

streamline the investment and create a new 

market, the government, for instance, 

needs to promote trial projects with public 

procurement programs and provide assistance 

to SMEs. Above all, it needs to facilitate 

businesses to have a mindset to make 

continued investment. 

Moreover, comprehensive government 

assistance is required so that division of 

roles among participants can be well organized. 

By doing so, SMEs can concentrate 

on developing high-tech parts and modules 

while large conglomerates can devote their 

energies to such tasks as systems integration 

and packaging. On the part of research 

institutions, too, they can focus on developing 

technologies for the production of 

standard components with high completion 

rates and make technology innovations and 

transfers. 

From the technological standpoint, it is 

true that Korea is a little behind when compared 

with Japan and other advanced countries 

in the field of robot hardware. 

However, Korea has gained world recognition 

for its technological prowess in the IT 

field. Helped by such technological 

strength, combined with the utilization of 

new IT technologies, the automobile industry, 

for example, is witnessing added values 

being created with the effect of reviving 

the industry as a whole. 

Similarly, the robot industry, too, is 

anticipated to see new values and markets 

being created through the industry’s convergence 

with IT technologies despite 

Yim Chu-hwan, 

president of ETRI 

technological weakness in hardware. In 

this vein, the Ministry of Information and 

Communication has proposed a new paradigm 

dubbed “Ubiquitous Robot 

Companion (URC)” for advancing the 

robot industry. 

The Robot Age of one robot for every 

household is forecast to come to us soon. 

Moreover, it will be possible to experience 

various information services based on converged 

functions such as cleaning, home 

security, and entertainment. As a matter of 

fact, a trial operation of robots, and specifically 

64 multi-functional robots placed in a 

house, has already been performed in late 

last year as part of the government’s URC 

project. Moreover, the government plans to 

launch a similar trial service to several 

thousand households later this year for the 

widespread use of multi-functional 

“national robots” to be supplied at around 

one million won. 

In the “Ubiquitous Age,” tailor-made 

information services provided by intelligent 

robots will be readily available, since information 

terminals connected to both the fixed 

and wireless network will be present at every 

corner of human life. The brain part of an 

intelligent robot needed to provide services 

one after another will be controlled and operated 

by a mighty central server capable of 

recognizing various situations. 

In order to expedite such life-convenient 

intelligent age of robots, the industry, 

academia and research institutions should 

join forces and do their best on their part. 

Moreover, comprehensive assistance by 

the government, too, should be carried out 

at the same time. 

What time weakens, nature can strengthen. 

It can add years to life. It can ease the stress of modern living. And it 

can even improve immunity. It’s the ‘science of life’, and as old as mankind. 

It uses self-knowledge and self-care to bring harmony to your mind, 

body and soul - with secrets gathered from leaves, flowers, roots, 

oils and stones, Ayurveda will nourish you. Much like Incredible !ndia. 

8 _ March 2006 KOREA IT TIMES

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Opinion 

Lights to the world, love to our neighbours. 

CeBIT Offers Golden 

Opportunities to Korea’s SMEs 

By Eugene Jun 

Eugene Jun, president of the Incheon 

Information Technology Industry 

Promotion Agency (IITPA) 

CeBIT Hannover, one of the world’s 

most acclaimed exhibitions in the field 

of information and telecommunications, 

will kick off its 21st annual event on 

March 9. 

In 2005, the exhibition certainly lived up 

to its reputation as a world-renowned showcase 

for IT products, with the participation of 

6,246 companies from 69 countries, demonstrating 

their technological prowess to over 

470,000 visitors. 

For this year, too, global companies such 

as Microsoft, IBM, Dell and HP have been 

preparing for the event determined not to 

dent their reputations. On Korea’s part, too, 

such big names as Samsung and LG are set 

to take part, while KOTRA and the Korea 

Electronics Association plan to assist small 

and mid-sized IT enterprises (SMEs) for 

their participation in the Korean Pavilion 

with 124 booths. 

To SMEs in the IT field, CeBIT, 

Hannover, Germany is highly important. 

Whereas the CES held annually in Las 

Vegas in the United States in the early part of 

the year has a distinct characteristic of being 

a showroom for displaying new products, 

CeBIT has maintained its fame as an exhibition 

where IT companies reap the fruits 

through the signing of contracts with buyers. 

For some time, Korean companies have 

taken part in CeBIT and satisfactorily 

demonstrated Korea’s strength in the IT 

field. In the case of Incheon-based IT companies, 

too, 13 companies have succeeded last 

year in concluding contracts worth 23.58 

million dollars. In some cases, the contract 

money has far surpassed a company’s yearly 

revenue. 

For the past three years, Korea’s IT 

industry has led the nation’s economy with a 

19% growth on average, accounting for 

about 15% of the GDP and 27% of exports. 

It has secured the world’s top competitiveness 

in the fields of semiconductors, mobile 

phones and PDPs while quite a number of 

competitive SMEs have also sprung up. 

Nevertheless, the energetic IT industry is virtually 

dependent on a few conglomerates. 

From the perspective of job-creation, SMEs 

acting as the basis of the nation’s economy, 

the competition in the domestic market has 

become ever fiercer, with a limited market. 

Moreover, these SMEs are faced with growing 

difficulties due to the relentless chase by 

latecomers of developing nations, including 

China. Under such circumstances, I would 

like to make few suggestions to Korean IT 

SMEs to capitalize on the CeBIT and 

become world-renowned global companies. 

Firstly, it is important that they unfold 

marketing and compete in overseas markets 

with their own brands. For some time, many 

IT companies have adopted the Original 

Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) method for 

export as they have regarded it to be less 

risky, possibly due to the considerable hurdles 

in making inroads into overseas markets. 

And yet, these companies should do away 

with the practice of engaging in price competition 

with rival companies from developing 

nations for the sake of creating high values 

and securing mid and long-term marketing 

channels. They should compete with their 

own brands while properly managing buyers 

from drifting away and enhancing the market 

recognition of their brands. Since CeBIT 

Hannover is the world’s top stage for buyers, 

it is time to find ways to overcome challenges 

in the global market through one’s 

own brands, however difficult and tiresome 

it may be. 

Secondly, it is advantageous to make the 

best use of IT promotion agencies at home 

and abroad. As there will be more than 6,000 

companies immersed in stiff competition for 

marketing at CeBIT, it is essential to secure 

overseas distribution channels and unfold 

various sales activities. However, it requires 

time and energy to have a good grasp of local 

markets and prepare countermeasures. 

Today, IT promotion agencies, including 

KOTRA and the Korea Electronics 

Association, share information on overseas 

markets and have been engaged in a mission 

to assist the carefully-selected IT companies 

seek opportunities overseas under the 

umbrella of “IT Korea.” Accordingly, if one 

makes the best use of putting such cooperation 

into practice, one can bring about new 

breakthroughs by saving considerable time 

and money and raise the chances of a business 

success. 

Thirdly, the benefits of participating in 

overseas exhibitions can be elevated only 

when sought relentlessly. An instance of this 

can be seen in a company that succeeded in 

concluding a contract through a re-encounter 

with a buyer at GITEX following a similar 

one at CeBIT. By making prearrangements 

with buyers for encounters at Hannover, one 

can expand human networking. Moreover, 

when one wins the confidence of buyers 

through continuous participation in exhibitions 

and contacts with buyers, the subsequent 

fruits will be enriched. 

The competition among nations and companies 

in the world IT market is growing 

more and more intense. If it were not a global 

IT company with a worldwide network, the 

opening of overseas markets by SMEs alone 

is thought to be extremely difficult. 

Moreover, the stiff competition among 

SMEs and the business environment surrounding 

the world market have become and 

continue to be more unfavorable to SMEs 

with the passing of time. Nevertheless, the 

future prospects are bright, as Korea’s image 

as a high-tech power has already been disseminated 

and the expectations for “IT 

Korea” have resulted in the choosing of 

Korean products. I hope that Korean SMEs 

in the IT field can expand their technological 

power and growth prospects through 2006 

CeBIT and lay the basis for becoming 

invaluable players on the global scene. 

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Policy Directions 

Assemblyman calls for balanced 

development to ensure global 

competitiveness through quality 

institutional foundation 

Balanced Development of Software and Hardware 

The government should seek 

balanced development of software 

and hardware industries this year to 

upgrade the competitiveness of the 

nation’s IT industry, Lee Hae-bong, 

chairman of the Science Technology 

Information and Communication 

Committee of the National Assembly, said. 

Noting that the nation’s IT policy has 

been focused on hardware, including semiconductors, 

handsets and LCD, Lee said, 

“The government needs to actively foster 

the software industry, which has been relatively 

neglected, from now on for balanced 

development of the software and hardware 

industries.” 

In an interview with Korea IT Times, he 

said, “With the advent of digital convergence 

era covering DMB, WiBro and 

IPTV, the convergence trend between 

communication and broadcasting has been 

accelerated these days. To effectively cope 

with such a change and offer services to 

maximize customers’ satisfaction, we 

should create a proper institutional foundation. 

“To secure international competitiveness 

of the IT industry, it is also very 

important to actively foster small and 

medium-sized IT venture companies producing 

parts and materials, a base of the IT 

industry,” said the veteran lawmaker. 

In order to help domestic IT industry 

secure global competitiveness and keep 

sustainable growth, the government should 

encourage balanced development of large 

and smaller companies through mutual survival, 

said Lee. 

On the pending issues of Korea’s information 

and communication industry, he 

said that the IT industry, a hero to help the 

nation overcome the 1997-1998 Asian 

financial crisis, has played a locomotive 

role of the national economic growth. 

The IT industry is also the futuregrowth 

power engine of Korea, which will 

Lee Hae-bong, chairman of the Science 

Technology Information and 

Communication Committee of the 

National Assembly 

lead the national economy in the coming 

years, the seasoned lawmaker said. 

Thanks to the government’s policy to 

foster the IT field strategically, Korea is 

now leading the global market in terms of 

memory semiconductors, mobile phones 

and LCD. 

Korea is also widely recognized as the 

top-tier informatization country in the 

world, securing the No. 1 position in the 

ITU digital opportunity index and the No. 

5 in the UN electronics government 

index. 

“However, to beat off latecomers 

among developing countries, including 

China and Taiwan, there are still many 

tasks for Korea to be solved, including 

The following are excerpts from an 

interview with Lee Hae-bong, chairman of 

the Science Technology Information and 

Communication Committee of the National 

Assembly: 

Q: Would you describe the activities 

of the Science Technology Information 

and Communication Committee of the 

National Assembly and its key plans for 

2006? 

A: The committee is in charge of 

development of science technology and 

national informatization through screening 

of bills related to science technology and 

information technology, inspection of 

administration affairs, and investigation 

activities. 

The business scope of the committee 

ranges from policies on details of science 

technology and information & 

communication technology to technology 

processing policies pertaining 

comprehensive meanings. 

In keeping with the rapid development 

of science technology and information 

offering of services satisfying consumers’ 

demands, balanced development of large 

and smaller IT companies, and fostering 

of the software industry,” said Lee. 

“Although many variables are expected 

to occur in the domestic information and 

communication market this year,” he continued 

to say, “The overall economy is 

expected to recover gradually and the 

domestic IT industry is likely to be better 

off compared with last year, encouraged by 

the rapid development of the IT industry.” 

In line with this, the government needs 

to actively support a variety of marketing 

activities for expanding the domestic consumption 

market related to information and 

communication. 

communication technology, the business 

scope of the committee is expanding. 

In particular, the scope of the 

committee is expanding to electric and 

electronics fields, including Internet and 

semiconductors nowadays. 

Now, we should actively foster science 

technology and information 

communication technology sectors 

carrying high value added and global 

competitiveness. 

We should maintain superiority over 

advanced countries in the sectors by 

enhancing international competitiveness 

through creation of fair and transparent 

competition environment and 

concentrating our ability for reform of 

national technology. 

I think science technology and 

information communication technology 

should create national interests as a 

growth engine through creation and 

reform. 

For creation of more jobs and futureoriented 

growth engine, the government, 

political circles and enterprises should 

work together for recovery of the public 

welfare and development of the national 

economy. 

Our committee acutely feels the 

importance of science technology and 

information communication technology 

and strives to draw up the future blueprint 

of Science Korea and IT Korea. 

Q: Do you have any requests for 

the government in the information 

and communication sector? 

A: As for a variety of new services, 

which are emerging following wire & 

wireless integration and convergence of 

communication and broadcasting, the 

government should make best efforts to 

support their smooth advancement into 

the market and activation of the services. 

Along with this, the government 

needs to revamp relevant regulations and 

systems according to changes of market 

environment and implement policies to 

create fair competition environment in 

the communication market persistently. 

At the same time, the government 

To help domestic companies actively 

advance into overseas markets, the government 

also should make best efforts to 

enhance the status of Korea’s IT industry 

in the global market and map out proper 

measures to bolster global competitiveness 

of Korean products, he said. 

He said that a number of Internet violation 

accidents and security-related accidents 

through many forms and channels 

are likely to occur this year. 

To prevent such accidents, the government 

and information protection companies 

are required to keep close channels 

and operate various prevention systems, 

Lee said. 

For sustained growth of the IT industry, 

enterprises should secure technology 

competitiveness and go all-out to develop 

into global-level companies. 

Enterprises need to promote their global 

competitiveness through technology 

and managerial reform and inject fresh 

vigor into the market through activation 

of facility investment, said the committee 

chairman. 

At the same time, they should exert allout 

efforts for exploring overseas markets 

and pursuing accompanying growth 

through mutual survival between large 

and smaller companies. 

To maintain global competitiveness, 

domestic enterprises should not ace into 

the inner market centered on their affiliates 

should push for policies, which enable 

people to use communication service 

safely and make more efforts for 

promotion of people’s benefits from use 

of communication through expansion of 

tax exemption or reduction on 

communication fares for socially 

disadvantaged people, including 

handicapped persons. 

Q: Would you make some suggestions 

for relevant information and 

communication industry? 

A: The domestic IT industry has 

played a pivotal role of the national 

economy. 

The information and communication 

industry should create new markets by 

expanding investment in new services and 

promote global competitiveness through 

development of reformative technology 

and managerial reform. 

Along with this, IT enterprises need to 

aggressively explore the overseas market 

and expand exports of IT products in the 

future. 

and push for a speedy management for 

development of products satisfying needs 

of the global market and customers, Lee 

said. 

In case of small and medium-sized 

enterprises, they should secure global competitiveness 

through strategic alliance, 

M&A, specialization of certain fields, or 

expansion of business scale. 

Large enterprises, for their part, they 

are required to actively support promising 

smaller venture companies, which are 

called the root of the IT industry, through 

proper payment for goods, joint research & 

development, managerial assistance and 

overseas joint marketing activities. 

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KOREA IT TIMES March 2006 _ 1 3

2006-03-12006.3.410:47AM페이지14001채널맥(3443-0701) 

Policy Direction / MIC 

MIC Unveils its Annual 

Operations Plan for 2006 

The Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) plans 

to push its new ‘u-IT839’ Strategy in earnest to create an IT 

industry with revenues of 576 trillion won and added-value 

of 277 trillion won during the next five years through 2010. 

The Ministry announced on February 8 its annual plan for 

2006 which outlined the u-IT839 Strategy, a revised version of 

the IT-839 Strategy set up in February 2004, and policies to bring 

about the Ubiquitous Society. 

In the newly designed u-IT839 Strategy, the Internet phone 

service (VoIP), which has already been commercialized, was 

excluded from the list of eight new services outlined in the previous 

u-IT839 Strategy. In addition, DMB and DTV services were 

combined into a single service to be replaced by “broadband convergence 

services”’ and “IT services” to reflect today’s trend of 

attaching importance to software and the convergence of communication 

with broadcasting. 

In the category of the three major infrastructures outlined in 

the strategy, the Internet address system IPv6 was integrated into 

BcN and was replaced by “soft infraware” in its place. In the list 

of nine new engines of growth, mobile communication and telematics 

equipment were integrated into one to be replaced by 

RFID/USN devices. 

According to MIC’s forecast, the IT industry is expected to 

post an annual growth of 14.2% during the five-year period until 

2010 and create revenues totaling 576 trillion won with addedvalues 

worth 266 trillion won. 

In his briefing to the press, Minster Chin said, “The u-IT839 

Strategy will strengthen the tie-ups among services, infrastructures, 

and new engines of growth and will give vitality to 

the nation’s economy by actively fostering software and 

facilitating the convergence between the IT sectors 

with non-IT fields.” 

The Advent of “National Robots” as Household 

Assistants 

MIC has announced that the government plans 

to develop “national robots” at a price of one million 

won each for their use in households this 

year. 

Based on the view that production costs can 

be drastically reduced when intelligent robots 

will be developed by utilizing the nation’s 

advanced network infrastructure, the government 

set up a special task force last year for 

Chin Dae-je, minister of information and communication, 

announces MIC’s annual plan for 2006 at MIC’s conference room 

on Feb. 8, 2006 

developing national robots. 

The ministry said that R&D projects, such as platform standardization 

for component modulation and for securing the compatibility 

between devices, are being carried out as scheduled. 

Accordingly, the ministry forecasts, national robots will give new 

vitality to the society. 

HSDPA and WiBro to Open Ultra High-Speed Internet Age 

During the first half of this year, WiBro, the world’s first wireless 

broadband Internet, will go into commercial service in Korea. 

To better facilitate this momentous service, the government 

plans to oversee and assist its implementation 

by building up a cooperative system among 

the tripartite entities of businesses, academic 

circles and research institutions. In addition, 

the government plans to formulate favorable 

business environment by preparing a specialized 

fee system for WiBro service. 

In the meantime, the government plans to 

introduce HSDPA, a new W-CDMA channel 

with a maximum transmission speed of 

16Mbps, by the end of this year. When this 

goes into service, Korea will be opening an 

ultra high-speed Internet Age true to its name. 

Area of Service for Terrestrial DMB to be 

Expanded Nationwide 

In order to secure usable frequencies for the terrestrial DMB at 

the regional level, the ministry intends to redress the usable frequencies 

for 44 T-DMB stations. The ministry said that it would 

issue licenses expeditiously upon the recommendations by the 

Korea Broadcasting Commission for opening the “Era of 

Handheld TVs”’ around the nation. 

Since the bright prospects of DMB as a major trade item have 

already been confirmed, the ministry said it will actively foster 

DMB-related businesses. To this end, the ministry plans to exert 

effort to make DMB adopted this year as 

ITU’s international standards following 

the ETSI’s adoption last year. 

According to the ministry’s forecast, 

the number of DMB subscribers will 

grow to 2.1 million by the end of this 

year, and to 15 million by 2010, with 

the cumulative sum of exports made 

through DMB players during the corresponding 

period expected to reach 35 

billion US dollars. 

Entire Nation to Receive Terrestrial 

Digital TV Access 

Terrestrial digital TV broadcasting 

in Korea, which began service in metropolitan 

regions in 2004, is slated for 

nationwide service as 17 additional 

cities and counties will be included in 

serviced areas under the scope of 41 

digital TV stations. 

Partial Adoption of “Real-Name 

System” on the Internet 

As part of a government scheme to keep Internet sound cyberspace, 

the ministry has come up with a number of measures. 

These include partial adoption of a ‘real name system’, an arbitration 

system for the prevention of cyber disputes, the development 

and dissemination of software for informing spam, and development 

of Privacy Trust Score (PTS) that can measure the degree of 

privacy being protected. 

In addition to these, the ministry plans to develop automatic 

verification systems to check falsification of electronic documents 

and software for the protection of corporate information. 

For the purpose of preventing hacking on the Internet, the ministry 

plans to run ‘automatic hacking search system’ 200 times 

annually and thereby prevent hacking on about 70,000 major 

Web sites. 

High-Speed Internet for Villages with More Than 30 

Households 

As part of a government plan to bridge the information gap, 

the ministry plans to make the high-speed Internet accessible to 

about 130,000 households that have thus far been left secluded 

from the information network. 

In addition, the ministry said it plans to provide educational 

programs to some 890,000 “information-alienated” people - 

including the elderly, handicapped and North Korean migrants - 

and supply them with a total of 25,000 IT devices. 

To support this project, the ministry plans to invest a total of 

43.7 billion won this year. 

“Mobile Number One Project” Launched 

The ministry announced that it would implement the “Mobile 

Number One Project” for Korea to become a 

top “mobile nation” and lead the global 

market by 2010. The ministry said that the 

project is highly significant in the sense that 

it not only commemorates the 10th anniversary 

of CDMA’s successful commercialization, 

but will also open the era of $30,000 

per capita income by creating another success 

story after CDMA’s. 

To achieve this goal, the ministry has 

outlined five major strategies: the building 

of “Mobile Special Districts”’ for laying 

down the mobile environment for the next 

generation; the formation of cheap and safe 

mobile environment; the securement of 

technological edge to lead the global mobile 

market; the building of an environment for 

creating new mobile businesses; and the 

formation of a foundation for the mobile 

industry’s continued growth. 

UN-ESCAP ICT Training Center to Bolster 

Korea’s Leadership 

The ministry said that it plans to build up Korea’s leadership 

role in the IT field on the global stage by opening the ICT 

Training Center of the United Nations Economic and Social 

Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP) and actively 

promote international cooperation, through such means as the 

training of IT manpower from developing countries. 

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2006-03-12006.3.410:47AM페이지16001채널맥(3443-0701) 

Academia / KICS 

Time to Loosen Restrictions 

Convergence and integration of technologies and 

services in terms of the u-IT839 Strategy demands 

new approach 

On the occasion of the 30th 

Anniversary of its establishment 

last year, the Korean Institute of 

Communication and Sciences (KICS) is 

busy presenting its vision, called “Vision 

2015.” The KICS president Kyung-Sup 

Kwak who stands at the hub of its 

activities and concurrently as Director & 

Prof., UWB Wireless Communications 

Research Center as well as School of 

Information and Communication 

Engineering, Inha University in Incheon, 

Korea, emphasizes that the Institute deals 

with most parts of the government’s IT839 

strategy, among so many institutes in 

Korea, explaining that all members are 

devoting efforts to meet the society’s 

expectation as an institute in tune with the 

u-IT839 strategy. 

Korea’s top institute in the IT field 

What is most noteworthy among the 

Digital Home Workshop hosted by KICS 

Institute’s activities this year, is that it is 

planning to organize hosts of international 

events such as APCC(Asia Pacific 

Communications Conference)/Wireless 

World Forum (focusing on WiBro and 

IMT-advanced) and so forth with the view 

of boosting its international phase and 

activating its activities. 

Prof. Kwak expects that such 

international events could serve as a good 

opportunity to be able to acquaint foreign 

scholars and associated experts with 

Korea’s WiBro (Wireless Broadband 

Service), 4G and DMB (digital multimedia 

broadcasting). 

With such international events as an 

impetus, Kwak reveals his plans to 

develop current KICS into world level as a 

leading global Institute of Information 

Technology. 

As part of plans to strengthen 

internationally this phase, the KICS is 

Prof. Kyung-Sup Kwak 

KICS president 

further planning to re-illuminate the 

international journal JCN (The Journal of 

Communications and Networks), to 

establish its China Branch on April or May 

maybe this year, to increase international 

members and to enlarge exchange with 

renowned institutes globally such as 

IEEE/IEICE/CIC. 

Buoyed by its latent energy that the 

KICS has stretched itself as the highest 

institute of IT field in Korea over the past 

30 years since its establishment in 1975, 

Kwak shows confidence that it is poised to 

launch as a global institute both nominally 

and virtually, regarding this year as the 

first year of its relaunch. 

Convergence of communication 

& broadcasting 

The domestic IT industry is in a phase 

that is confronting a new environment as 

the government adapts the IT839 Strategy 

in the interests of economy activation and 

accomplishing national income of 

$20,000. In 2005, WiBro business 

providers were selected for the first time in 

the world and further as DMB service 

begins, new changes are forecast in the IT 

industry this year. 

Such recent environments will 

accelerate the fusion of communication 

and broadcasting even more along with 

greater efficiency and sharing of wire & 

wireless resources, Kwak notes, keeping 

an eye on the fact that new cutting-edge 

technology’s development and the 

necessity of new service development are 

urgently needed in that regard. 

From this point of view, the president 

emphasizes: “Particularly, now is the time 

our Institute which has been spearheading 

IT technology, should display true 

function through wide academic activity 

and exchange for the state-of-the-art 

technology as well as policy 

development.” 

As the IT industry’s major changes 

expected this year, Kwak names the fusion 

of broadcasting & communication, 

mobility, broadband, wirelessization and 

so forth, in connection with DMB, WiBro, 

IPTV, WRAN (TV business provider’s 

Internet service introduction), 

WPAN(Personal Area Network) and 

WBAN (wearing computer/intelligent 

robot) etc. 

In particular, as users’ desire demands 

bidirectionality, mobility, multimedia 

medium, user’s convenience, and 

reasonable & convenient cutting-edge 

service, he maintains that the fusion of 

communication and broadcasting will be 

accelerated including such technology 

change as content’s digitalization, 

Internet’s development, wire & wireless 

integration, All-IP, network’s broadband, 

and others. 

“The domestic IT industry is in a phase that is 

confronting a new environment as the government 

adapts the IT839 Strategy in the interests of 

economy activation and accomplishing national 

income of $20,000.” 

Regarding such fusion direction, Prof. 

Kwak said that it is desirable to facilitate 

market-initiative fusion with priority to be 

given to market-oriented policy, industry 

nurturing and national vision 

accomplishment policy, and competition 

furtherance policy. 

The hub of IT activities 

In regard of the necessity of relieving 

policy restrictions in conjunction with 

integration/ fusion of communication & 

broadcasting, Kwak proposes that industry 

nurturing is necessary to spearhead 

standardization and the government must 

unbind such restriction’s frame in order to 

prepare the trend of fusionization at an 

early stage and to preoccupy the market. In 

this context, the Institute needs to have 

committed itself to leading the role in 

loosening restrictions. 

Buoyed by valuable experiences gained 

through his past 10 years’ academic 

institute activities, president Kwak 

commits himself to devote intensive 

efforts during his tenure period on 

following areas: first, on enlarging 

member subscriptions to record numbers 

and activation of member activity, second, 

on reinforcing the Institute’s international 

phase even more, third, on seeking more 

effective fund utilization method in terms 

of finances self-reliance, and on propelling 

women as well as branch chapter 

activation continuously plus boosting the 

quality of JCN International Journal, IT 

field’s SCI (Science Citation Index) 

registration journal, one dimension higher. 

Backed by good finances self-reliance 

rather than any other institutes, its latent 

energy which stretched itself as the highest 

institute of IT field in Korea, and 

ambitious Vision 2015, he pledged that he 

will do his best in ushering the KICS into 

an institute for members, an institute in 

which academic exchange is activated, and 

an institute going to the world. 



2006-03-12006.3.410:47AM페이지18001채널맥(3443-0701) 

New Growth Engine / Energy 

MOCIE Focuses on Energy 

Creation as New Growth Engine 

Reform of Korea National Oil Corporation high on the agenda 

Lee Won-gul, 

vice minister of the MOCIE 

The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and 

Energy (MOCIE) will place the focus of its 

energy policy for 2006 on energy creation 

as a new growth engine, Lee Won-gul, vice minister 

of the MOCIE, said recently. 

“In 2006, the ministry will firm up its base to 

expand the energy supply capacity on a stabilized 

basis, while promoting the public functionality 

of energy,’ said the vice minister in an 

interview with the Korea IT Times. 

The ministry will map out the third electric 

power supply and demand basic plan, which 

includes the implementation of a contract to 

introduce LNG on a long-term basis after 10 

years and the setup of a long-term plan for the 

coal industry. 

Along with this, the ministry will activate 

development of overseas resources by pushing 

for revision of the Korea Petroleum Corporation 

Act in such a way as to actively foster enterprises exclusively 

dealing with resources development and introducing the oil field 

development fund amounting to 200 billion won, he said. 

“At the same time, we will strive to create a new growth engine 

in the energy sector through active fostering of the market-friendly 

energy saving industry and the new and renewable energy industry, 

advancement into overseas markets by the domestic energy industry 

and expansion of R&D investment,” said the vice minister. 

Also, the government plans to strengthen public function by 

enhancing equality of the energy service for the low-income 

bracket. 

Asked about the government’s measures to tide over the era of 

high oil prices, Vice Minister Lee said, “In the past two years, 

international crude oil prices structurally upgraded by one step 

under the pressure of a rising demand for oil amid the favorable 

global economy and restrictions on oil producing countries’ ability 

for surplus supply,” said Lee. 

“Entering this year, the global oil prices continue rising, affected 

by Iran’s nuclear development issue and 

Nigeria’s unstable oil supply in the wake of 

recent unrest,” he said. 

As of Feb. 1, 2006, international oil prices hit 

a record high with the Dubai oil reaching $61.1 

per barrel. The average oil price between Jan. 1 

and Feb. 21 this year stood at $58.22 per barrel, 

up 51.6% from a year earlier and up 8.8% from 

the end of last year. 

“To effectively cope with the recent high oil 

prices, the government will exert all-out efforts 

to secure energy and resources stably through 

expansion of development of overseas 

resources,” Lee said. 

“The government will also seek ways to 

improve efficiency of energy use and bolster its 

energy-saving policy, while striving to develop 

future energy, including new and renewable 

energy,” he said. 

Along with this, the ministry will enhance its ability to cope 

with possible crises, including worsening of the Iranian nuclear 

issue, by expanding its oil storage for emergency. 

As part of its efforts to save more energy, the ministry will 

encourage people to participate in the energy saving campaign 

voluntarily, while accelerating the conversion into an energy low 

consumption society on a mid- and long-term basis. 

In case self-regulatory steps reach a limit owing to an abnormal 

surge in oil prices, the government will seriously consider 

employing a compulsory energy saving measures on a step-bystep 

basis, he said. 

Commenting that Korea depends for 97% of the energy it uses 

on foreign countries, Vice Minister Lee stressed the necessity of 

securing energy stably. 

“In line with this, the government has set development of overseas 

resources as a national agenda and has been pushing ahead 

with proper measures through hosting of national energy consultation 

meetings, which are presided over by the president,” he said. 

The following are excerpts from an interview with Lee 

Won-gul, vice minister of the MOCIE: 

Q: Would you comment on the Ministry of 

Commerce, Industry and Energy’s plan to expand supply 

of new and renewable energy? 

A: In preparation for continuation of high oil prices and 

regulations on international environment, the government will 

make policy efforts, including allotment of enough budgets for 

development and supply of new and renewable energy. 

The ministry plans to expand the portion of new and renewable 

energy to primary energy to 

the 5% level of advanced countries 

by 2011, he said. In 2001, 

the supply ratio of new and 

renewable energy was 7% in 

France, 4.3% in the United 

States, 3.0% in Japan and 2.2% 

in South Korea (in 2005). 

Q: Global societies are 

making jointed efforts to tide 

over an era of high oil prices. 

What is the meaning of the international cooperation? 

And what is the role and future plan of Korea? 

A: Recently, uncertainties are continuing in the international 

energy market owing to political instability in the Middle 

East region and a surge in demands for oil by developing countries, 

including China. 

Resource-rich countries need massive amounts of money 

and time to develop and produce resources, whereas resource 

consumption countries are staging stiff competition to secure 

enough resources, resulting in uneasiness in the supply of oil. 

Korea’s development activities of overseas 

resources dampened temporarily right 

after the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis, 

but the results of the government’s such 

efforts have been visualized thanks to summit 

diplomacy and enterprises’ strategic 

participation in the overseas resources 

development project. 

Korea’s investment in oil field development 

continued to rise from $340 million 

in 2001 to $590 million in 2003, $670 million 

in 2004, and again to $800 million in 

2005. 

Accordingly, the nation’s self development 

ratio of crude oil went up from 2.0% 

in 2001 to 3.0% in 2003, 3.8% in 2004, and 

further to 4.1% in 2005. 

“Under the basic plan to privatize 

affiliates of KEPCO, the 

government selected KOSEP as the 

first target for privatization and 

tried to do so.” 

Accordingly, to jointly cope with energy crisis and 

strengthen energy security, oil producing and consuming 

countries are required to seek energy cooperation for mutual 

survival, said Vice Minister Lee. 

Q: Would you introduce the government’s plan for 

privatization of Korea South-East Power Co. (KOSEP), 

an affiliate of Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO)? 

Do you have any idea for privatization of other KEPCO 

subsidiaries? 

A: Under the basic plan to privatize affiliates of KEPCO, 

the government selected 

KOSEP as the first target for 

privatization and tried to do so. 

However, the sell-off of the 

managerial right of KOSEP 

was suspended temporarily 

owing to nonattendance of 

final bidders, including 

POSCO, SK and J-Power, in 

the bidding. 

As a second step, the government 

attempted to list 

shares of KOSEP on the stock market, but failed as the anticipating 

public subscription price fell far behind the book value. 

As a result, the ministry plans to concentrate its energy on 

enhancing the corporate value of KOSEP, while pushing for 

listing of its shares on the stock market at a proper time in the 

near future. 

As for privatization of other KEPCO subsidiaries, the ministry 

is planning to map out various measures for privatization 

suitable for market conditions in the future. 

In particular, the nation attained tangible 

results in oil exploration projects in 

Nigeria and Vietnam last year, following 

Russia and Kazakhstan, thanks to President 

Roh Moo-hyun’s summit diplomacy, he 

said. 

As a means of expanding such favorable 

results for development of overseas 

resources, the government will continue 

bolstering resource diplomacy by strategic 

region, while pursuing expansion of 

diverse financial resources for oil exploration 

projects and strengthening of public 

and private companies’ ability to develop 

overseas resources. 

In particular, it will analyze main factors 

for successful advancement into overseas 

markets by the domestic energy industry 

and make the best use of the analyzed 

results, setting them as model cases for 

Korean-style development of overseas 

resources. 

Besides, the ministry will use private 

financial sources through introduction of 

oil field development funds and actively 

foster private enterprises specialized in 

development of overseas resources through 

expansion of infrastructures such as R&D 

and manpower. 

Along with this, the government will 

make a strong push for reform of Korea 

National Oil Corporation gradually for 

effective management. 



2006-03-12006.3.410:47AM페이지20001채널맥(3443-0701) 

New Growth Engine / Design Powerhouse 


KIDP aims to make Korea the world’s 7th design powerhouse by 2008 

The Korea Institute of Design 

Promotion (KIDP) will strive 

to achieve its ambitious target 

of making Korea the world’s 7th 

design powerhouse by 2008, Kim 

Chul-ho, president and CEO of the 

KIDP, said recently. 

Noting that the nation’s design 

ability reaches about 80% of such 

design advanced countries as the 

United States and Britain and 

outstrips the level of Taiwan and 

China slightly, he said that KIDP 

will go all-out for the development 

of the nation’s design industry. 

In an interview with the Korea IT 

Times, Kim said, “Despite the 

importance of the design industry 

and a high ratio of results to 

investment now standing at 19 times, 

support for the design sector is still 

insufficient.” 

Regional design reform projects 

Accordingly, KIDP plans to 

newly establish and operate regional 

design reform projects in order to set up a regional integrationtype 

design reform system. 

“Through activation of regional culture projects, including 

design exhibitions and design contests, we also project to 

expand regional ability in the design field,” said the top manager 

of the KIDP. 

“First of all, we will push for the national environment 

design improvement project to spread the design conception to 

all environmental and public facilities, including residential and 

office spaces and roads. We will improve the national image 

strategically,” Kim said. 

Along with this, KIDP will make best efforts to enhance 

global competitiveness of the design industry. It will also push 

for bolstering the design competitiveness through reform of a 

professional company-centered system by actively fostering 

competitive core and sound design enterprises and strengthening 

report conditions by design professional companies. 

At the same time, it will offer differentiated supporting 

measures to design enterprises according to the maturity stage, 

Despite the importance of the design industry, support for 

the design sector is still insufficient. 

said the president. 

Spreading global design culture 

Besides, KIDP plans to support 

the spot-oriented manpower training 

in order to effectively cope with 

industrial demands and bolster its 

design ability through international 

cooperation. 

It will also seek expansion of the 

design industry’s base through 

spread of design culture and mull 

over ways of creating a designbased 

industry carrying high value 

added, Kim said. 

Asked about the KIDP’s 

programs for international 

cooperation for 2006, Kim said that 

it will hold the Alvar Aalto 

Exhibition featuring Finland’s toplevel 

design and construction culture 

in March in Seoul. 

In June, it will also hold the 41st 

Korea Industrial Design Exhibition, 

which is widely called as the 

gateway to success in the nation’s 

design industry, in June. 

The 13th Korea Youth Design Exhibition, which provides 

young design hopefuls with hope and the future vision, will be 

held in August. 

Also, KIDP plans to hold the 2006 Design College 

Exhibition, which links college graduates to employment 

through their works, at COEX, southern Seoul in November. 

In particular, KIDP projects to organize the “Design Korea 

2006 - Shanghai” event in China in November this year to help 

Korean enterprises and design-specialized companies lay 

cornerstone for advancement into the Chinese market, the 

biggest in the world. 

“We plan to introduce superiority of Korean design by 

heralding the nation’s excellent design products and enterprises 

to Chinese enterprises. It is the second event KIDP held in 

China, following the ‘Design Korea 2004 - Beijing.’ We 

finished the Beijing event successfully by attracting more than 

50,000 visitors a day and receiving requests from the Chinese 

side to extend the exhibition period,” Kim said. 

The following are excerpts from the interview with CEO 

Kim Chul-ho of the KIDP. 

Q: Would you comment the importance of design, 

which is widely regarded as the next-generation 

growth engine? 

A: Design has been recently emerged as a powerful 

mean to achieve “reform,” now being strongly pushed by 

private enterprises and the government. 

In case that design is used as not a simple styling but a 

process of solving problem, design can 

suggest useful solutions to many problems 

spreading in the overall society. 

In particular, design can be an effective 

strategy for enterprises to create openminded 

corporate culture, explore new 

markets and manage total brands. If we 

define that design is a process of 

commercializing technology and idea, 

design will decide the method of meeting 

commodity and service with customer. 

A report announced by the economic 

research institute of a company defined 

that a good design refers to a design 

offering good experience to customers 

until they buy, use and abolish a product. 

Accordingly, we can say that the role 

of design is to reflect consumers’ 

conscious and unconscious expectations and desire to 

product through study on users. 

Q: Would you introduce design-related success stories 

of global enterprises? 

A: Viewing such global enterprises as Philips, Apple, 

British Airways, IBM and Nike, we can know that they 

achieved success by using design as a core managerial 

strategy. 

Apple CEO Steve Jobs who succeeded in coming back 

with such reformative design products as iMac and iPod, 

said, “Design is the soul in the center of manmade 

creations.” He has a firm design mind and has pushed ahead 

with design management. 

Under the recognition that design is the last place to 

contend for victory, Lee Kun-hee, chairman of Samsung 

Group, has emphasized securing design competitiveness for 

production of world premium products. 

According to a research report announced by Design 

Council of Britain, the stock value of design-centered 

enterprises in the British FTSE 100 index (stock index of 

top 100 enterprises jointly operated by London Stock 

Exchange and Financial Times) soared as much as 200% 

Kim Chul-ho, 

president and CEO of the KIDP 

that of other companies during the 10-year period from 

1994 to 2004. 

In this way, design is in the limelight of growth engine 

for the future, generating great effects on enterprises, 

government and living of individuals. 

Because of the influencing power and importance of 

design, major advanced counties establish design policies 

from the national viewpoint and exert best efforts for 

securing the global leadership in the design field. 

Q: KIDP has been implementing a variety of projects 

for small and medium-sized enterprises. 

Would you introduce some projects? 

A: KIDP has been spending some 12 

billion won ($12.3 million based on 2005) a 

year for a variety of projects supporting 

small and medium-sized enterprises. 

First of all, KIDP has been carrying out 

the design reform technology development 

project, which helps small and mediumsized 

enterprises suffering from shortage of 

design development ability or designers 

develop new designs of products, packages, 

characters and brands by linking them with 

design-specialized companies or 

universities, 

It also extends loans up to 1 billion won 

($1.02 million) to smaller companies at 

favorable terms and conditions for development of design 

reform technology. 

After selecting success design products among goods 

produced by enterprises that participated in the design 

reform technology development project, KIDP supports 

them for PR and sales promotion activities. 

Since 2004, KIDP has been focusing its supports on 

smaller companies producing the world’s top-class products 

or next-generation growth-oriented goods. 

It is also actively supporting companies exclusively 

engaging in development, survey, analysis, and consultation 

businesses of industrial design. 

Q: Do you have any comments on the design industry? 

A: Now design has become the last place for enterprises 

to contend for victory. The design sector is an advanced 

industry carrying high value added and a core engine power 

to narrow the nation’s gap with advanced countries. 

Accordingly, concern and investment in the design 

industry will be a short cut to make Korea an advanced 

country with per capita national income of over $20,000. 



2006-03-12006.3.410:47AM페이지22001채널맥(3443-0701) 

Open Korea 

/ Invest KOREA Head 

Securing Korea’s 

Future through FDI 

With the recent appointment of 

Chung Tong-Soo as Head of Invest 

KOREA to replace Alan Timblick, 

there will be keen interest in how successfully 

he will attract foreign investment into 

Korea. He has an impressive career background, 

such as having served as Deputy 

Assistant Secretary of Commerce in the 

administration of President Bill Clinton, 

and as an attorney working to boost 

Korea/U.S. trade. 

He is considered to be an excellent 

choice for the position as he is fluent in 

English and Korean, understands the U.S. 

and Korean points of view, has solid experience 

in the U.S. commerce department, 

and has a proven ability as an organizer 

and strategist. 

Speaking after his inauguration as head 

of Invest Korea, he stressed that his top priority 

was to reinvigorate Invest KOREA, 

pointing out that there are limitations to 

what an individual such as himself could 

accomplish in seeking foreign investors 

and inducing FDI (foreign direct investment) 

into Korea. 

Global Leadership 

He emphasized the importance of abolishing 

unnecessary restrictions obstructing 

foreign investment in close cooperation 

with foreign investment-associated ministries 

such as the Ministry of Commerce, 

Industry and Energy, Ministry of 

Construction and Transportation, and 

Ministry of Government Legislation as 

well as central government agencies like 

the Korea Customs Service and the 

“Speaking after his inauguration as head of Invest 

Korea, Chung stressed that his top priority was to 

reinvigorate Invest KOREA, pointing out that there are 

limitations to what an individual such as himself could 

accomplish in seeking foreign investors and inducing 

FDI (foreign direct investment) into Korea.” 

National Tax Service. 

Mr. Chung seeks the abolition of 

restrictions to enable Korea to become a 

financial hub for Northeast Asia, and the 

broad-scale promotion of investment 

incentives offered by the Korean government 

to attract foreign R&D centers. 

To underpin the success of foreign 

investment in R&D, the Korean government 

offers a comprehensive range of 

New 

Korean/American 

head of Invest KOREA 

dedicated to realizing 

the “Korean Dream” 

incentives such as tax exemptions, lease of 

land at extremely favorable rates, financial 

support, cash grants, customs duty exemption, 

and the chance to engage in national 

R&D projects, according to Chung. 

In particular, Chung encouraged foreign 

investors in research and development to 

take advantage of R&D Human Resource 

Development Program, which is administered 

by Invest KOREA. 

When comparing Korea’s investment 

environment with neighboring competitors 

such as China and Singapore, he pointed 

out that it could not be said that Korea’s 

investment environment for foreign investment 

has significantly improved in recent 

years, citing a host of government regulations 

that discourage foreign investment 

together with unstable labor/management 

relations. 

Chung named the rapid abolition of 

unnecessary controls and the stabilization 

of labor/management relation as the most 

urgent tasks necessary to attract further 

FDI. In this connection he wants the central 

and autonomous regional governments 

to streamline restrictions and simplify 

administrative procedures in order to make 

it easier to win approval for factory establishment, 

for example. 

He stressed that the situation regarding 

labor relations in Korea is somewhat exaggerated, 

not the least because union membership 

has fallen to 11 percent of the 

workforce. However, Chung said he hopes 

to promote the concepts of dialogue and 

communication among foreign investors in 

dealing with their workforces in order to 

avoid labor conflicts or resolve them 

peacefully. 

Chung Tong-soo, 

new head of Invest KOREA 

On another front, he is convinced that 

corruption cannot be tolerated if Korea is 

to progress to the league of the most 

advanced economies. 

Challenge & Opportunity 

In conjunction with the challenge 

posed by China, Hong Kong and 

Singapore in attracting foreign direct 

investment, Chung insists that Korea must 

stay ahead in the fields in which it has a 

distinct comparative advantage, namely 

semiconductors, displays, liquid crystal 

displays (LCDs), plasma display panels 

(PDPs), automobiles, shipbuilding, and 

steel. 

Foreign direct investment - associated R&D incentives 

The newly appointed Invest KOREA 

Head, who immigrated to the United 

States as a high school student with his 

family, foresees all Koreans achieving a 

“Korean Dream” through their efforts on 

the lines of “American Dream,” but advises 

that this would be difficult to accomplish 

on the back of the industries of the 

past. 

Chung pointed out that Korea is in no 

position to compete on labor costs in areas 

such low-end textiles and electronics that 

would be better shifting to cheap-labor 

countries like Vietnam and China. 

Rather, he continued, the future of 

Korea lies with its globally successful 

industries that must keep their lead 

through strategic partnerships with foreign 

companies intended to enhance their 

technological, financial and marketing 

capability. 

Chung notes that given the rising 

antipathy toward foreign capital, both 

government in its various branches and 

the media have a responsibility to educate 

and inform the Korean public at large as 

to why foreign direct investment is vital to 

the progress of the Korean economy in 

terms of employment creation, technology 

transfer, access to foreign markets and 

the introduction of advanced management 

techniques. 

In closing, he stressed the importance 

of foreign direct investment attraction 

once more by citing the case of the United 

States, which through a policy of proactively 

encouraging foreign direct 

investment has built a competitive human 

resource base, plus introduced advanced 

technology and massive amounts of overseas 

financing to give the American economy 

its unparalleled dynamism, and in the 

process, driven marginal enterprises from 

the marketplace. 

“The newly appointed 

Invest KOREA Head, who 

immigrated to the United 

States as a high school 

student with his family, 

foresees all Koreans 

achieving a “Korean 

Dream” through their 

efforts on the lines of 

“American Dream,” but 

advises that this would be 

difficult to accomplish on 

the back of the industries 

of the past.” 

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2006-03-12006.3.410:48AM페이지24001채널맥(3443-0701) 

IT Leader / President Byun Bo-kyung 

Managing the Change from ‘E’ to ‘U’ 

Kolon adapts to new trends by shifting emphasis to Ubiquitous business in 2006 

Aleader “ 

who can’t contribute to a 

transformation, is not a leader!” So 

says Kolon Data Communication 

(www. kdc.kolon.com) president & CEO 

Byun Bo-kyung, who strongly believed in 

this philosophy as he successfully mapped 

out a new business blueprint for the 

company’s restructuring over the past 

three years. 

The growing trend of an IT 

industry environment shift from 

“E” (Internet) to “U” (Ubiquitous) 

has begun in earnest. Thus, the 

spotlight is focusing more and 

more on how fast IT enterprises 

are adapting by acquiring the 

capabilities needed in this 

changing environment by 

transforming their companies. 

In anticipation of such trends, 

Kolon Data Communication is 

poised to produce goods and 

services well-suited to the 

Ubiquitous environment and to 

leap into the next stage of 

becoming a specialized total IT 

service company. Byun Bo-kyung, 

president & CEO, Kolon Data 

Communication, underscores that 

companies cannot survive without being 

differentiated, adding that Kolon Data 

Communication’s new challenge is to 

transform itself such a specialized total IT 

service enterprise, with priority given to 

four business themes such as U City, U 

Home, U Healthcare and RFID (Radio 

Frequency Identification). 

Ubiquitousness as the future business 

engine 

Kolon Data Communication’s 

Ubiquitous business has devoted 

considerable efforts to seeking and 

selecting a business group befitting its 

capabilities by excluding product 

production participation such as chip and 

equipment etc. As a result, the company 

selected four business themes - namely, U 

City, U Home, U Healthcare, & RFID. 

Byun notes that Kolon Data 

Communication is enlarging organization, 

Strategic agreement between Kolon Data Communication and 

US Echelon. 

the personnel, and business performance 

by reorganizing into a U solution team and 

U Infra team, approaching 2006 as the first 

year of Ubiquitous business. 

On the business front, Kolon Data 

Communication has concluded a 

collaboration MOU (memorandum of 

understanding) in conjunction with the 

Ubiquitous part of IBM last year and has 

entered into a strategic alliance with the 

U.S. firm Echelon to make inroads into 

open-model control networks in February 

this year, Byun explained. 

In particular, the company has been 

progressing its preparations from last year, 

regarding Kolon Data Communication’s 

future business engine as ‘Ubiquitous’. 

First, Byun is proud that Kolon Data 

Communication has secured technology 

power and competitiveness with its 

Ubiquitous business cooperation MOU 

conclusion with IBM on May, 2005 and 

with the company’s participation 

in Busan U City Project’s 

Information Strategic Plan. 

On the basis of such 

experiences, Kolon Data 

Communication has preparations 

to participate in two or three local 

autonomous entities’ U City 

project business under way and 

Kolon is planning to raise its 

competitiveness by enlarging U 

City project participation in the 

coming months too. 

In the case of U Healthcare as 

well as U Learning field, results 

began to pay off from the second 

half of last year including 

‘Gangwon Province remote 

medical examination & treatment 

system’ etc. and the ‘Seoul 

National University Hospital Ubiquitous 

medical management system’s order 

followed in January this year. 

Byun expects that such results will be 

more brisk as Ubiquitous business begins 

in earnest this year. Besides, Kolon Data 

Communication is considering health 

consultation business through wire & 

wireless networks connected with medical 

institutions and health information service 

firms and plans to embark actively upon 

remote medical examination and treatment 

business. 

Byun stresses that U Home field also is 

one important area of its plans to begin in 

earnest from this year. As its strategic 

alliance with U.S. Echelon gets attained at 

the beginning of Feb. this year, he said that 

Kolon Data Communication will 

commercialize open control networksassociated 

technology and 

NES(Networked Energy Service), an 

intelligence-model remote inspection 

system, in Korea. 

Active Ubiquitous business unfolding 

In regard to this year’s propulsion 

strategy by its business division, Byun 

explained that Kolon Data Communication 

will provide the best service in concert 

with the best partner in its established 

system as well as solution business. 

He notes that in the case of Ubiquitous 

business, a new growth project, human and 

material system construction and fund will 

be thrown into three business themes 

exclusive of RFID field in earnest. In the 

event of RFID part, Byun judges it to be 

effective to begin in earnest after three 

business themes are on the track to a certain 

degree by means of a strategic alliance 

with established vendors such as IBM and 

Oracle. 

In the process of driving forward the 

Ubiquitous project, he explained that the 

connection with existing business as well 

as synergy creation, the core solution as 

well as an essential element technology 

security, and effective human resources 

operation as well as stable investment are 

important tasks. 

As to overseas business content and collaboration 

system construction, Kolon 

Data Communication agreed to make 

inroads into markets at home and abroad 

by beginning home production of NES 

(Networked Energy Service) in cooperation 

with Echelon. The two companies are 

further slated to establish “LonWorks 

Business Center” in conjunction with 

Echelon’s open control networks technology 

at the beginning of April this year at 

Kolon Data Communication’s headquarter. 

By establishing “LonWorks Business 

Center,” CEO Byun said that Kolon Data 

Communication is planning to attempt 

technology transfer and develop business 

model, referring to the 

fact that LonWorks technology’s 

competitiveness 

as well as marketability 

are good since it is recognized 

as global standard. 

As a result of profitoriented 

business structure, 

Kolon Data 

Communication’s debt 

ratio remains at the 60% 

level, a very low level in 

comparison with similar 

data communications 

firms and in addition is 

practicing a transparent 

management on the basis 

of such superior stable 

finance structure, continuing 

its efforts to provide 

customers as well as 

shareholders with high 

company value. 

In the process of business 

restructuring and 

eliminating past mistakes, 

Byun explains: 

“Our company went into 

the red over two years, 

but I believe that this 

year, Kolon Data 

Communication will 

gain a turnover of 150 

billion won (approx. 

$172 million), up 30% 

compared with the previous 

year, and a operating 

profit of 4.5 billion won 

(approx. $5.17 million)”. 

Kolon Data 

Communication is poised 

to become an IT leading 

enterprise which provides 

customers with the 

optimal IT service with 

its accumulated knowhow 

as an established IT 

system special company, 

market command and 

launch of active 

Ubiquitous business. 

Kolon Data Communication president & CEO Byun Bo-kyung 

“As a result of profit-oriented business 

structure, Kolon Data 

Communication’s debt ratio remains at 

the 60% level, a very low level in 

comparison with similar data 

communications firms and in addition 

is practicing a transparent 

management on the basis of such 

superior stable finance structure, 

continuing its efforts to provide 

customers as well as shareholders with 

high company value.” 



2006-03-12006.3.410:48AM페이지26001채널맥(3443-0701) 

Financing IT / Korean Re 

Korean Re, a Reinsurance Firm Poised 

to Rank Among Global Top 10 by 2020 

Korean Re is aiming to become one of 

the world’s top 10 reinsurers by 2020 

by bolstering international business 

and introducing advanced insurance services, 

according to a top manager of the 

reinsurance company. 


Times, Park Jong-won, chairman & president 

of Korean Re, said, "Right after successfully 

overcoming the 1997-1998 Asian 

financial crisis, Korean Re established the 

"Vision 2020," a mid and long-term strategy 

to enter ranks of the top 10 global reinsurers 

by that year." 

The strategy, among other things, calls 

for strengthening of the international business, 

expansion of capital volume, introduction 

of advanced insurance services and 

becoming more information and knowledge-oriented. 

"As a result of pursuing corporate 

reform based on the strategy, Korean Re 

has achieved an annual average growth of 

13.6% for the past seven years 

(1998~2004) and is currently ranked as the 

world’s 16th largest reinsurer," said the 62- 

year-old professional manager. 

In January 2006, Korean Re set up the 

"Vision 2010," a mid-way plan to attain the 

Vision 2020. Vision 

2010 is an execution 

plan to achieve the 

Vision 2020 ahead of 

schedule. 

"Under the mid-way 

plan, total assets and 

gross written premiums 

are expected to reach 5 

trillion won ($5.17 billion), 

making Korean 

Re the 12th reinsurer in 

the world by 2010," 

said Park. 

Asked about the 

2006 managerial strategy, 

Chairman Park said, 

"The current reinsurance 

business environment 

is extremely difficult as the Korean 

reinsurance market, the 8th largest in the 

world, has already become saturated with 

growth showing signs of stagnation. 

“As China has completely abolished the protection 

barriers for its reinsurance company China Re in 

2006, I think, Korean Re is able to seek new ways for 

growth in the giant potential market in Asia through 

active local marketing activities,” 

"Commercial lines such as fire and 

engineering insurance, which reap high 

returns, are losing their ground as domestic 

manufacturing firms are moving to countries 

that provide ‘cheap labor’, and most 

of the major global reinsurers have all 

Park Jong-won, chairman 

& president of Korean Re 

made a presence in the 

domestic reinsurance 

market, resulting in 

fierce competition, said 

Park. 

Noting that the year 

2006 will be a very 

important turning point 

for Korean Re, which 

has posted high growth 

for the past seven years, 

he said, "As a result, we 

set the construction of a 

core ability to become a 

top-notch company as 

the 2006 managerial target." 

Along with this, 

Korean Re will expand 

its growth base by exploring new domestic 

and overseas markets and actively creating 

demand for new products. In order to 

achieve the "Vision 2010," the company 

will also actively pursue a business strategy 

seeking an annual average growth of 

12% persistently, he said. 

In line with broadening the growth base, 

Korean Re will consistently pursue high 

profits through reasonable price policy and 

early risk management. 

At the same time, Korean Re will renovate 

its educational program as well as the 

IT system to improve its technical capabilities 

of reinsurance and ultimately, maximize 

productivity, said the chairman. 

On its business globalization plan to 

bolster competitiveness, Park said, "In 

terms of capital volume, Korean Re has 

remarkably strengthened its financial base 

by achieving a high annual average growth 

of 13% and handsome net profits." 

In particular, by consistently reserving 

50-60 billion won ($51.7-60.2 million) in 

net profit every year without capital 

increase, the company’s security ability, 

comprising total capital and reserve fund for 

emergent risk, are likely to have reached 

700 billion won ($724 million) in the fiscal 

year 2006, a 2.6-fold rise from 1998. 

By expanding the in-house reserve continuously 

through development of new 

products, bolstering of the business in the 

overseas markets and maintenance of net 

profits, it plans to expand the security ability 

to 1.5 trillion won ($1.5 billion) in 2010. 

"Korean Re has placed the 

focus of its overseas market 

strategy on reinforcing its leader 

position in the Asian market, and 

eventually leaping to become a 

leading global reinsurer," he 

said, adding that it will expand 

the portion of gross written premium 

from overseas business 

from 10% of the entire premium 

income and to 20% in 2010, and 

further to 50% in 2020. 

"As China has completely 

abolished the protection barriers 

for its reinsurance company 

China Re in 2006, I think, 

Korean Re is able to seek new 

ways for growth in the giant 

potential market in Asia through active local 

marketing activities," he said. 

By strengthening relations with major 

local reinsurers and actively attacking accident, 

motor, and liability insurance markets 

in China, Korean Re aims at expanding its 

sales by more than 30% every year, he said. 

Along with this, Korean Re plans to 

advance into the Asian engineering and 

EAR (erection-all-risks) markets by utilizing 

its accumulated experience and knowhow 

from the domestic CAR (constructionall-risks) 

market. 

In the European marine insurance and 

aviation markets it has enjoyed remarkable 

results, Korean Re will continue strengthening 

its position as a leader by providing various 

insurance services based on its knowledge 

and know-how from its 40-year 

domestic business operations, and eventually 

expand into the Latin American and the 

East European markets. 

The following are excerpts from an interview with Park Jong-won, chairman 

& president of Korean Re: 

Q: Korean Re has enjoyed sustainable growth in capital volume and 

security ability, while securing the No. 1 position in the domestic reinsurance 

market. How about the credit rating of Korean Re appraised by 

global credit rating agencies? 

A: A.M. Best, one of the world’s top credit rating agencies, has given Korean 

Re an "A- (excellent)" rating, citing the Korean reinsurer’s excellent business 

results, its leading role in the local market, ability to provide timely reinsurance 

products satisfying market needs, stable investment portfolio and effective distribution 

of risk. 

As Korean Re gained the "A-" rating for the 

fourth consecutive year from A.M. Best for its 

outstanding managerial ability, it has firmed up 

its leadership position in the local and overseas 

markets. 

Meanwhile, as foreign investors’ confidence 

in Korean Re has been also rising steadily, it is 

expected to have a superior position in its business 

relations with foreign reinsurers. 

In the domestic market, the market value of 

Korean Re has been going up gradually owing 

to its stable credit rating and robust growth in 

capital volume and aggressive overseas business 

strategy. 

Accordingly, the total market value of 

Korean Re amounted to 1 trillion won ($1.03 

billion) as of February 2006, the second biggest 

in the domestic insurance industry, and the foreign 

equity ratio in Korean Re expanded to 42%. 

Chairman Park(right) receives the management 

innovation grand prize from “Money Today”, a 

local daily newspaper. 

Q: Would you introduce your company’s win-win strategy, which 

ensures mutual profits between primary insurance and reinsurance 

companies? 

A: By developing new products such as D&O and CI (critical illness) insurance 

suitable for changing needs of the insurance market and providing them to 

local primary insurance companies, Korean Re is revitalizing the dormant primary 

insurance market and creating new reinsurance demands, offering more opportunities 

for growth to local insurers. 

Moreover, despite the hardening conditions of the global reinsurance market 

in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorists’ attacks on the United States, Korean Re has 

supported the stability of the Korean primary insurance companies by supplying 

sufficient reinsurance coverage. 

Q: Would you comment on your managerial philosophy? 

A: First of all, I place the emphasis on transparent management based on principle. 

Secondly, I think responsible management is very important. The CEO should 

take the initiative in advancing the company. 

Thirdly, reformative management is the only way for a company to survive fierce 

competition in a rapidly changing insurance market. 



2006-03-12006.3.410:48AM페이지28001채널맥(3443-0701) 

University / Kyung Hee Cyber Education 

Ubiquitous University Offering Superior Cyber Education 

Kyung Hee Cyber University’s 

advanced model of cyber education 

contents puts it in world level league 

With its unique cyber education contents 

development that differentiates 

it from other cyber universities, 

Kyung Hee Cyber University (KHCU) 

(www.khcu.ac.kr) is forging an advanced 

model of cyber education contents for 

online higher education in Korea. 

Through such advanced contents development 

by its own technological expertise, 

the Cyber University is contributing to 

enhancing Ubiquitous education as well as 

advancing the knowledge level of the 

Republic of Korea one notch higher. 

Against the backdrop of this renewed 

confidence lies above all Kyung Hee Cyber 

University’s abovementioned superiority 

in educational contents and competitiveness 

in education, according to President 

Park Kun-woo of KHCU who has been 

leading it for over two years and has served 

in the diplomatic arena during almost 40 

years, including as the Korean Ambassador 

to the United States as well as the chief delegate 

of the four-way talks 

“As for superior contents development 

of our cyber education, we have instructional 

designers who plan education and 

support professors in the Dept. of Online 

Education Support, web designers as well 

as programmers who design contents and 

programming, and up to media developers 

who are in charge of image production, 

contents editing and management”, Park 

elaborated. 

Its staff of 60 experts cooperates with 

professors and lecturers in doing research 

and developing cyber educational contents, 

according to Park. In comparison with 

another cyber university which relies on 

outsourcing, KHCU produces approximately 

200 contents a year in its six studios 

corresponding to 

about 200 pyeong 

(approx. 660m2) 

with its own technology, 

unique 

among cyber university 

circles. 

In addition, he 

pointed out 

“Besides hardware 

elements 

needed for cyber 

education, we 

support software 

related to lecture development and supply 

studios (including a virtual studio) for a 

sound environment for lecture development.” 

In a nutshell, Kyung Hee Cyber 

University’s superiority is set apart in that 

it offers supporting functions for professors’ 

online teaching (video chatting, realtime 

seminar, chatting room, asynchronous 

discussion room, SMS, mail, note, one-toone 

counseling, blog, community etc.) and 

learning management, as well as evaluation 

function that makes students possible 

to evaluate not only learning process but 

outcomes from educational programmes 

through LMS (Learning Management 

System) developed by KHCU. 

Way forward for an advanced country 

First of all, President Park proposed that 

cyber education can pave the way for an 

advanced country, explaining that carrying 

President Park Kun-woo of KHCU 

out online and offline education simultaneously 

is a global trend and in that regard 

there are areas where cyber education in 

Korea still is not activated. Concerning 

doubts about the university’s education 

quality or degree recognition, the president 

forcefully brushed off such misgivings, 

pointing out that for example, the matriculation 

rate into graduate school is pretty 

good in the case of Kyung Hee Cyber 

University and cyber education provides 

intensive courses without any waste rather 

than off-line education provided by general 

universities. 

Showing the excellence of the education 

competitiveness of Kyung Hee Cyber 

University, the ex-diplomat president 

added that KHCU has started credit 

exchange with Kyung Hee University, its 

mother University, since the first semester 

of 2004. With this, students can attend lectures 

up to 24 credits, 3 credits per semester 

without extra fees in Kyung Hee 

University. 

President Park, who believes that the 

credit exchange program gives the most 

efficient synergy effect in boosting students’ 

satisfaction, mentioned that 75 per- 

cent of Kyung Hee University students 

indicated in the questionnaire that asked 

credit exchange satisfaction they would 

recommend KHCU’s lectures to their 

friends & colleagues. He also added that it 

is undeniable that thanks to such reciprocal 

credit exchange program with Kyung Hee 

University, KHCU made great strides 

despite of its five years’ short history. 

Plus expanding and beefing up a ‘Ubiquitous 

learning system’ which makes their 

students attend lectures wherever and 

whenever they want through PDA or wireless 

handy PC, the Cyber University operates 

on one hand flexible and elastic educational 

courses and school affairs such as a 

curriculum map through which students 

can get information about subjects more indepth, 

in order to meet more diverse students’ 

needs. 

Hong Bong-hwa, the Dean of 

Department of e-Learning Support who sat 

in on the interview, said, “In the light of 

facts that we can’t meet their needs with 

uniform education and school affairs since 

the students of cyber university come from 

various ages, professions and experiences, 

Kyung Hee Cyber University is noteworthy 

by activating double major, minor 

major, change of major and early graduation 

system and by abolishing core courses 

to broaden student selections.” 

Pivotal role of top cyber education 

About carrying out the pivotal role 

of the best cyber education that represents 

Korea, President Park is proud 

to say that approx. 150 students out of 

600 first graduates in Feb. 2005 at 

KHCU went on to graduate school 

providing an example to new comers 

who were planning to enter KHCU. 

The president deserving the title of 

Cyber University missionary has a 

firm belief: “If we pursue education 

that utilizes characteristics and merits 

of cyber education, we can solve the 

restraints on the time and space 

which are the offline universities’ 

limitations, and we can seek after 

learner-centered education.” In conjunction 

with this, President Park points 

out: “For cyber education to occupy its 

firm position thoroughly, negative factors 

must not appear so that student can study 

free from all anxiety”. 

He continued, “I would say the future of 

cyber university is considerably bright considering 

Korea’s world best IT infrastructure”, 

adding that cyber education has high 

probability that it can solve diverse problems 

of offline universities in Korea and 

present the possibility of a new model of 

university education. 

In relation to Hanryu (Korean Wave) 

fever too, KHCU shows big enthusiasm 

with its plan to establish a Department of 

Korean Culture and Language from the 

Kyung Hee Cyber Univ.’s virtual chromakey studio(left), and library(right) 

Kyung Hee Cyber Univ. graduates, whose 

matriculation rate into graduate school is 

excellent. 

forthcoming Spring semester, 2006 plus 

setting up a study hall and installing ‘Cyber 

Korean Language Programme’ as part of a 

global cyber campus at Hanoi University 

of Foreign Studies in Vietnam, 

Ulaanbaatar University in Mongolia, 4 universities 

in the Philippines and the National 

Association for Korean Studies (NAKS) in 

U.S.A. 

With dissemination and development of 

Internet market in Korea, cyber education 

will become a learner-oriented education 

system, more systematically and diversely, 

he said. 

To develop KHCU as one of the world 

best cyber universities is likely to be the 

top priority task for it this year. 



2006-03-12006.3.410:48AM페이지30001채널맥(3443-0701) 

CeBIT 2006: The Global Stage for Latest 

Technologies of Digital Convergence 

Over 6,000 Companies Vying to Showcase High-Tech Products in Hannover 

CeBIT 

2006 will be held from March 9 to 15 at the 

Hannover Convention Center, Germany under the 

slogan of “Digital Solutions for Work & Life.” 

In its 21st year this year, CeBIT 2006 promises to be the stage for 

some 30 special exhibitions and 800 conferences in addition to the 

products display by more than 6,300 companies from over 70 nations. Of 

the participating companies, 3,300 are foreign companies of which 51.5%, 

or 1,700 firms, are from the Asia and Pacific region. The participation by 

Asian countries has been growing annually to such an extent that their 

rented space for displays this year has reached 300,000 square meters. In 

2005, more than 6,200 companies from over 70 countries took part in the 

annual event that attracted 480,000 visitors. 

The CeBIT exhibition, industry watchers say, is meaningful in the 

sense that it provides a forum for participants to share today’s industry 

issues and future visions not merely for the display of products itself. 


2006-03-12006.3.410:48AM페이지32001채널맥(3443-0701) 

CeBIT 2006 Hannover Korea@CeBIT 2006 

2006 

Hannover 

A Plethora of Digital Products, Solutions to be Showcased 

Digital Solutions for Work & Life 

At CeBIT 2006, organizers have placed emphasis on how the 

digital world can assist people improve their lifestyles during 

their working and leisure hours. To be introduced at the 

exhibition includes various business solutions and digital 

lifestyles based on up-to-date technologies including the 

communication network connecting working sites with home. 

The capping of CeBIT 2006 with the slogan of “Digital 

Solutions for Work & Life” is said to be derived from the 

important role information technologies play in not only home 

appliances but also in the fields of telematics and logistics. 

CeBIT 2006 Under a Variety of Themes 

At CeBIT 2006, exhibition halls are arranged according to 

major themes and are anticipated to win the favorable responses 

from visitors since various forums and special exhibitions are 

also scheduled to be held. 

In the Business Process Hall, business solutions and related 

products will be on display. These include a host of security 

devices and software in addition to RFID technologies that have 

recently been attracting much attention. 

In the Communications Hall, which displays telephones, 

mobile phones and network-related products, a special 

exhibition dubbed ‘VoIP@CeBIT and WLAN-World’ will be 

held under the theme of ‘Telematik, Navigation, Logistik and 

Handy-TV.’ 

In the Digital Equipment and Systems Hall, HDTVs as well 

as personal and mobile storage systems will highlight today’s 

digital entertainment. 

In the Banking & Financing Hall, business solutions for 

Major Items Displayed at the Korean Pavilion 

Items No. Major Participants 

Navigation equipment 

Diasonic, D.O.Tel, 3Soft, I-Bead, Elentec, SB Telekom, Dizipia 

PMP (Portable Media Player) 12 Ugcom, Oracom, 3Soft, PlayM, Maycom, Enox, Elentec, Maxian, Neosol, 

Multi-channel, Fusionsoft, Dizipia 

MP3 player 24 Ugcom, Diasonic, Stormblue, Bluzen, Oracom, I-bead, Technovas, PlayM, 

Maycom, Enox, S-Cam, Multi-channel, Hyunwon, Ugcom, Diasonic, 

Stormblue, Bluzen, Oracom, I-bead, Technovas, PlayM, Seju Engineering 

LCD TV 10 Sodiff, KTV Global, Atec, GPNC, 3 Gate, Namjootech, Pavonine, Nexio, 

Dong Yang, Indtek, 

Bluetooth products (wireless 11 KTV Global, Stromblue, Kyungjin, Ugcom, Sungjin Techwin, AsianaIDT, 

headsets, and others) 

SB Telekom, Ufosys, PlayM, Sprite, Hanho Electronics 

Security products (fingerprint 4 Wareplus, Green Optics, Ufosys 

readers, locks & others) 

DMB equipment 9 Pixtree 

Internet phones 2 Wooksung Electronics, Kyunggee Electronics 

RFID systems 4 ASB, Duali, Wareplus, Keico 

DVDs 3 DTS, Ellion, Dinss 

multimedia web authoring tools 2 Parasys, Investclub 

PC accessories 20 PC Accessories 

enhancing the convenient use of various equipment and devices 

employed by financial institutions including banks will be on 

special display under the slogan of ‘Bank-Finance-Systems.’ 

In the Public Sector Parc, public and academic institutions 

will take part and make presentations concerning geographical 

information systems. In addition, special exhibitions are 

scheduled to be held under the theme of ‘eHealth.’ 

In the Future Parc, research and academic institutions will be 

introducing new ideas through a forum for discussions entitled 

‘future talk.’ 

At CeBIT 2006, special emphasis has also been placed on 

SMEs. Through the “Forum CeBIT Mittelstand,” numerous 

seminars and discussions are scheduled to be held with the 

participation of business leaders, politicians and journalists. 

Furthermore, a variety of products and solutions for SMEs will 

be on display. In addition, an exhibition hall has been prepared 

for merchants in the business of trading IT products, home 

appliances as well as photo shop and office supplies. 

For some time, CeBIT has won the acclaim as a prominent 

stage for meetings with corporate leaders around the globe. In 

the list of programs for ‘Keynote Speeches’ to be presented 

during the exhibition, Anand Chandrasekher, vice president of 

Intel, and Guerrino De Luca, CEO of Logitech, have been 

invited to deliver keynote speeches. 

Another event which is anticipated to draw much attention at 

CeBIT is ‘Digital Living’ through which visitors can operate 

digital products and experience future technologies. 

Market Trends at CeBIT 2006 

At this year’s CeBIT, digital products with various functions 

originating from digital convergence are set 

to make conspicuous showing. The 

combining of home entertainment with 

mobile technologies, in particular, is 

expected to make a striking debut since it has 

become possible to adopt more innovative 

products and services thanks to the continued 

growth of the cell phone market and the 

increased accessibility of the broadband 

Internet. 

Portable Multimedia Players Lead Home 

Electronic Products 

It is forecast that PMPs (Portable Media 

Players), mounted with TV screens and 

navigation functions that include those of 

DVDs, HDDs, and MP3s, will lead the home 

entertainment market. 

DMB and DVB-H Vying for the Portable TV Market 

The adoption of DMB for its trial service during the 2006 

World Cup soccer games in the five German States of Bayern, 

North Rhine-Westphalia, Saarland, Berlin, and Brandenburg has 

attracted heightened interest. This is because its success is much 

anticipated to provide an important turning point in deciding the 

future course of the mobile TV market. 

LCD & PDP TVs Mounted with HD-DVDs and HDTVs 

Due to the advent of HD-DVD players and HDTVs with 

1920x1080 panels, LCD & PDP TVs capable of performing the 

functions of these new models are expected to post rapid growth 

from the early stages of the high-resolution digital broadcasting. 

The Advent of 3.5G Mobile Phones with HSDPA Functions 

Following T-Mobile’s successful launch of high-speed 

mobile communication utilizing HSDPA (High-Speed 

Downlink Packet Access), the third-generation technology of 

Nokia, a trial telecom service at the speed of 1.8Mbps, a speed 

that is comparable to that of ADSL, is scheduled to be launched 

this month. 

Korea Pavilion 

The Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA), 

which has participated in CeBIT since 2002, will take part in 

this year’s event by organizing the Korean delegation to the 

Korean Pavilion. 

According to Han Jong-woon, director-general of KOTRA, 

the Korean Pavilion will be displaying high-tech multimedia 

products at 3 convention halls (Halls 22, 23 & 25) including the 

one (Hall 25) set aside for the exclusive display of display products. 

A total of 108 companies, an increase of 13 from last year, 

will be participating in the Korean Pavilion on an exhibition 

floor space of 1,467 square meters. 

In the midst of growing expectations for a substantial growth 

of the home electronics market in Germany on the occasion of 

the 2006 World Cup, it is anticipated that Korean IT SMEs can 

engage in lively consultations for export. Mindful of the 

importance the occasion carries, the Korean Pavilion will be 

housing a special booth for the exclusive demonstration of DMB 

service. 

At the Korean Pavilion, new models of MP3 players and 

PMPs that reflect today’s trend for convergence will also be 

displayed with the participation of 24 and 12 Korean firms, 

respectively. Bluetooth models including wireless headsets will 

Han Jong-woon, director-general 

of KOTRA’s Exhibition & Convention Team 

also be presented by 9 companies. In the meantime, highdefinition 

LCD TVs with fancy designs from ten companies 

such as KTV Global are expected to capture the hearts and 

minds of buyers. 

Invest Korea Fair for IT Products and Services 

On March 13, Korea will be holding an investment fair at 

Hanover Convention Center from 10:30 a.m. for a two-hour run 

in order to boost Germany’s investment in Korea’s IT industry. 

Chung Dong-soo, head of Invest Korea, is scheduled to 

deliver introductory remarks on Korea’s IT industry and Chu 

Woo-shik, head of investor relations division at Samsung 

Electronics, will give a keynote speech on Samsung’s strategy 

for future growth. In addition, Siemens and Rohde &Schwarz 

Int’l GmbH of Germany are scheduled to deliver success stories 

of investing in Korea. 

Mr. Han said that the trade promotion agency and OAV, the 

German association for friendship between Germany and East 

Asia, as well as the German Chambers of Commerce in 

Hamburg, Hanover, Lubeck and Kiel have been striving to 

search for German companies interested in investing in Korea. 



2006-03-12006.3.410:48AM페이지34001채널맥(3443-0701) 

CeBIT 2006 Hannover 

Korea@CeBIT 2006 

DMB Spreads Wings 

to Overseas markets 

With the inauguration of the 

“Wibro, DMB Overseas 

Promotion Bureau” in Korea, 

backed by the strong support of the 

Ministry of Information & Communication 

(MIC), Wibro as well as DMB are poised 

to spread their wings to the world. 

In the meanwhile, DMB (digital 

multimedia broadcasting), developed by 

domestic technology, is set to launch pilot 

broadcasting for the Germany World Cup 

relay in 2006 with the State of Bavaria, 

Germany on April, 2005. Since then too, 

DMB has been going from one success to 

another overseas, with the pilot project 

announcement with England in September, 

2005, pilot broadcasting commencement in 

France on Dec. 2005 as well as 

broadcasting commencement in China and 

Korea’s DMB shows its edge in sports game relay and disaster warning systems. 

Efforts focused on commercial broadcasting and services, using high-profile sports 

and marketing events as marketing tools 

overseas inroads into Canada in January 

this year, respectively. 

Likewise, WiBro also which succeeded 

in its standardization for the first time in 

the world at the end of last year, made 

inroads into Canada along with DMB on 

Jan. this year. 

To devote the ministry’s heart and soul 

to U-IT839 diffusion, MIC has newly 

established the Wibro, DMB Overseas 

Promotion Bureau within its ministry, of 

which Director General Lee Jae-Hong is in 

charge. 

Upbeat outlook for overseas inroads 

The newly established Bureau’s Chief 

Director General Lee stresses that its 

establishment is very timely in that this 

will be an important year to serve as a 

watershed for Korea’s DMB or Wibro 

overseas inroads. He was very upbeat on 

the outlook of Korea’s DMB or Wibro 

service’s overseas inroads, adding that we 

can as much as one want if we can 

encroach on 30% of world mobile market 

at the minimum. 

First off, Lee emphasizes that the 

Wibro, DMB Overseas Promotion Bureau 

wants to approach oversea markets by 

combining the cutting edges of DMB and 

Wibro. Accordingly in the case of Europe, 

DMB is expected to compete with DVB-H 

mode backed by Nokia, according to Lee. 

The Director General elaborates 

further: “It is mistakenly thought by 

European broadcasting companies as well 

as mobile network operators there that 

DMB is a free-charge broadcasting 

without profit model whereas DVB-H 

holds a profit model with a host of 

channels.” DVB-H may have two or three 

times more channels, but its framework is 

inferior in comparison with DMB and 

furthermore DVB-H is weak in sports 

game relay, he explains. 

In contrast, DMB can show its edge not 

only in sports game relay but also in 

disaster warning systems plus being able 

to provide users with roughly 100 

programs, such as cooking, travel, golf, 

badook and so on, which satisfy users 

tastes through Wibro. Mr. Lee underscores 

that such combination model is the most 

differentiated edge of Korean DMB and 

Korea is expected to launch such mobile 

models during the third quarter of this 

year. 

During the 3G Congress held in 

Barcelona, Spain last month or CeBIT 

Germany which will be held in Hanover 

this month, the Director General notes that 

MIC is revealing Korea’s DMB or Wibro 

promotion activities with such a strategy. 

Keeping an eye on the fact that 

European mobile network operators are 

keenly interested in business opportunities 

including profit models for DMB, Lee 

pointed out that DMB could create new 

revenue by attracting customers by early 

introduction of mobile TV plus additional 

data traffic like return channel and data 

service. 

As for why DMB should be a chosen 

mobile network operator, he further names 

brand differentiation to be able to satisfy 

the customer demand on the multimedia 

content in consideration of the fact that 

digitalization leads to the convergence of 

broadcasting and telecom, which fulfills 

consumers demands for multimedia at low 

cost. He also introduces interactive service 

like t-commerce, traffic and travel 

information and broadcasting early 

disaster warning information as new 

services that DMB offers. 

Massive information in real-time, bidirectional 

& cost-effectiveness 

In this regard, Mr. Lee insists that 

Korea’s terrestrial DMB particularly holds 

Director General Lee Jae-hong, 

Wibro, DMB Overseas 

Promotion Bureau, MIC. 

many edges in terms of offering massive 

information in real-time, being bidirectional 

with existing communication 

networks, and cost-effectiveness. 

For example, the necessity of a disaster 

warning system with which Korea’s 

terrestrial DMB shows its edge according 

to Lee, is because disasters (natural/nonnatural) 

are happening everywhere and 

intimidating quality of life, immediate 

alarm and rescue system helps to reduce 

the damage, and disaster warning system 

requires immediate transmission of 

message etc. 

As to these multi-faceted benefits of 

DMB, Director General Lee summarizes: 

“It provides customers with better quality 

AV service under mobile environment and 

value-added diverse interactive services 

anytime & anywhere. For industry, it offers 

new mega business opportunity and contents 

for mobile multimedia and can boost 

the digital equipment markets. In terms of 

service provider, it means less investment 

for mobile services and new explosive revenue 

source plus leading the convergence 

service of telecommunications and broadcasting.” 

In regard to Wibro’s marketing plan as 

well, the Director General said that MIC 

will concentrate its promotion efforts on 

increasing its commercialization countries, 

mentioning that the best overseas 

promotion service is to start commercial 

service in as soon as possible in Korea 

About the forthcoming Germany World 

Cup too, which will kick off in June, this 

year, he expressed big expectations, 

adding that the ministry’s Wibro, DMB 

Overseas Promotion Bureau is planning to 

show off Korea’s technical excellence by 

means of pilot broadcasting there. 

Korea must approach overseas markets by combining the cutting edges of DMB and 

WiBro. 



2006-03-12006.3.410:48AM페이지36001채널맥(3443-0701) 



2006 

Hannover 

KOSA Leads SW Firms 

Delegation to CeBIT 2006 

Korean Pavilion to showcase 20 software SMEs from Korea 

The Korea Software Industry Association (KOSA) 

will be leading the Korean delegation of 20 software 

companies to the 2006 CeBIT taking place in 

Germany from March 9-16, for their display of software 

solutions at the 25 booths of the Korean Pavilion. 

CeBIT is a comprehensive IT exhibition where more 

than 600,000 visitors and buyers from over 60 countries 

will gather to get a first-hand glimpse of the latest technologies 

and products in the IT field. Moreover, the exhibition, 

which attracts more than 100,000 people from the 

news media, has become a world-renowned stage for IT 

products and services presenting the future trend of the 

market. Since the 1990s, the number of participants to the 

event has continued to grow and today the exhibition 

boasts 27 exhibition halls. In 2005, a total of 6,411 companies 

and over 500,000 buyers took part in the exhibition, 

thus living up to its reputation as the world’s largest 

exhibition for the IT industry. 

The Korean software companies that will be housed at 

the Korean Pavilion will be displaying their latest innovative 

solutions and services. These include embedded 

solutions, mobile solutions, RFIDs, wireless communication 

devices as well security and multimedia products. 

At the Korean Pavilion, the Korean delegation will be 

actively engaging in PR activities promoting Korea’s IT 

industry and the u-IT839 project by playing Korean IT 

promotion videos on a large screen installed at its PR 

booth on Hall #3 under the slogan of Dynamic u-Korea. 

An official of KOSA said, “Since 2003, some 20 companies 

have been participating in the Korean Pavilion. In 

order to help them achieve good results, we have been 

providing them with market information and buyer 

search services prior to the event. Moreover we plan to 

publicize them and provide one-to-one business matching 

services.” 

List of Software Companies participating at the 

Korean Pavilion 

CeBIT 2006 Korea Pavilion Participants for Software 

Company Name Booth Number & Website Products 

1 Billit A31-G www.billit.co.kr IP Contact Center Solutions ( IP-PBX, IP-IVR, IP-Recorder, CTI middleware) 

2 Ceyon Tech. Co., Ltd. A31H www.ceyon.co.kr RFID Reader, RFID Writer 

3 Digent Co., Ltd A31-F www.digent.com Fingerprint Authentication Security Software/Hardware 

4 E-star Labratories, Inc. A31-I www.estarlab.com Digital Audio Player 

5 emFrontier, Inc? A31-D www.emfrontier.com Warehouse Management System 

6 Haansoft A31-C www.hannsoft.com WITOOLS, UDS(Ubiquitous Document Service) 

7 Hampex A31-K www.hampex.com Symbian Smartphone Solution, T-DMB receivers, Bluetooth module, Mobile AD 

8 iCube A31-A www.icube.co.kr Digital Media Adaptor, Wireless TV Tuner, Digital Network Audio Player 

9 Jinwoo Soft Innovation? A31-M www.jinwoo.co.kr Taxi Telematics 

10 Korea Wisenut A31-O www.wisenut.co.kr Integrated Search Engine 

11 MarkAny Inc. A31-Q www.markany.com Document Security Solution, Multimedia Security Solution 

12 MediaSolution, Inc. A31-E www.mediasol.co.kr Kiosk Contents Authoring & Remote Management Tool 

13 Mobile Compia A31-B www.mobilecompia.co.kr rugged,super slim Industrial PDA “M3” for enterprise mobile applications 

14 Nainworks. Co., Ltd A31-L www.nainworks.co.kr Multimedia Player, VR Solution base on Movie Picture 

15 Nexuschips Co. Ltd A31-S www.nexuschips.com Graphic Accelerator Chip Solution for Mobile Device 

16 Qtelsoft Co.,Ltd. A31-N www.Qtel.co.kr Web3D Virtual Reality Total Solution (Qavatar MA, Q3D.net) 

17 Rsupport Co.,Ltd. A31-T www.rsupport.com Web-based Remote Support Solutions 

18 TheMAP A31-J www.themap.co.kr CNS/ Multimedia Device 

19 Urirang World Co., Ltd. A31-P www.urirang.co.kr e-Book Solution, Web Coworker 

20 ViaScope Int A31-R www.viascope.com Secure IP Address Management 



2006-03-12006.3.410:48AM페이지38001채널맥(3443-0701) 



2006 

Hannover 

Opening the Door 

to the 4G Era 

Samsung takes the lead in globalizing 4G technology with Korea’s WiBro 

Samsung Electronics is at the forefront of standardization of 

the 4G (fourth generation) mobile communication, whose 

commercialization is expected by 2010. 

A total of 15 Samsung officials are now participating in seven 

groups related to third and fourth generation technologies, such 

as 3GPP and WWRF, as chairman members, leading the activities 

for standardization of the 4G mobile communications, 

Samsung Electronics President Lee Ki-tae said. 

The world’s third-largest cell phone producer has actively 

engaged in R&D activities concerning the 4G mobile communications 

and already secured 220 patents related to the 4G mobile 

communications. 

The 4th generation refers to a next-generation wireless access 

technology that promises an ultra high-speed mobile connection 

to the Internet for people on the move. 

The velocity of 4G is expected to reach 100 megabits per second 

(Mbps) on the road, more than 100 times faster than today’s 

mobile Internet, and 1Gbps at a standstill. 

It is fast enough to materialize long overdue pledges about a 

ubiquitous society by offering services such as video conferencing 

and downloading large-volume data with cell phones. 

Related to this, Samsung holds the 4G forum annually to discuss 

the vision and strategy of the futuristic platform, Lee said. 

For standardization of mobile communication, a total of 165 

Samsung officials, including 40 researchers in Samsung’s four 

overseas research centers, are engaging in R&D activities. 

4G forum standardization organizations/forum status 

At the Samsung 4G Forum 2005, the third of its kind, held at 

Shilla Hotel in Jeju Island on Aug. 29, meanwhile, 140 representatives 

from electronics makers, manufacturers and standardization 

organizations in 20 countries attended. 

Lee said, “Samsung 4G Forum has been developed into an 

international event as a growing number of countries are paying 

keen attention to the 4G mobile communication technology.” At 

the forum, relevant people from North America, Europe, Asia, 

Latin America, Australia and Africa participated. 

Samsung Electronics suggested the direction for development 

of 4G mobile communication technologies, including wireless 

interface, at the first Samsung 4G Forum in 2003 under the subject, 

“Global strategy of the 4G communication.” 

At the second Samsung 4G Forum in 2004, Samsung sought 

concrete ways for development of 4G mobile communication 

technologies under the subject, “Migration paths towards 4G networks.” 

The world’s top organizations for 4G standardization are 

International Telecommunication Union (ITU) comprising 649 

member companies from 189 countries and its affiliate ITU-R 

WP8F. 

The ITU and ITU-R WP8F issue a final approval to a draft for 

4G standardization, which was set by country and region, playing 

a role to establish global standardization. 

By region, Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) and 

European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) represent 

Europe, whereas 

Asia-Pacific 

Telecommunity (APT) 

By Region 

Global ITU -It is the biggest standardization organization in the IT sector. 

It approves sizes related to IT in the world. 

Europe WWRF -The most influential 4G international forum, led by Nokia, Ericsson and Siemens. 

Asia-Pacific region APT -Communication-related organization seeking common interests in the 

Asia-Pacific regions. 

By Country 

South Korea NGMC Forum -It engages in study on Korea’s 4G and decides standardization strategy, 

led by the Ministry of Information and Communication. 

-Samsung chairs the subcommittee of system & technology. 

Japan mITF -It is an organization with the purpose of 4G study and standardization, 

led by the Japanese government. 

China FuTURE -It engages in study of wireless communication under the Chinese 

government’s 863 tasks of the 10th five-year plan (2001-2005). 

and its subsidiary APT 

Wireless Forum 

(AWF) represent Asia 

and Pacific regions. 

The Ministry of 

Information and 

Communication also 

plans to develop a test 

system to implement 

4G technology by 

Samsung Electronics plans to create a successful image of Korea’s IT through 

globalization of WiBro. 

2007, leading the global standardization and relevant markets. 

Along with this, Next Generation Mobile Communication 

(NGMC) Forum, which was established jointly by the ministry 

and domestic major communication providers and makers in 

2003, is seeking close cooperation with the Japanese and 

Chinese 4G standardization organizations “mITF” and 

“FuTURE,” leading the standardization in the Asian and Pacific 

regions. 

In the meantime, Samsung aims at leading the global 4G technology 

based on WiBro, the locally developed portable Internet. 

With the global interest in the next-generation mobile communication 

technology WiBro growing, Samsung has begun to 

push for globalization of WiBro. 

The electronics maker has set 2006 as the first year to expand 

the WiBro business to the world in earnest. 

In 2006, Samsung plans to commercialize the WiBro business 

in earnest and supply WiBro to major communication carriers in 

the world. 

After concluding a contract with Sprint Nextel of the United 

States, BT of Britain, KDDI of Japan and TVA of Brazil last 

year, Samsung has been making a strong push for commercialization 

of the WiBro business. 

Accordingly, Samsung’s WiBro is expected to spread to the 

five Oceans and the six Continents this year. 

President Lee said, “Since the nation’s successful hosting of 

the APEC, major communication carriers in the world have been 

expressing keen interest in WiBro, requesting Samsung to offer 

the WiBro exemplary service. As a result, the nation’s WiBro 

service is expected to rush into foreign markets this year.” 

Samsung has completed all necessary preparations 

for commercialization of WiBro, including 

terminal and system. Samsung WiBro is now 

equipped with various conditions to advance into 

foreign markets. 

As WiBro was officially adopted as the mobile 

WiMax, the broadband wireless access international 

technology standard, in December last year, 

WiBro is expected to emerge as one of the world’s 

communication technologies in earnest from this 

year. 

For international standardization of WiBro, 

Samsung exerted best efforts by advancing its 

researchers to the board of directors of WiMax 

Forum and the council of chairmen. 

If WiBro secures its firm position as an international 

standard technology, South Korea will 

secure standard of the world’s mobile Internet 

market, raising the possibility of grasping the leadership 

in the world’s third-generation mobile communication 

market, Lee said. 

“Through globalization of WiBro, the pure 

locally developed communication technology, we 

will create a successful myth of Korea’s IT. 2006 will be the first 

year for globalization of WiBro,” said the professional manager. 

WiBro is the homegrown portable Internet that enables people 

on the move to remain hooked up to the Internet at the speed 

of the current fixed-line broadband. It boasts of the highest data 

transmission speed among mobile communication technologies. 

In case of succeeding in commercializing WiBro, Samsung 

can download 36-page newspaper within 0.7 seconds and the 

MP3 10 melodies within 24 seconds, said Lee. 

Meanwhile, market analysts said that President Lee has made 

a turning point for Samsung to create the second CDMA myth 

with the successful demonstration of the commercializationlevel 

WiBro at the APEC. 

Related to this, Lee said, “In the past, some people were skeptical 

about WiBro. However, I had confidence in the possibility 

of success and poured all of my passion for WiBro. 

He was always in the forefront of the project to develop and 

demonstrate WiBro along with developers. 

“In the global communication market in the past, Samsung 

with bare hands had to fight with foreign rivals armed with 

knives and guns. With the development of WiBro, however, we 

are now equipped with a wooden sword. Although it is a somewhat 

underestimated metaphorical expression, the important 

thing is that we now have a competitive technology we can boast 

in the royalty competition.” 

He said that WiBro is a new blue ocean creating the superspeed 

wireless data market and the gate of the fourth Internet 

revolution. 



2006-03-12006.3.410:48AM페이지40001채널맥(3443-0701) 



2006 

Hannover 

Latest Trends in 

Multimedia Technology 

At CeBIT 2006, LG Electronics (LG) will be presenting its 

latest developments in multimedia technology, including 

Plasma TV with built-in DVR, HSDPA phone, terrestrial 

and satellite DMB phone and Dual-Core Notebook PC. 

LG’s exhibition theme this year is “Life as Masterpiece.” To 

emphasize the theme, the company exhibits the gold-rimmed 

71-inch plasma TV, which is the most expensive TV in the 

world, in the fa?ade of the booth and installs moving walls 

consisted of thirty 50-inch plasma TVs and eight 42-inch TVs. 

In February, LG won iF Design Awards in 11 categories and 

the company showcases the most of them in CeBIT 2006. 

Highlights include: 

- Mobile TV Phone: For CeBIT 2006, LG showcases mobile 

TV Phones with all existing methods of DVB-H, MediaFLO, 

Satellite and Terrestrial DMB Phone. Especially, V9000 is the 

definite all-in-one multimedia device. With its unique wideswing 

screen, users can watch TV programs for up to three 

hours consecutively and can even record programs for up to one 

LG Electronics’ V9000 is the definite all-in-one multimedia device. 

hour. Utilizing LG’s own DAB/DMB receiving and AV 

decoding chip, this model provides perfect picture quality on a 

high-resolution screen. This phone also features a 3D surround 

sound system, mega-pixel AF CMOS camera, MP3, TV capture 

and Bluetooth. 

- 3G Phone (U8500 Roberto Cavalli Edition): The handset is 

the world’s slimmest 3G music clamshell phone (As of the end 

of 2005) with a thickness of 18.2mm. The model features user 

memory with a twenty MP3 song capacity, buttons on the 

outside for easy control of the MP3 player function, video 

calling and a 1.3 mega-pixel camera. 

- Multimedia Phone (KG920): the world’s slimmest GSM 5 

mega-pixel handset is super slim at just 18mm. It adopts an 

innovative Twist & Slim design that features a real digital 

camera. This world’s thinnest handset incorporates an auto 

focus CCD camera and a 2-inch QVGA LCD screen for VGAlevel 

video at 30 fps (frames per second). Strengthening this 

camera function is a strobe flash, half-shutter and lens cover. 

During the exhibition, LG plans to invite famous dancers and 

present exciting performances expressing the image of LG’s 

latest handsets to the booth visitors 

- Dual-Core Notebook PC: The notebook PC is equipped 

with 2 core chip installed to one CPU, which is optimum for 

multi-tasking. LG also exhibits the lightweight Notebook PC 

(TX Series) 

- Plasma TV with Built-in DVR: The built-in Digital Video 

Recorder has the capability of storing up to 40 hours of digital 

standard-definition programming. It also has continuous 

automatic recording in 1-hour intervals which offers seamless 

viewing experience 

LG will also showcase HSDPA phone, LCD TVs, LCD 

monitors and the world’s first “Wall-Mounted Projector”. 

LG Electronics, Inc., (www.lge.com) is the world’s major 

force and technology innovator in electronics, information and 

communications products. The company has more than 67,000 

employees working in 77 subsidiaries and marketing units 

around the world. LG Electronics is the world’s largest producer 

of CDMA handsets, DVD players, optical storage devices, air 

conditioners, canister vacuum cleaners and micro ovens. With 

total revenue of more than USD 35 billion (non-consolidated), 

LG’s V9000 provides perfect picture quality on a high-resolution screen. 

LG Electronics is comprised of four business units: Mobile 

Communications, Digital Appliance, Digital Display and Digital 

Media. 

About LG Electronics, Inc. 

LG Electronics, Inc., (KSE: 06657.KS) is the world’s 

major force and technology innovator in electronics, 

information and communications products. The company 

has more than 67,000 employees working in 77 subsidiaries 

and marketing units around the world. LG Electronics is the 

world’s largest producer of CDMA handsets, DVD players, 

optical storage devices, air conditioners, canister vacuum 

cleaners and micro ovens. With total revenue of more than 

USD 35 billion (non-consolidated), LG Electronics is 

comprised of four business units: Mobile Communications, 

Digital Appliance, Digital Display and Digital Media. 

For more information please visit www.lge.com. 



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2006 

Hannover 

New Approaches to e-Trade 

and Home Security 

Invest Club sees new opportunities to lead growth of e-Trade and 

home security markets 

Invest Club aims to lead the e-trade and home 

security industry based on its high-quality products 

and customer-oriented strategy, Lee Sungmo, 

president of the company said. 

Invest Club has been focusing on brisk marketing 

activities aimed at companies possessing highquality 

technology or products and small and 

medium-sized companies facing difficulties in 

finding out buyers, he said. 

E-trade has been rapidly globalized, away from 

the local retail and wholesale concept, and trade 

procedures have been simplified gradually, affected 

by Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), NAFTA 

and the EU. It also facilitates easy access to 

automatization programs. 

Accordingly, Invest Club plans to focus on its 

overseas marketing activities, including the United 

States, China, India, Brazil and Russia, he said. 

With differentiated strategy in terms of convenience, quality, 

confidence and safety, Invest Club will attract best companies as 

its members and attack high-class markets in the United States 

this year, he said. 

Through Martbiznet, it plans to engage in active marketing 

aimed at various consumers, including retail shops, in addition to 

existing large-scale trading companies. 

Invest Club will make best efforts to make ordering, settlement 

and delivery systems between countries easier than before, 

satisfying consumers’ demands for buying domestic and foreign 

goods directly. 

Related to this, it will build a shopping mall where smallscale 

retailers and wholesalers to export or import goods directly 

through an electronics settlement system, he said. 

By continuously securing talented people and improving 

President Lee Sung-mo, 

Invest Club 

technology competitiveness, Invest Club will 

develop up-to-date products, including cyber 

trade automatic programs, solutions, IP-based 

video security equipment & solutions, and fingerprint 

recognition door lock. 

At the same time, it will exert all-out efforts to 

enhance technology competitiveness through 

active R&D investment and a technology center. 

To become a frontier enterprise opening an 

“online silk road,” Invest Club is developing an 

e-market place, which enables enterprises to trade 

with foreign partners very easily, almost like 

trading at home. 

Through the e-market place, users can see 

their trading partner’s factory in a foreign country 

at anytime easily, he explained. 

At present, it sells a great number of security 

cameras and fingerprint recognition door locks. In the future, 

Invest Club will graft such hardware onto e-market place, being 

reborn as a trade solution suitable for global trade environment 

under the FTA. 

This technology is the world’s first and new technology, he 

said adding that the products will be more useful for traders in 

the future as e-Biz trend is spreading rapidly nowadays. 

Invest Club, which was inaugurated in 2001 as a trading company, 

developed global e-market place, which reflected knowhow 

of international trade. 

It is also an e-commerce web solution venture company, 

which signed a contract with World Trade Center (WTC) to 

exclusively supply trade-related web solutions by 2011. 

It produced online Martibiznet, which makes it possible to 

engage in international trade through online, optical sensor-type 

fingerprint recognition door lock, called Libero alpha, and IP- 

based video security equipment and solution, dubbed seeQ on 

and exports the products to the United States, Japan, China, 

Brazil and other countries. 

At the same time, it is now carrying out eBiz-related government-sponsored 

projects with the Ministry of Commerce, 

Industry and Energy, Small and 

Medium Business Administration and 

three universities. 

Invest Club won a variety of 

awards and certificates, including 

KISTI, K mark, and citation from the 

prime minister for technology reform 

at home. 

It also acquired such international 

certificates as UNDP and ISO14001 

for its advanced technology. Thanks 

to its state-of-the-art technology, it 

succeeded in exporting web solutions 

to WTCBIZNETWORK, a subsidiary 

of the WTC. 

Since its establishment in August 

2001 with a capital of 100 million 

won, Invest Club has enjoyed surplus 

management, posting a double-digit 

growth rate in both sales and net profits. 

Its total sales increased from 750 

million won in 2003 to 6.1 billion won 

in 2004 and further to 6.4 billion won 

in 2005 and its net profits expanded 

from 80 million won to 160 million 

won and again to 170 million won 

during the corresponding period. 

Main products of Invest Club are 

as follows. 

SeeQ on is the most innovative IP surveillance integrated 

solutions based on high-speed Internet. 

The core technologies, MPEG4PLUS, AnyPnP, NetSecurity, 

Multi-streaming, are implemented into every single system. 

Seeqon-nc300 Seeqon-ns100 

Libero 

It is a remote video/audio monitoring system over IP network 

corresponding to today’s network evolution, even supporting 

mobile terminal such as hand-held devices. 

It has hybrid IP surveillance capability accommodating both 

analog and digital camera signal so as to enable even existing 

analog based application to be integrated 

into new digital one. 

Libero is a world renowned futureoriented 

door lock system for its 

sophisticated and artistic design, which 

is noticeably appreciated with its outstanding 

durability against external 

shock or impact because of the die 

casting system made of super aluminum 

alloy in German and Japanese 

market. 

In addition, Libero guarantees 

99.99% fingerprint matching with the 

help of high-performance DSP in optical 

sensor way, which shows off not 

only extremely fast fingerprint retrieving 

but accurate matching on account 

of our high-quality image processing 

technology. 

It boasts of perfect security supported 

by optical sensor, ultra-fast and perfect 

recognition of fingerprints, useroriented 

conveniences such as voice 

indication, external power supply support 

for emergency, and least power 

consumption with the help of embedded 

power-saving circuit. 

Martibiznet, basically, was 

designed to enable even e-trade 

through extending the concept of conventional Internet-based 

shopping mall. 

The product evolution for years now comes into existence as 

a marvelous business partner for any would-be e-trader making 

use of Martbiznet powerful system functions and utilities. 



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2006 

Hannover 

Poised to Capture 

Overseas Markets 

MultiChannel Labs, emerges as a leader of the 21C digital convergence 

revolution by developing new technologies matching market trends 

MultiChannel is better known in overseas markets rather than at home, since it gains 90% of its turnover in overseas exports(Multi MB-1250AV) 

Following the company’s success in winning 

contracts amounting to $8.25 million at the 

2006 CES (Consumer Electronics Show) held 

in Las Vegas, the United States in Jan. this year, 

MP3 player special manufacturer MultiChannel 

Labs. (www.xclef.com) is poised to capture Europe 

by its participation in the 2006 CeBIT Germany 

which will be held on March 9~15, 2006 with the 

support of the Incheon IT Promotion Agency. 

Ahead of its participation in the 2006 CeBIT 

Germany too, MultiChannel Labs has been cutting 

a conspicuous figure in world markets as the 

company’s product line-ups were favorably 

commented upon from buyers in world renowned 

exhibitions by developing diverse products from 

high-end MP3 Player field up to i-PMP (Intelligent 

Portable Multimedia Player), HDD multimedia 

player for automotive,PMP with DMB receiver, DVB-T /H 

receiver , GPS navigation system and so forth. 

At this 2006 CeBIT Germany as well, the company is 

expected to attract lots of attention from on-the-spot buyers with 

its product line-ups such as DivX Player, MP3 Player, and 

DMB/DVB-T & Navigation etc. 

Europe: a main market for MultiChannel Labs 

With a view to realizing the future multimedia society for 

everyone, MultiChannel Labs is always striving to be the best, 

this company CEO Kim Jong-soo mentioned, on the importance 

of the company’s participation in the 2006 CeBIT Germany, 

referring to the fact that Europe is currently the main market for 

the company. 

MultiChannel Labs 

CEO Kim Jong-soo, 

MultiChannel Labs 

Touching upon its participation background in 

the 2006 CeBIT Germany in an interview with The 

Korea IT Times, Kim elaborated, “Recently, the IT 

market has expanded very rapidly. Furthermore, the 

needs from the market include highly ranked 

technology, various functionalities, multiple 

purposes and even low cost.” 

In other words, the situation is very tough for a 

company which is doing their own development of 

multimedia products. In that respect, he asked, 

“How do many companies meet the needs of 

market in this condition?” They are worried about 

the fact that there might be no way to survive from 

the competition with various manufacturers. 

However, a possible way is to fundamentally 

develop unique technology and find out new items 

that will match the market trends. 

MultiChannel Labs’ product line-up also such as DivX 

Player and MP3 Player are products that were in that context 

launched, according to Kim. 

First off as to DivX Player, through USB2.0 interface, you 

can save and carry tons of DivX Movie, MP3 Music, JPG Photo, 

Study Office, game, entertainment multimedia contents data 

within 2.5”HDD Disc. Likewise, you can enjoy remarkable 

high-quality picture and 5.1 Ch Digital sound which you 

downloaded through the Internet freely, he explained. 

He proposed, “Now why don’t you enjoy DivX movies on a 

general home TV in the living room without gloomy monitor 

and computer noise?” In addition to this, you can use this player 

in vehicles using cigarette jacks and car batteries, Kim added. 

Especially, it is available to utilize for education and 

entertainment because this player can support DivX and MP3 

subtitle. Currently, it can be further easily used in both home 

and vehicle with a specific docking station. 

An Entertainer in Your Hands! 

As for MultiChannel Labs’ MP3 Player, another key product, 

its MP3 Player can support several audio formats and good 

audio quality. CEO Kim, who explained that its MP3 Player 

stands for “A Gateway to your Indoor Entertainment” and “An 

Entertainer in Your Hands!”, elaborated, “The main functions of 

it include MP3 playback, MPEG4 

playback, game, image viewer, FM 

Tuner, line-in recoding, voice 

recoding, time schedule and alarm”, 

adding that the hard disk will be used 

as media storage. 

It also has two-way external 

speakers and 2.0” TFT-LCD display. 

For using in the world, he is proud to 

speak that it can support multiple 

languages and ID3 tag information. 

Toward the end of the 20th century, 

the appearance of computers has 

Multi X-Gear 

drastically changed many things in human life and led human 

being into the vortex of another revolution, the so called 

“Information Revolution”. Especially, Kim pointed out that 

utilization of the Internet has made it possible to get more useful 

information than ever and to exchange any type of data each 

other without a direct visit. 

In that regard, many companies and institutes are studying 

more effective multimedia devices for the integration of audio, 

data and video recently. In particular, Kim noted that the desire 

for a good quality of multimedia data such as image, audio and 

video is leading the market to concentrate on this matter. 

At the center of this new trend, he said confidently that his 

engineers’ experience and expertise accumulated in this field 

would be a great contribution to fulfill the realization of the 

future multi-media society and the company, MultiChannel- 

Labs, will be one of the most popular companies specialized in 

multimedia technology in the world 

Leading the way in the 21C digital revolution 

He further emphasized that MultiChannel will be a leading 

part of the 21st century digital revolution, conquering world 

markets with technology power through MP3 and DMB/DVB- 

T/H receiver etc. 

The president, who said that 

MultiChannel is better known in 

overseas markets rather than at home, 

since it gains 90% of its turnover in 

overseas exports, emphasized that the 

only way for smaller companies to 

survive is technology development. 

Pointing out that there are boundaries 

in securing researchers in a reality of 

smaller companies whose funding is 

inferior, he explained that there is no 

choice but to solve technology 

development through an educational-industrial cooperation. 

His management philosophy is product development that can 

satisfy the needs of customers. Thus, he is investing over 10% 

of turnover profit in R&D (research & development) while a 

half of the company who work in laboratories among a total of 

20 employees, are putting their heart and soul into new 

technology development. 

He underscored that MultiChannel Labs aims to grow as the 

best enterprise not only at home, but also in overseas market by 

becoming a leader of the digital convergence revolution. 



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2006 

Hannover 

Korean SMEs at CeBIT 2006 

Many Korean firms are exhibiting at 

CeBIT 2006 Hannover in Germany and 

the following is a sampling of some of 

the firms and their products: 

Neosol is a technology company with comprehensive 

experience in the development 

of Flat Panel Display (FPD) 

and Applications (TV, DVD, 

D-TV). By developing the Full 

Color Organic EL (OLED) 

Panel Driving & control 

Technology, it became the first 

to commercialize OLED PMR (PMP Recorder) and TMR 

(TV+PMP Recorder). 

It is a company specializing in Full Color Organic El 

Applications, and enhanced multi-function PMP products in 

the next generation Moving Picture Digital Multimedia field. 

The PMP CLIOD 3550 equipped with 3.5-inch TFT LCD and 

16.7million colors display offers TV reception as well as 

recording functions and FM radio reception. It is a versatile, 

portable, multi-functional product with Video, Audio, Picture, 

text storage and playback as well as Line-outs to auxiliary AV 

devices. Equipped with 10.4-inch TFT LCD display, the 

CLIOD Wireless TV is Different concept from normal fixed 

TV at home. It’s wireless and cordless, so it can be portable 

wherever you go such as kitchen, living room, garden, camping 

and party within the radius of 30. It is able to connect to DVD, 

TV, and VCR. 

Wooksung Electronics Inc. 

Today’s communication environment is rapidly changing 

from existing PSTN for voice-only communication into multimedia 

communication of voice, image and data communication 

via fast growing broadband Internet infrastructure. WOOK- 

SUNG, founded in 1995 is continuously devoting itself to 

implementing “future communication today.” WOOKSUNG, a 

multimedia communication specialized company, is dedicated 

to meeting customers’ desire for innovative communication in 

real life situations. 

Wooksung Electonics (www.wooksung.com) will be 

exhibiting its Standalone H.323/SIP broadband Videophones, 

known as TelePhoSee. This is a low-cost model for the general 

user, with compact industrial design 

TelePhoSee videophones supports international standards 

H.323/SIP, connecting with all videophones and software conforming 

to those standards. TelePhoSee videophones also connect 

to MSN Messenger (SIP) and NetMeeting (H.323) chatting 

programs. TelePhoSee videophones incorporate a userfriendly 

GUI (Graphic User Interface) and touch screen 

(optional) for easy menu navigation and use. TelePhoSee 

includes applications such as Video calling, Call recording, 

Video answering machine, CID (Caller ID), and Phonebook. 

TelephoSee has various applications, such as video calling, 

distance learning, telemedicine, sign language communication 

for and with disabled persons, and multimedia content services 

Seju Engineering (www.safe-drive.com) is another 

Korean firm participating 

in CeBIT 2006 

Seju was established in 

1991 in order to develop 

and manufacture parts and 

system used exclusively in 

the military. Up until 1998 

Seju exclusively produced 

military parts such as 

Small Size Electronic Explosive Detonators (EED), Self 

Destruct Fuses, Shock Sensor and Reserve Battery. However, 

from 1998 Seju commenced civilian-type business and it has 

now taken up an unchallenged position in the field of sensors 

and systems. 

At Cebit, it is showcasing its micro alcohol sensor for cell 

phones, a personal alcohol detector and gas detector. Its alcohol 

sensor is very small so the sensor can be put into ac ell phone 

or MP3. SEJU will display state of the art Micro Gas Sensors, 

and visitors to its stand can see and experience various electronic 

gadgets where Seju’s sensors are adopted (Personal 

Alcohol Detector, Portable Gas Detector, Bad Breath Detector) 

Safe-Drive is a Personal Alcohol Detector in LED display. 

Safe-Drive has a key ring and is equipped with flash. With recalibration 

function Safe-Drive has very high accuracy. 

The technology used in the company’s sensor devices, 

called MEMS or Micro Electro Mechanical System is meaning 

technology for micro semiconductor processing. 

This technology is to integrate electric and mechanical parts 

into micro small size one, and MEMS means to fabricate a system 

with new function by combining mechanical structure and 

electric structure of micro scale together. 

UFOSys (http://www.ufosys.co.kr) which stands for 

“User-friendly Object 

Systems” will be 

showcasing its 

Octopus 2.0 at CeBIT 

2006. This is the first 

integrated cable and 

device in the world 

for connecting the 

computer peripherals 

such as monitor, keyboard, 

mouse, speaker, 

microphone, and 2USBs. The Octopus 2.0 consists of three 

parts: monitor station, any cable and PC station. The Octopus 

2.0 provides cleaner and more comfortable computer 

The company is dedicated to making life easier for its customers 

by adopting human + product + environmental friendliness 

to enhance convenience, improve efficiency and save 

resources. 

Myung Information Technologies 

(www.myung.co.kr) is showcasing 

its Flash Memory Disk, 

Standard 2.5” and 3.5” size (IDE 

and SCSI interface). It is fast, light 

and durable and recognized in 

CMOS setup. It will also be 

exhibiting products for data recovery, 

HDD repair and LCD repair. 

Myung has been developing HDD repairing technology and 

data recovery technology since 1990 and has been leading the 

world data recovery industry. The firm is specialized in physical 

data recovery and has developed many kinds of data recovery 

software. Since 1990, it has recovered more than 175,000 

defective HDDs, and developed LCD panel repairing technology, 

plus producing desktop and car LCD monitors. In addition, 

Myung has invented flash memory disk for the first time in 

Korea and repairs various kinds of storage devices. It has subsidiary 

companies in China, Hongkong and Malaysia, and has 

transferred its advanced technology to Japan and Thailand. In 

2006, it plans to set up more than 10 subsidiary companies 

worldwide. 

emFrontier, an IT subsidiary of HanKook Tire Corp. 

offers a great deal 

of expertise for system 

development 

and manufacturing 

management backed 

by the solid financial 

support and 

experience of 

HanKook Tire 

Corp. With strong 

marketing organization 

and technical 

background, emFrontier is the best in e-Business integration 

and provides e-Business consulting and outsourcing service to 

progressive companies around the world. 

At CeBit it is offering clients solutions to monitoring a 

warehouse with 3D graphics, analyzing data with various management 

factors, finding problems, and providing powerful 

optimization solution (efficiency for space management and 

productivity in delivery distance, etc) by various simulations, 

emFrontier, Inc’s air-WOS (Warehouse Optimization System) 

support every type of Warehouse Management System. As a 

result, users for 3PL (Third Party Logistics) suppliers, retail 

business (CPG), manufacturers, whole or retail sellers with the 

latest technology can run more powerful and effective warehouse 

optimization management. 



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Mobiblu, the brand name of Hyun Won Inc. 

(www.mibiblu.com), is a 

firm that has been producing 

and selling digital 

audio players and IPS 

equipment since 1996. It 

comprises a digital 

research institute, factories 

and trade networks. 

At CeBIT, the company 

is putting on show its 

mobiBLU DAH-1500, the “World’s smallest Cube MP3 player” 

and will be launching a new product, DAH 1900 with the 

world’s longest battery life and up to 150 hours of playback. 

Another innovative product that it the DHH-200, which is an 

HDD-based Micro Multimedia Player, which can play music 

and MPEG video. 

At CES2001 in Las Vegas, Hyun Won Inc. won the 

Consumer Electronics Association’s Innovations 2001 Design 

Award for Cassette type MP3 Player and the player was awarded 

“Best of Retail Vision Europe 2002.” In addition at 2003 

CES, the company won the “Best of CES Finalist” by Tech TV 

in the Audio Division for DualSports, which incorporated a 

wireless HRM (heart rate monitor) and a digital audio player. 

BND Co. Ltd will be featuring at CeBit its groundbreaking 

product, the BND Browser. This mobile browser is 

not only a core technology of wireless Internet but has also 

become a major function of mobile phones and is now in 

demand to satisfy all users’ and operators’ diverse needs, as 

well as conforming to global standards. The BND browser was 

created based on wide experience in developing mobile software 

and it is destined to be the best solution for the wireless 

Internet. Some of its special features are: easy porting and integration, 

device optimized layout engine, flexibility in customizing. 

Even if LCD size and color 

depth is changed, the core manages 

them automatically without any additional 

porting. It supplies users a convenient 

and easy browsing environment 

with vertical picture optimization 

technique for those Web pages 

wider than screen width. 

The BND Browser was designed 

to deploy each wireless operator’s 

unique features immediately as well 

as to make terminal device manufacturers 

save effort while porting. 

The firm sees its BND Browser as becoming everyone’s 

best partner for the wireless Internet era. 

Fusionsoft is a mobile solution development company 

that is showcasing its products at CeBit. Since its establishment 

in 1999, the company was the first in the world to develop an 

Interrelated Embedded Database Engine mounted on a mobile 

phone, and obtained OMA certification by developing SyncML 

based on WIN CE, Linux and others. 

An outstanding product it is featuring at CeBit is the “odd-I 

PMP” mobile multiplayer, mounted with a 2M Pixel camera 

that allows users to enjoy watching movies or photos on the 

screen, even sharing the experience with other people. In addition 

it has an MP3 player to enjoy listening to music or radio. It 

can also be used to read text or for voice recording, and adding 

a function of USB host makes it even more convenient. Also it 

can be used for fast and safe driving with its navigation support 

feature for cars. 

In addition to this product Fusionsoft has a number of other 

mobile solution products, such as Easylink, a solution that 

improves the functions of mobile phones by connecting them to 

PCs, by adding Phonebook or Schedule. 

2006 

Hannover 

Korean Firms at CeBIT 2006 

The following is a list of Korea’s participating companies in CeBIT organized by KOTRA, KEA 

(Korea Electronics Association), KOSA (Korea Software Industry Association), and IITA (Incheon IT 

Promotion Agency). 

No. Company Name Tel. Homepage Contact Person E-Mail 

Exhibits Booth No. Hall No. 

KTC : Chungbuk 

1 Myung Information Tecnology Co.,Ltd (82-43) 218-8400 www.myung.co.kr Kang-Ae Lee kang@myung.co.kr 

Flash Memory Disk, Data Recovery, LCD Repair F21-7 25 

2 Green Optics Co., Ltd. (82-43) 218-2183 www.greenopt.com Dong-kyun, Kim kdk@greenopt.com 

Security System & Portable Projector F21-8 25 

3 UFOSYS CO.,LTD. (82-43) 260-1091 www.ufosys.co.kr Byeong-Ha, Noh webmaster@ufosys.co.kr 

Security Equipments,Wireless Camera & IP Camera Server,Integrated Cable for PC peripheral F21-5 25 

4 K-TEK.CO.,LTD. (82-43) 277-9920 www.k-tek.co.kr Il-Hun Lee bskim@k-tek.co.kr 

Language Learning EarphoneWalking Karaoke EarphoneEarphone for Voice Modulation F21-6 25 

Organization : KEA (Korea Electronics Association) 

1 Sodiff E&T Co., Ltd (82-31) 900-1641 www.sodiffent.com I.B. Kim ibkim@sodiff.net 

LCD TV (DBV-T), Wibro Handset E22-7/8/9 25 

2 SEWOO TECH CO.,LTD 82-31-459-8200 www.miniprinter.com Eddie Jo eddie@miniprinter.com 

POS receipt printer, Desktop label printer C50-26/27 23 

3 Keico HighTech 82-2-6675-3117 www.keico.co.kr Jay Koo jaykoo@keico.co.kr 

Fingerprint & RFID Access Control Systems C50-28 23 

4 UGCOM(BRAINIC) 82-2-2163-0270 www.ugcom.net G.H.LEE u1lgh@ugcom.net 

PMP, MP3 Player, Bluetooth Headsets etc. E22-5/6 25 

5 KTV GLOBALCORP. 82-2-589-5385 www.ktvcorp.co.kr RICKY EOM ricky@ktvcorp.co.kr 

LCD TV E22-16/17/18 25 

6 DigitalZone Co., Ltd. 82-2-6330-2339 www.dzonei.com Anna Lee jylee@dzonei.com 

HD Stream Generator, Component Distributor, Component Switcher, HDMI Distributor, DMB Receiver F21-4 25 

7 Diasonic Technology Co.,Ltd 82-31-474-0852 www.diasonic.com Sang-Hyun Kim salesteam@diasonic.com 

Voice Recorder,Speaker,DAB Radio,MP3,Navigation,Digital Photo Frame,Divix Player C02-3 22 

8 Remote Solution 82-54-420-4512/4523 www.remotesolution.co.kr Yoon Choi choi@remotesolution.co.kr 

Remote Controls E22-13 25 

9 Sarotech Co.,Ltd 82-2-480-5130 www.sarotech.com Heidi Kim heidi@sarotech.com 

Backup storage, Multimedia storage, Network storage B06-15/16 22 

10 Stormblue Co., Ltd. 82-2-2113-8745 www.stormblue.biz Steve Kim steve@stormblue.co.kr 

Bluetooth, DMB Dongle, USB Memory Storage, MP4/MP3 Players B12-3 22 

11 SoundGraph, Inc 82-2-569-2097 www.soundgraph.com SEO, DONG SIK seo@soundgraph.comUSB 

RF/IR remote control/receiver device & Multi-Media Solution for PC(H/W & S/W) C02-2 22 

12 Kyung Jin Electron Co., Ltd 82 2 2113 7200 www.kj-headset.co.kr Lee, Gi Yong lgiyong@kj-headset.co.kr 

Headset, Bluetooth, Telephones. B06-6 22 

13 ATEC Co., Ltd. 82-2-2190-5175 www.atech.co.kr Park, Hyoung Jae hjpark@atech.co.krLCD TV, 

LCD PC, LCD Monitor, Web KIOSK, ETC E22-10/11/12 25 

14 GPNC Co., Ltd 82-2-3283-8251 www.gpnc.co.kr Jennifer Lee jennifer@gpnc.co.krPDP TV, 

LCD TV E22-14/15 25 

15 Bluzen inc. 82-2-448-5095 www.bluzen.com Kim Ho Youl khy@bluzen.com 

Player, usb driver,smart card etc. B06-11 22 

16 AL Tech Inc 82-2-566-5093 www.airlinktek.com Jeff Choi chs0504@airlinktek.com 

Digital Media Player, DVB-T, AP Router, Car Multi-Media Player (In-Dash) C50-24 23 

17 ORACOM Co., Ltd 82-2-563-5633 www.oracom.co.kr SK Cho skcho@oracom.co.kr 

Mini PMP & MP3 player B06-14 22 

18 JIUM CO., LTD. 82-41-541-9380 www.e-jium.com Donnie Kim dhkim@e-jium.com - 

Computer Cooling System - CyCooler Laptop, Desktop, Server, DVR Cooler- Industrial Cooling System-Chiller, THC, Panel Cooler B06-13 22 

19 D.O.Tel 82-2-850-3650 www.dotel.co.kr W.S.Seong wsseong@dotel.co.kr 

Car Navigation,PDA,Mobile POS terminal B06-1 22 

20 3SOFT.CO.,LTD. 82-2-541-0453 www.3soft.com Kim,Sung Hoon kimsh@3soft.com 

DMB(Digital Multimedia Broadcasting), PMP(Portable Multimedia Player), Navigation C50-22/23 23 

21 Bujeon components.co.ltd 82-31-408-6987 www.bujeon.com Ken Kim sales@bujeon.com 

Micro speaker, ECM, Inductor,transfomer, Vibration Motor, Buzzer B12-4 22 

22 AsianaIDT 82-2-2127-8440 www.asianaidt.com j.e.Oh oje3689@asianaidt.com 

Wireless HeadPhone etc. B12-1/2 22 

23 3R SYSTEM CO., LTD. 82-2-702-0687 www.3rsys.com David Jang david@3rsys.com 

PC Case, Power Supply, Water Cooler B06-7/8 22 

24 V.L System Co., Ltd. 82-2-717-6694 www.vlsys.co.kr ROY ROH sales@vlsys.co.kr 

Computer Multifunctions VFD Display -M-PLAY 202 PLUS, BLAST, MINI B06-5 22 

25 i-BEAD Co., Ltd. 82-31-705-6800 www.ibead.co.kr Sanah Min sanah@ibead.co.kr 

MP3 player, Car navigation B12-5 22 

26 ZEPETRONIX Co., Ltd. 82-2-6736-6060 www.zepetronix.com Lee, Yoon Kyoo yklee@zepe.co.kr 

Magnetic Card Reader Ticket Issuing MachinePET Card Terminal C50-25 23 

27 Technovas.Co.,Ltd. 82-2-2612-2018 www.tclip.net WonSeok,Han hanws@technovas.com 

MP3 Player B06-4 22 

28 NEXTO DI Inc. 82-2-589-1083 www.nextodi.com Mr. Alex Lee yurchika@nextodi.com 

Portable Storage Device OTG for Portable Digital Device IEEE1394 & USB2.0 B06-2 22 



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29 The Gate Technology 82-2-407-7918 www.thegate.co.kr Rolain Yang rolain@navisis.com 

Digital pen, Attachable tablet monitor and etc. C02-1 22 

30 3GATE CO., LTD 82-2-701-8540 WWW.3GATE.CO.KR Miky Kim mikykim@3gate.co.kr 

LCD Monitor for 17 & 19. B06-3 22 

31(*) Savitmicro Co., Ltd. 82-2-838-1394 www.savitmicro.co.kr Jun Lee jun@go1394.co.kr 

PC Camera, External StorageMultimedia player C50-14 23 

32(*) Dongyoung Media Co. Ltd 82-31-454-1456 www.dongyoung.com S.H.Lee au483@daum.net 

Kitchen AV System, Video Phone, Displays B06-12 22 

33(*) Kyung Gee Electronics Co. 82-2-3661-3485 www.kgelect.com Yun-Hee Kim bobo09149@hotmail.com 

Internet Phone C50-13 23 

34(n) ICRAFT 82-2-541-0474 www.icraft21.com joo ok, hyoun hjo@icraft21.com 

mobile credit, debit card payment system(mc-printer, mc-reader, IC900B), mobile alcohol checker(mobi-hoo) -9 22 

35(n) PlayM Corporation 82-2-2026-0598/9 www.playmcorp.com Byeon, Hee Young youngkim@playmcorp.com 

16Mbps IrDA Wireless MP3 Player/PMP B06-10 22 

36(n) Cypublic Co.,Ltd 82-2-707-3203 www.mman.co.kr Lou Sim lousim@separk.com 

Multi Media AV Player E22-1 25 

37(n) Aionkorea co.,ltd. 82-2-705-1581 www.aionkorea.com Nice Lee lottery@aionkorea.com 

PC speakr, optical mouse, Headset, PC camera etc.. E22-2 25 

KTC : Taejon 

1 SEJU ENGINEERING CO., LTD. (82-42)825-6850 www.safe-drive.com Charley-Imm sales@sejumicron.com 

1) Micro Alcohol Sensor for Cell Phone & MP32) Personal Alcohol Detector 3) Personal Smell Tester4) Portable Gas Detector B12-7 22 

2 SUNGJIN TECHWIN CO., LTD. (82-42)271-1177 www.switch-vr.com JUNG, JAE YOUNG sjic11@kornet.net 

Bluetooth HandsFree B12-12 22 

3 APACK, INC. (82-42)864-0815 www.apack.net Joon-il Kim joonil.kim@apack.net 

PC & Server Cooler, Solar Collector B12-13 22 

4 Wooksung Electronics, Inc (82-42)366-1000 www.wooksung.com Sunny Min sunny@wooksung.com 1) 

IP Videophone2) Web Videophone3) Business Videophone B12-15 22 

5 Korea Network Systems (82-42)932-0351~2 www.kns-kr.com Young-Sung Jeon(Director) jysos@kns-kr.com 

Satellite antenna sysytem B12-16 22 

6 ID KOREA.Inc (82-42)636-0038 www.idkorea.co.kr Bryan Jang trader@idkorea.co.kr 

VGA Cards & Power Supplyer for Computer B12-6 22 

7 ASB Inc. (82-42)528-7223 www.asb.co.kr An Sun Young syan@asb.co.kr 

Power Amplifier,LNA, PLL, DSR, RFD& RFID SYSTEM, USN, Converter, Extender B12-8 22 

8 Honest Technology Co., Ltd. (82-42)477-0717 www.honestech.com Seo-Yeon Lee sylee@honestech.co.kr 

Digital Video Package Software B12-11 22 

9 Korea Power Cell Inc. (82-42)864-0255 www.powercellkorea.com Matthew Kwak justin@powercellkorea.com 

Lithium ion rechargeablebattery B12-10 22 

10 COMIZOA Co., Ltd. (82-42)936-6500 www.comizoa.com Young-sam Oh oys@comizoa.com 

Data Acquisition Board & Motion Controller B12-14 22 

KTC : Kyungki (Kyungki) 

1 DAVOLINK Inc. 82-31-387-3240 www.davolink.co.kr S.H.KANG shkang@davolink.co.kr 

VoIP Analogue/Digital Gateways,IP Phones, Integrated Access Device(IAD) F21-18 25 

2 Maycom Co.,Ltd. 82-31-470-7700 www.emaycom.com Richard Kim richardkim@emaycom.com 

PMP, MP3 Player, etc. F21-12 25 

3 NComputing Co.,Ltd 82-31-422-5157 www.ncomputing.com Herry Yoon herry@ncomputing 

Network Computing Device F21-15 25 

4 UM Digital Inc. 82-31-764-4181 www.umdigital.com K.H.LEE um@umdigital.com 

Multi Screen Computer F21-11 25 

5 ENOX, Inc. 82-31-382-5060 www.enox.co.kr Robert Im im@enox.biz 

PMP, MP3 Player, etc. F21-13 25 

6 EC WORLD CORPORATION 82-31-948-2450 www.inkman.co.kr Brian Suh info@inkman.co.kr 

Printer refill ink kits, ink cartridge, Toner cartridge, Auto ink refilling machine F21-9 25 

7 GEOLINK CO., Ltd. 82-31-387-2380 www.geolink.co.kr Lee, Hong Sun geolink@chol.com 

Headset Telephone, Telephone Amplifier, Selection Switch, USB Digitel Sound Adaptor, Computer Headset, Telephone Headset F21-16 25 

8 PREWELL CORPORATION (82-31) 420-8330 www.prewell.com tae-kwon Kim tkkim@prewell.com 

RFIC Power Amplifier & Fiber Optic Transceiver F21-10 25 

9 Sprite Electronics Inc (82-31) 458-0168 www.sprite.co.kr Min-Seok Ko sale@sprite.co.kr 

Wireless Hometheater System F21-14 25 

10 Zephyr Co., LTd. 82-31-426-1111 http://zephyrco.en.ec21.com Ryu, Hojung 7777@zephyr.co.kr 

Digital Door Lock F21-17 25 

KTC : Kyungki (Suwon) 

1 PenZ Co., Ltd. (82-31) 231-8808 www.i-penz.com Antony Oh antony@i-penz.com 

Digital Pen, Pen Mouse C02-8 22 

2 S-CAM Co., Ltd. (82-31) 233-4664 www.sorell.co.kr SEOK HUN, LEE seok@scam.co.kr 

MP3 Player, Digital audio Player C02-4 22 

3 Elentec Co., Ltd. (82-2) 2163-0745 www.elentec.co.kr, Ju-Yeon Park jypark@iubi.co.kr, 

PMP (Portable multimedia player)2. Navigation (+GPS)3. DivX player C02-6 22 

4 IOCELL Corporation (82-31)233-9419 °°www.iocell.com °°Hyuck-joo Lee °°hjlee@iocell.co.kr 

USB Flash Drives C02-9 22 

5 DUALi INC (82-31) 213-0074 www.duali.co.kr KIM, Hancheol kimhch@duali.com 

Smart Card ReadersRFID DevicesRF Modulee-Payment Terminal C02-5 22 

KTC : Kyungki (Sungnam) 

1 NEOWINE Inc. (82-31) 789-7875 www.neowine.co.kr Min-Tae Kim kmtic@neowine.co.kr 

Copy Protection IC, Semicondector F19-5 25 

2 NOVATRON CO.,LTD. (82-31)716-6923 www.iamm.co.kr Hak J. Kim hjkim@novatron.co.kr 

HDD type Multimedia Player F21-1 25 

3 DTS INFOCOM CO.,LTD (82-31) 702-6173 www.dtsinfo.co.kr Hwang-Hee Lee sales@dtsinfo.co.kr 

HDD type MP4 MediaPlayer, DVD Karaoke Portable Player F19-3 25 

4 MAXIAN Co.,Ltd. (82-31)784-8321 www.maxian.com Min-Gu Hwangbo hbmg@maxian.com 

PMP (Portable Media Player), DMB(Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) device F19-2 25 

5 SAMHUNG ELECTRONICS Co. (82-31) 740-9140 www.shec.co.kr Se-Ho Yang shyang@shec.co.kr 

Real Multimedia Center - All-In-One Multimedia SystemSnap Guard - Automatically Motion Detecting Digital CameraUSB Guard -USB 

Interfaced 4-CH DVRPowerDVR - Stand-Alone 4-CH DVRMobileAVX - Vehicle Driving Data Analysis System F21-3 25 

6 ASICBank Co.,LTD (82-31) 789-7933 www.asicbank.com Eun-Hwa Park ehpark@asicbank.com 

Network Camera ITS Camera SoC Solution (Multimedia System) F19-6 25 

7 Ellion Digital, Inc (82-31) 739-5420 www.elliondigital.com Nillson-Han nillson@elliondigital.com 

DVD Recorder(HDD DVD Combo, Digital HDD DVD Combo) F19-7 25 

8 Waawoo Technology Inc., (82-31) 735-1380 www.wow-pen.com Cho byung hee brian727@waawoo-tech.com 

Wow-Pen Mouse, the real pen shaped optical mouse and handwriting pen features healthcare, portable and versatile device getting over the 

structural disadvantages of the conventional optical mouse. F19-4 25 

9 Wareplus,. Inc. (82-31) 719-5020 www.wareplus.com bong-hwan Kim bhkim@wareplus.com 

1. Home Security, Home Theater, Home Device control based on the integrated HomeNetwork Middlewares 

2. Ubiquitous platform based on RFID and HomeNetwork Services F19-1 25 

10 PNTelecom (82-31) 777-3777 www.pntelecom.co.kr Haisung Ryou withyou@pntelecom.co.kr 

solution provider for the mobile telecommunications & Accessory F21-2 25 

KTC : Incheon 

1 Multi Channel Labs Co., Ltd. 82-32-621-4011 www.xclef.com Seong-Joo Kim bluebird@xclef.com 

High-end MP3P, DMB, PMP, DivX Player A58-11 23 

2 PARASYS Co., Ltd. 82-32-432-0346 www.parasys.net Won Kyo Chung paradev@chol.com 

Multimedia Web Contents Authoring ToolFlying PopCorn5 C50-9 23 

3 Dinss Co., Ltd. 82-32-516-6018 www.dinss.net Jong Seob Jin steve@dinss.net 

Car BlackBox, DVR A58-10 23 

4 NAMJOOTECH 82-32-623-6400 www.namjootech.co.kr Nam Joo Hwang njhwang1@hanmail.net 

LCD/PDP TV, Infrared Touch Screen C50-8 23 

5 Chois Technology 82-32-246-3409 www.choistec.com Young-Min Shin charles@choistec.com 

X-Pointer, X-Remocon A58-7 23 

6 Investclub Inc. 82-32-623-5555 www.investclub.co.kr Sung Mo Lee ctn11@yahoo.com 

MART BIZNET(e-Trade Solution) A58-3 23 

7 STB 82-32-876-1436 www.stbchip.co.kr Jin Young Lee webmaster@stbchip.co.kr 

Mobile Saver A58-12 23 

8 YUHANHITEC CO., LTD. 82-32-819-3233~6 www.yuhanhitec.com Jae Mo Seo etoile@yuhanhitec.com 

Computer Case C50-10 23 

9 SB Telcom 82-32-864-8883 www.sbtelcom.com Hyung Keon Kim hkkim@sbtelcom.com 

GPS Navigation, Back Warning System, Handheld TV, Wireless Headset A58-6 23 

10 NEO-VISION. Co., Ltd. 82-32-584-2708 www.neo-vision.co.kr Jay Lee neo@neo-vision.co.kr 

Computer Case, Power Supply,Computer Peripheral A58-4 23 

11 Pavonine Inc. 82-32-765-3030 www.dimen.co.kr Kyung Hun Park khpark@dimen.co.kr 

3D LCD Monitor(DiMEN) A58-5 23 

12 DNMEDIA 82-32-867-1301 www.dnmedia.co.kr Hyo Jong Han vseen@naver.com 

Video communication and Collaboration solutions/e-Learning solutions A58-2 23 

13 NEXIO Co., Ltd. 82-32-556-9545 www.inexio.co.kr Jung-Hyun Kim jameskim@inexio.co.kr 

TFT LCD Touch Monitor&Touch Screen A58-8 23 

14 MPDevice Co., Ltd. 82-32-822-3290 www.mpdevice.com Sang Keun Lee mpd@mpdevice.com 

RF Coaxial Connector/RF Cable Assembly/Termination/GPS Antenna A58-1 23 

15 HANHO ELECTRONICS 82-32-514-0811 www.hanics.com Hee-Seong Lee hees@hanics.com 

Bone Conduction Headset/Mobile Microphone/Headset A58-9 23 

KTC : Daegu-Kyungbuk 

1 Dong Yang Electronics 82-54-482-0871 www.xm.co.kr Yoon, In Jung sales@xm.co.kr 

TFT-LCD Ceiling Mount Monitor with DVD playerTFT-LCD Ceiling Mount Monitor(for car) 

TFT-LCD Headrest Monitor(for car)TFT-LCD Color Television C50-15 23 

2 Beyond Insight Co., Ltd. 82-53-951-5834~5 www.beyondinsight.co.kr Kim, Ok Tae otkim@beyondinsight.co.kr 

1. T DMB Set-Top BOX1. ETI T-DMB Monitor,2. T-DMB Receiver C50-12 23 

3 Neosol Co., Ltd. 82-53-587-3600 www.neosoltech.com Song, Ho Cheol hcsong@neosoltech.com 

PMP C50-7 23 

4 USYS Co., Ltd 82-53-652-9475 www.usys.co.kr Kim, Nam Yeob kny@usys.co.kr 

WiBro/WiMAX C50-20 23 

5 HUONE(MTIS Co., Ltd.) 82-53-325-4956 www.mtis.co.kr Oh, Young Wook tano@mtis.co.kr 

2D/3D Graphics Solution for embedded devices:Open VG, OpenGL-ES C50-4 23 

6 FUSIONSOFT co., Ltd 82-53-609-7300 www.fusionsoft.co.kr Lee, Sang Hyuk hisanghyuk@fusionsoft.co.kr 

PMP C50-2 23 

7 INDTEKCo.,Ltd. 82-54-473-1830~6 www.indtek.co.kr Sun Park sunpark@indtek.co.kr 

LCD TV C50-16/17/18 23 

8 Digen Co., Ltd. 82-53-661-5500 www.idigen.com Brian Jang brian@Idigen.com 

Car TFT LCD AV System,TFT LCD Monitor for Automotive C50-3 23 

9 HYUNWON INC 82-53-743-7200 www.mobiblu.com Na, Gwan SikPark ain@hyunwoninc. 

MP3 Player C50-11 23 

10 BND Co., Ltd 82-53-325-0701 www.bndnet.com Ryu, Chang Hyoung bluekid@bndnet.com 

WAP 2.0 Standard Flexible Mobile Browser C50-5 23 

11 KBiT Co., Ltd. 82-53-382-3803 www.kbit.co.kr Lee, Gi Hyoung kaistian@kbit.co.kr 

FM transmiterweb cameraDVR C50-6 23 

12 gbtec 82-53-428-2091 www.gbtec.co.kr Lee, Eun Gi dmsrl01@gbtec.co.kr 

U-PAD C50-21 23 

13 2MTECH 82-54-977-2500 www.2mtech.co.kr Kwon, Yeung Moon ymkwon@2mtech.co.kr 

DMB Terminal C50-19 23 



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VoIP / VON Spring 2006 

LG-Nortel 

World’s VoIP Experts Head for San Jose 

Canadian-Korean Partnership Making Waves 

VON Spring 2006 Conference & Expo in California attracts VOIP experts and buyers 

from all over the world 

The world’s No.1 event for the IP 

communications industry, the Spring 2006 

VON Conference & Expo, will be taking 

place March 14-17 at the San Jose 

Convention Center in San Jose, California. 

VON is unquestionably the Global 

Industry event for VoIP and IP 

Communications, now in its 10th year. 

It is the largest VoIP exhibition in the 

world, with over 300 companies 

showcasing the very best of IP 

communications technology and solutions. 

Come meet with all the leading players 

under one roof 

Spring VON brings together just about 

everyone that matters from the converging 

communications landscape, to map out the 

future. With over 350 speakers across 4 

days, and breakout sessions brimming with 

insights and answers to strategic and 

technical questions - Spring VON is where 

visitors can find out more about how to 

profit from the next wave of the 

communications revolution. 

The VON Conference is unmatched by 

any other event and is the place where the 

industry comes to learn, network and 

explore the IP Communications industry. 

It is the must attend event of the season. 

Moreover, at the Spring 2006 VON 

Conference, over 275 industry executives 

will be speaking 

This year’s conference program is 

comprised of five dedicated tracks, namely 

for Service Providers, Doing Business, 

Enterprise, Trendcasting ,and Disruptive 

Technology. 

Attendees will get the chance to 

network and mingle with the people who 

make the industry, including the 

following: 

* Service Providers and Carriers 

* Backbone, fiber networks, cable networks 

* CLECs, ISPs, LECs and WiFi 

* Enterprise IT and Telecom Staff 

* Venture Capital and Investment 

Bankers 

* IP Communication and VoIP 

Consultants 

* Regulators and Policy Makers 

* Resellers, Distributors and VARs 

* Communication Equipment Manufacturers 

* Anyone who values being in the know 

on IP communications trends 

Evaluating the impact 

of VoIP on your 

business; VON Spring 

2006 promises to be an 

even greater success. 

At VON, visitors can spend time with 

the people and companies that are defining 

the industry. Whether buying, selling or 

exploring business development 

opportunities, VON is the one place that 

brings everyone together. Evaluate the 

impact of VoIP on your business; consider 

the strategies of both the incumbents and 

upstarts; discover the possibilities in 

disruptive broadcasting; See, touch and 

test drive the latest technologies; compare 

the promise and pitfalls of hosted voice, 

assess how wireless voice could change 

your universe 

Last year’s Fall VON 2005 was held 

September 19th to 22nd at the new Boston 

Convention and Exhibition Center 

(BCEC). Once again, VON maintained its 

position as the world’s largest VoIP 

exhibition. Indeed, about 6000 attendees 

were expected, but more than 8000 

showed up - yet another all-time record. 

They were greeted by over 330 IP 

communications-related exhibitors and an 

army of speakers who kept things 

informative and lively. This spring’s 

gathering in San Jose promises to be an 

even greater success. 

LG-Nortel, a joint venture between LG 

Electronics of Korea and Nortel 

Networks Corp. of Canada, plans to 

introduce high-end IP telephony solutions 

to the market aggressively 

and persistently this year, M3-1 Model 

Lee Jae-ryung, CEO of the 

company, told the Korea IT 

Times in a recent interview. 

Noting that the IP telephony 

market will be developed 

at a rapid pace in 

2006, Lee said, “LG-Nortel 

will produce high-quality IP 

telephony products in 

earnest this year.” 

In 2006, LG-Nortel aims 

at maximizing synergy 

effects internally and 

actively exploring the overseas 

IP telephony market 

externally. 

Lee added, “The present trends are 

mobility and multimedia service. 

Accordingly, the success of the network 

equipment maker depends on whether or 

not customers’ needs are satisfied, including 

the security problem. Another important 

factor is the price competitiveness. In 

these two fields, LG-Nortel has enough 

competitiveness.” 

Asked about the LG-Nortel’s major 

business projects for 2006, the top manager 

said, “To supply solutions most suitable for 

integrated security of all networks, we will 

graft a variety of platforms onto the SSL- 

VPN service in all L4-L7 switch products. 

Along with this, we plan to offer bilateral 

supplementary solution between IPSec and 

SSLVPN. 

“At the same time, LG-Nortel will 

accelerate generation replacements through 

expansion of the L7 switch market and 

exert best efforts to find out new customers 

of SSL-VPN, as well as actively expand 

the domestic and foreign market,” he said. 

LG-Nortel Prepares to Capture Global IP Telephony Markets 

To this end, LG-Nortel will seriously 

attempt to meet the needs of the domestic 

enterprises market and aggressively attack 

the large enterprise market in the IP Sec 

VPN business sector. 

As the portion of the 

application field to the total 

market is expected to grow, 

LG-Nortel will introduce 

the “multimedia collaboration” 

concept, under which 

all users can jointly share 

integrated messaging, 

videoconferencing, and file 

delivery with others. 

“In other words, we have 

a strategy to offer such various 

functions as data, 

sound, video, conference, 

instant messaging, white 

boarding, file exchange, coweb 

browsing, and existence 

management with a single piece of 

equipment,” said Lee. 

On LG-Nortel’s technology related to 

IP telephony, CEO Lee said, “IP telephony 

no longer means only VoIP as it includes 

valuable application area which is combined 

with a variety of multimedia.” 

Recently, such an 

application has 

escaped from an 

independent application 

with a single 

purpose and has 

been developing into 

an integrated application 

performing 

many functions 

compositely. 

The ultimate goal 

of integrated application 

mobility in 

the IP telephony is 

to let users experience 

epoch-making 

LG-Nortel IP Phone “LIP7024” 

improvement in productivity. Mobility in 

an integrated application carrying such 

purpose means that users can carry out and 

receive services they want at any time at 

any place with any equipment. 

Mobility in an integrated application 

helps users not only improve productivity 

sharply but also serve as a catalyst to let 

them approach to those with many IP telephony. 

Lee also said, “The final direction for 

development should be decided according 

to the needs of customers. In the past, 

enterprises selling products led the direction 

for development. However, the direction 

has been changing to the way that customers 

demand first. LG-Nortel will also 

analyze and set up network in such a way 

as to meet the way pursued by customers. 

Through negotiations with customers, we 

will make a strong push for customer-oriented 

business.” 

In the meantime, LG-Nortel started its 

first road show, named the “Power 

Convergence of LG-Nortel 2006,” in 

Daejeon from Feb. 20 for a 15-day run. 

The road show, the first since its official 

inauguration in November last year as a 

joint venture between LG Electronics of 



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VoIP / LG-Nortel 

Samsung Networks / VoIP 

The following are excerpts from an interview with CEO 

Lee Jae-ryung of LG-Nortel. 

Q: Firstly, would you tell our readers a bit more 

about LG-Nortel? 

A: LG-Nortel was officially inaugurated as a joint venture 

on Nov. 3, 2005 between LG Electronics, a global maker of 

electronics and IT products, and Nortel Networks Corp., a 

Canada-based wire & wireless communication equipment 

maker. 

LG-Nortel supplies state-of-the-art 

communication and network solutions to 

the domestic and global wire & wireless 

communication, optical and enterprise 

markets. It consists of the career network 

business department and the enterprises 

business department. 

LG Electronics and Nortel were selected 

as joint partners to build 

HSDPA/WCDMA network of KTF and 

SK Telecom even before establishing the 

joint venture, working together closely. 

The total number of employees at LG- 

Nortel (www.LG-Nortel.com) is about 

1,400. 

Q: Would you explain LG-Nortel’s 

marketing and service strategies at home and abroad? 

How about its global networks? 

A: LG-Nortel was created in a form of joint venture 

between the network business department of LG Electronics 

boasting of the world’s top-level technology and manpower to 

develop communication equipment and Nortel, a 100-year-old 

global communication equipment maker selling and developing 

top-level communication equipment goods. 

The joint venture between the two companies has a great 

meaning as it is entire business cooperation between core ability 

of LG Electronics and that of Nortel, not simple business 

cooperation. 

I expect that LG Electronics and Nortel will combine their 

advanced R&D technology and global marketing ability to 

Korea and Nortel Networks Corp. of 

Canada, is designed to aggressively attack 

the domestic corporate communication 

market. 

Through the road show, LG-Nortel 

plans to introduce its total solutions in the 

corporate communication sector in detail to 

its corporate customers and channel partners, 

cementing its leading position in the 

global wire & wireless communication 

equipment and networking solution market. 

LG-Nortel will hold the road shows in 

the nation’s major five cities - Seoul, 

Daejeon, Gwangju, Busan and Daegu - to 

introduce the company’s network proposals 

for multimedia communication, which 

integrates convergence network, voice, 

data and media. 

Besides, it will explain its product 

produce goods necessary for up-to-date communication equipment 

and networking solution, creating synergy effects to the 

maximum. 

Q: LG-Nortel boasts of high-quality service and 

technology. Would you comment on the merits of LG- 

Nortel in the service, technology and solution sectors? 

A: LG-Nortel’s communication server 1000M is an all IP- 

PBX product with excellent extensible ability. It helps customers 

save costs through the network, 

which is divided into sound and data, and 

implements new functions and applications 

to help them cope with positively according 

to business situation. 

Widely different from the existing digital 

phone, LG-Nortel’s Internet phone 

i2004 uses the data network, making it possible 

to support state-of-the-art IP services, 

including various telephony functions and 

call pilot integrated messaging. 

At the same time, it sets the priority 

order of sound traffic, guaranteeing highquality 

sound. 

In particular, LG-Nortel WLAN handset 

2211, the smallest and lightest product 

CEO Lee Jae-ryung of LG-Nortel among existing handsets, offers such functions 

as automatic number identification, 

wait during call, conversion to terminating call, conversion to 

extension call and conferencing, while providing clean quality 

of call. 

The 2211 product offers all functions of LG-Nortel telephony 

with potable IP device, while supporting walkie talkie 

communication. 

LG-Nortel will take the lead in the global communication 

market as well as in the domestic market by leveraging their 

combined technologies and marketing power. 

LG-Nortel will become an R&D hub in the information 

and communication system sectors as a way to cope with the 

fast-changing IT industry environment and take the lead in 

developing next-generation technologies. 

strategies and individual solutions for corporate 

customers. 

Lee said, “Through these road shows, 

we will introduce LG-Nortel’s total solution 

being applied to corporate communication. 

Based on advanced technology and 

strong competitive power, we will continue 

developing reformative products suitable 

for customers’ needs.” 

The Customer Comes First 

Samsung Internet phones to lead next-generation communication market 

Samsung Networks will place the first 

priority of its managerial strategy on 

offering differentiated quality and 

service to customers in order to keep its 

No. 1 position in the market persistently, a 

senior manager of the company said. 


Times, Chun Hong-kyun, executive 

director of Samsung Networks, a 

subsidiary of the nation’s biggest Samsung 

Group, said, “In 2006, the Internet phone 

market will really be taking off. As 

common carriers such as KT and Hanaro 

and special category telecommunications 

service providers such as SK Telink will 

stage marketing activities in earnest this 

year, the competition in the market is 

likely to be fiercer than ever. 

“To maintain the top position in the 

market under this circumstance, Samsung 

Networks will provide customers with 

high-quality and differentiated products 

and services this year,” said Chun. 

Related to this, Samsung Networks will 

strengthen such telephone-type services as 

call connection voice, Internet fax 

assistance, and voice mail box, while 

bolstering such information-type services 

as interworking of groupware and business 

system as well as voice-recognition 

dialing. 

At the same time, it plans to introduce 

telephone terminal equipped with the short 

message service (SMS) function and 

multimedia function additionally. 

“Along with this, we are planning to 

diversify fares of products in order to help 

customers wide the range of their choices. 

We will also expand the number of agents 

in the country to provide more 

conveniences to customers,” he said. 

As part of its efforts to push for tailormade 

customer services, Samsung 

Networks plans to establish an Internet 

telephone operation team and build a 

systemized customer assistance system. 

The Samsung 070 Internet telephony service is equipped with some 200 various 

convenient additional service. 

In particular, it projects to offer 

potential customers more chances to test 

Internet phone by staging vigorous 

marketing activities in specific regions 

centering on relevant agents. 

“Through these sales promotion 

activities, Samsung Networks aims at 

achieving 40.3 billion won (about $41.5 

million) in turnover and 500,000 in the 

number of subscribers in the Internet 

phone market this year,” he said. 

Asked about differences and 

characteristics of Samsung 070 Internet 

telephony service, Chun said that its first 

pride is outstanding call quality. 

The Samsung 070 service is equipped 

with stable and excellent voice quality 

without noise or delay of delivery, widely 

different from the “Internet phone” of the 

past, he said. 

Samsung 070 Internet telephony 

service adopts voice compression 

corder/decorder of the level of general 

telephone and operates a real-time 

monitoring system for 24 hours a day in 24 

regions in the country to keep high quality. 

In fact, the Samsung 070 service gained 

90 in the voice quality test conducted by 

Telecommunications Technology 

Association (TTA), higher than the 

recommendation measurement price of 70. 

The signal-reaching hour between 

telephones was also less than 120ms for 

the Samsung 070 service, outpacing the 

standard of less than 150ms. It also 

recorded 99.9% in the call success rate, 

showing a high call quality. 

Second merit is low fare. In case of 

using the Samsung 070 Internet telephony 

service, a user can save call charge by the 

maximum 84% for long-distance call, 70% 

of international call, and 18% for mobile 

phones, compared with general call fares 

of the existing telephones. 



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VoIP / Samsung Networks 

The following are excerpts from an interview with Chun 

Hong-kyun, executive director of Samsung Networks: 

Q: What is the meaning of the commercialization of 

the Internet phone, the first in the country? 

A: I think the existing wire telephones have finished their 

duties demanded by the era. With the rapid 

development of technology and advent of 

the ubiquitous era, an existence above telephone 

that can deliver more information 

than existing telephones was needed. The 

right answer to the necessity is Internet 

phone. 

Samsung Networks, which introduced 

the VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service 

in 2001 for the first time in Korea, has 

accumulated technology and know-how. 

At the same time, it has secured the 

52.5Gbps optical communication network 

connecting 64 cities in the nation into one 

and high-quality global network infrastructure 

linking about 400 sites in 70 countries. 

I think such excellent ability and infrastructure 

is the strength to let Samsung 

Networks, the leader in the next-generation 

communication market, keep its No. 1 position in the Internet 

telephone market. 

Q: What do you think about the situation of the 

Internet telephone service market? 

A: The Internet telephone market has been grown at a rapid 

pace. In the United States, the number of subscribers to 

Internet phone already exceeded 2.5 million in 2002 and is 

expected to surpass 7 million before 2007. In Japan, the 

number of subscribers to Internet phone reached 5 million in 

Chun Hong-kyun, executive director 

of Samsung Networks 

June 2003 among 14 million people using Internet. 

Reflective of such a fever, many world-famous IT 

enterprises, including eBAY, MS and Google, took over 

Internet phone-related companies recently. 

Meanwhile, the British biggest communication company 

BT advanced into the Internet phone market directly. 

The volume of the Internet phone market 

is expected to soar from $2.38 billion in 

2005 to $4.1 billion in 2007. 

In the domestic Internet phone market, 

Samsung Networks commercialized the 

Internet phone on Aug. 22 in 2005 for the 

first time in Korea. And since then, a total 

of 12 companies, including KT, Hanaro 

Telecom and SK Telink, are staging stiff 

competition. 

The total sales in the market are likely to 

expand from 197.8 billion won ($204.1 

million) in 2005 to 370 billion won in 2006, 

808.3 billion own in 2008, and further to 

900 billion won ($928.8 million) in 2009. 

Meanwhile, ETRI anticipates that the 

service sales in the Internet phone market 

will reach 5.3 trillion won ($5.5 billion) by 

2010 and jobs for 13,000 people will be 

created in the market. 

Q: Would you introduce Samsung Networks? 

A: Since having started its supplement communication 

business in 1987, Samsung Networks has been continuously 

making fast progress and development as a frontier of global 

information communication enterprises. 

It connects more than 70 countries in the world based on its 

four domestic information network centers and five overseas 

IT centers in the United States, Japan, Britain, and China. 

As calls among main office, branch, 

factory, and business center are offered 

free of charge, users can utilize it freely 

within the company, he explained. 

Along with this, users can receive such 

additional services as caller identification, 

hold while using another call, and conversion 

of receipt of message, free of charge. 

Third characteristic is a variety of additional 

functions. The Samsung 070 Internet 

telephony service is equipped with some 

200 various and convenient additional services 

by using Internet line (LAN line) and 

PC interlocking function. 

“In particular, I think that such functions 

of the Samsung 070 service as clickto-dial, 

simultaneous receipt of calls and 

outside office calls contribute to improving 

business of enterprises,” said Chun. 

Among representative additional services 

of the Samsung 070 services are click 

to dial; receiving call transfer/simultaneous 

receipt of calls; conversion of receipt of 

message; inquiry of details of conversation 

by telephone; hold while using another 

call; connection of designated number; 

multi-number and ringing; and outside 

office calls. 

The Samsung 070 service armed with 

outstanding call quality and various additional 

functions greatly contributes to 

enhancing managerial efficiency of enterprises 

using the service, he said. 

The Samsung service helps consumers 

and enterprises reduce their burden on 

communication expenses by expanding the 

range of their communication choice 

rights. 

Meanwhile, information and communication 

companies will gain benefits stemming 

from improvement of their profit 

structure and infrastructure by using the 

Samsung 070 service. 

At the same time, the profit structure of 

communication providers is expected to 

convert from the voice-oriented one in the 

past to network, contents and other information-centered 

one gradually, said Chun. 

Korea’s Premier e-Commerce Community 

Geoffrey Prentice, Skype’s vice president, 

Strategic Partners 

& Corporate Development. 

Skype technologies forms strategic partnership with 

Auction, Korea’s premier e-Commerce community 

Skype, the global Internet communications 

company, has announced the 

commencement of business in the 

Korean market. 

At a press conference held in the 

Chosun Hotel on Feb.13, Geoffrey 

Prentice, Skype’s Vice President, Strategic 

Partners and Corporate Development 

announced that the company would start its 

localized Internet communication business 

in Korea on a full scale by cooperating 

with IAC (ebay Korea). 

“The business prospects of Korea with 

the world’s leading broadband infrastructure 

is very bright,” says Geoffrey Prentice. 

“With a user community already in excess 

of 75 million registered users globally, 

based on high quality communication 

products and strong relationships with 

Opening its official Korean Web site (www.skype.co.kr) on Feb. 14, Skype plans to 

introduce its leading communication products tailored to address the specific needs of 

Korean users. 

Skype / VoIP 

businesses such as IAC (eBay Korea) we 

expect to increase our reach substantially,” 

adds Prentice. 

Opening its official Korean Web site 

(www.skype.co.kr) on Feb. 14, Skype 

plans to introduce its leading communication 

products tailored to address the specific 

needs of Korean users. 

Major product features Skype will 

advance in Korea are as follows: (‘Skype’, 

a P2P based messenger software enabling 

free, unlimited voice, video and text communications 

between Skype users on PCs 

connected to the Internet ( ‘Skype Out’, a 

low cost way to make calls from Skype on 

PC to others using those traditional landlines 

or mobile phones, and ‘Skype In’, a 

method to receive calls in Skype on PC 

from landlines or mobile phones. 

In addition, Skype provides other 

advanced features such as a conference call 

function enabling free calls with up to 5 

people concurrently, and plans to increase 

the number of participants to 10 people. 

To further the adoption of Skype within 

the Korean market, Skype will enter into a 

strategic partnership with IAC as a Co- 

Branding Partner. 

By providing free communication technologies 

to 15 millions IAC members, IAC 

will also benefit by enabling customers to 

use Skype products more conveniently. 

Besides the above Skype has plans to 

expand in the market by forming strategic 

partnerships with other leading Korean 

sites. 

In commemoration of the official 

Korean web site launching, Skype will 

have sweepstakes event for 1 month, 

Skype will offer various presents like the 

latest mobile phone, PSP, PMP, WebCam 

and USB phone for drawing and free 

vouchers (30 minute phone call) to every 

subscriber. 



2006-03-12006.3.410:49AM페이지58001채널맥(3443-0701) 

On the Scene Report -- iPark Beijing 

Smoothing the Way in China 

iPark Beijing Makes Life Easier for 

Korean Businesses Entering China 

iPark Beijing is the Beijing 

representative office of the Korea IT 

Industry Promotion Agency, an affiliated 

organization of the Ministry of 

Information and Communication. Its 

objective is to support the entry of small 

and mid-sized IT enterprises of Korea 

into the Chinese market. It operates a 

moving-in office and provides assistance 

in seeking business partners and engages 

in public relations activities in promotion 

of Korea’s IT industry. 

iPark Beijing opened its office in 

Zhong Guan Cun in June 2000. Through 

the conclusion of MOUs with not only 

China’s major IT-related institutions but 

also many regional governments, it has 

been pursuing intergovernmental 

cooperation between Korea and China, 

including exchanges of information on 

the IT industry and joint organization of 

various corporate events. 

In particular, iPark Beijing has been 

introducing Korea’s 

latest developments in 

the IT field, such as 

online games and 

mobile services, by 

participating in 

numerous events held 

by local governments, 

thereby playing a 

pivotal role in 

promoting Korea’s IT 

industry in China. 

Jointly with the Korea IT Industry 

Promotion Agency, iPark Beijing holds 

various corporate assistance programs, 

including local 1:1 business consultations 

and others of the like. Not only that, it 

has established a database of over 200 

market channels. Assisted by a large pool 

of local experts with abundant work 

experience, iPark Beijing has been 

introducing prospective business partners 

iPark Beijing CED Mo Young-ju 

that could meet the needs of Korean 

companies. 

In addition, iPark Beijing has been 

supporting Korean companies’ local 

“iPark Beijing plans to continue promoting Korea’s 

promising businesses and products to major opinion 

leaders through various events.” 

operations in China so that they can be 

better placed on a firm footing for their 

marketing operations. It provides 

consultation services for obtaining 

licenses and introduces local business 

agents and partners to Korean companies 

wishing to set up local establishments. 

Through such effort, iPark Beijing 

supports Korean companies that are in the 

initial phase of market entry to be settled 

down as local business entities as soon as 

possible. 

In that sense, iPark Beijing has been 

providing consultation services by not 

only IT market experts but also experts 

on many different fields such as the 

employment and management of 

manpower, investment, law, and holding 

of seminars. Through such efforts, it has 

been assisting Korean companies to better 

handle their operations under the local 

market environment. 

iPark Beijing has been concentrating 

on PR works in areas where Korea has 

relative advantage, including solutions 

and contents related to DMB, WiBro, and 

3G. It has been supporting related 

enterprises so that they can secure an 

upper hand for their overseas operations 

at an early stage. 

iPark Beijing plans to continue 

promoting Korea’s promising businesses 

and products to major opinion leaders 

through various 

events. At the same 

time, it plans to 

utilize major local 

news media and 

unfold many-sided 

PR works to 

promote Korean 

companies as 

genuine business 

partners, not 

competitors, for 

mutual benefits between respective IT 

businesses of both Korea and China. 

Moreover, iPark Beijing, with its competitive 

expertise in the IT field, has been 

and will continue to operate in close cooperation 

with such organizations as the 

Korea Trade-Investment Promotion 

Agency (KOTRA), the Korea International 

Trade Association (KITA), and the 

Electronics and Telecommunications 

Research Institute (ETRI) that have been 

actively engaged in local operations in 

China. 

In 2005, iPark arranged consultation 

meetings for Korean IT companies with 

over 100 local business partners and 

agents. Business consultations have been 

continuing ever since. 

Also, iPark Beijing has been providing 

direct marketing supports. At the same 

time, it has been carrying out market 

surveys and analyses centered on the 

markets that are being newly formed or 

rapidly growing in China, including those 

of 3G, IPTV, and mobile TVs. In 

addition, iPark Beijing has been 

supporting the formulation of marketing 

strategies through such means as the 

publication of reports and the 

organization of all types of seminars and 

forums. This includes arrangement of a 

number of presentation meetings for 

Korea’s new IT products and 

technologies to over 150 companies and 

investors in the region, thereby, 

heightening the level of awareness and 

image of Korean products and services. 

It is already a well-known fact that, 

especially because of the stiff competition 

and the growing capital power of Chinese 

businesses, the barriers to entry into the 

Chinese market by Korean companies, and 

particularly small and medium-sized ones, 

has been solidified. Moreover, this year 

marks the first year of the eleventh fiveyear 

(2006-2010) economic plan of China. 

The Chinese government has announced 

that it plans to concentrate its efforts in 

assisting local companies secure core technologies 

during the five-year period. 

Amidst such business environment, local 

companies in China have been growing at a 

rapid pace, making it ever so difficult for 

Korean companies to contend for any 

achievement in the Chinese market based 

iPark Beijing CED Mo Young-ju at Canton Trade Fair 2005 

on technologies that are not far ahead. 

In such circumstances, iPark Beijing 

plans to step up efforts to provide 

invaluable marketing information and 

consulting services, including legal 

advisory services, so that Korean 

companies can better cope with the 

rapidly changing Chinese market. 

In addition, iPark Beijing plans to 

exert further efforts in support of the 

luring of local investment and M&A’s 

and enhance the productivity growth of 

incumbent services. Also, it plans to 

engage in marketing activities in support 

of Korean exports. 

In 2006, China is expected to issue 3G 

licenses. As a result, there are high 

expectations for the development of 

mobile solutions and value-added 

services. In relation to this, iPark Beijing 

plans to concentrate on the marketing of 

Korean ventures in the fields of 3G, 

DMB, and Wibro, the services of which 

Korea has relative advantage. 

Jointly with the Korea IT Industry 

Promotion Agency, iPark Beijing plans to 

carry out such activities as tailor-made 

market surveys, consultation meetings for 

investment, opening of local channels, 

and PR and investor relations events. 


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Semiconductor Industry / SEMI Korea 

SEMICON Korea 2006 

Sets New Standards 

SEMI Korea president 

Lee Joo-hoon 

SEMI spreads its wings globally in the semiconductor and FPD industry 

The following is an interview with 

SEMI Korea president Lee Joo-hoon on 

the occasion of SEMICON’s 19th 

Anniversary.-Ed. 

Q: First of all, please give us your 

assessment of the SEMICON Korea 

2006 held last month. 

A: SEMICON Korea 2006, the 19th 

anniversary of SEMICON Korea which 

was held at COEX, Seoul, Korea during 

February 8-10, concluded successfully, 

attracting numerous industry leaders and 

executives in the semiconductor and FPD 

industry from all over the world. As the 

largest and most comprehensive industry 

event in Korean market, this year’s 

SEMICON Korea features 432 exhibiting 

companies occupying 1,120 booths, which 

is a more than 10% increase from the 

previous year, showcasing the cutting edge 

technologies new equipment, materials and 

services for the production 

semiconductors, NANO technology 

devices and FPD products. 

Q: How are SEMI Korea’s international 

standard activities? 

A: Since the beginning in 1973, SEMI 

Standards has been spreading globally, 

with as many as 2,500 active members 

worldwide. It can be characterized as 

voluntary based international standards. In 

Korea, as a name of Korea FPD Standards 

Working Group, about 20 members are 

participating in standards activity focusing 

on LCD Backlight Unit (BLU) currently. 

They have released three documents about 

BLU so far and are planning to establish 

the Korea FPD Technical Committee 

covering all aspects of FPD in the future. 

Q: What is SEMI Korea’s plan to 

enlarge SEMICON Korea on the occasion 

of its 20th Anniversary in 2007? 

A: SEMICON Korea 2007, the 20th 

anniversary of SEMICON Korea, is 

expected to host over 500 companies 

occupying 1,300 booths which is about 18 

% increase. SEMI Korea plans to highlight 

its 20TH anniversary by holding opening 

ceremony with industry VIPs, and 

executives. 

Q: Please outline SEMI’s exhibitions 

as well as activities at home and 

abroad. 

A: Specially focused on products and 

services used to manufacture 

semiconductors, display, MEMS and 

related industries, SEMI expositions are 

the preferred international showcases for 

introducing new products, latest 

technological breakthroughs and proven 

solutions. Designed to offer truly global 

exposure, the expositions are held in 

China, Europe, Japan, Korea, Russia, 

Singapore, Taiwan and the United States 

and attract the greatest number of industry 

decision-makers. 

Q: Would you tell us about SEMI 

product and services? 

A: SEMI product and services are 

comprised of the following: 

* Business and Technical Education: 

Industry professionals, business experts, 

respected members of the academic 

community and research institutions 

present the latest technological advances 

and timely industry issues in programs 

scheduled throughout the year. 

* Executive Conferences: SEMI 

assembles key players in the global 

semiconductor industry to learn and 

discuss new ways and opportunities of 

doing business. 

* Industry Research and Statistics: The 

Industry Research and Statistics group 

provides the industry with timely, accurate 

information regarding market size and 

product sales trends for various categories 

of semiconductor capital equipment 

components and microelectronic materials, 

based on actual data reported by industry 

participants worldwide. 

* Public Policy: SEMI has active 

government relations programs in the 

United States, Europe and Asia. These 

programs are dedicated to achieving 

global, free-market access for all SEMI 

members. 

* Global Publishing: SEMI publishes a 

number of media products focused on 

providing concise, insightful and timely 

information that is respected, and relied 

upon, by the global semiconductor 

industry. 

* Industry Initiatives: The SEMI 

Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) 

division focuses on international EHS 

topics, compliance and regulatory issues, 

and the advancement of EHS within the 

semiconductor industry. 

* SEMI Membership: SEMI provides 

members with up-to-date, industry-specific 

information and educational resources, as 

well as opportunities to promote company 

products and services. 


2006-03-12006.3.410:49AM페이지62001채널맥(3443-0701) 

Game Industry / KAIA 

Amusement Arcade Industry Faces Hurdles 

KAIA president Chung Young-Soo 

Time to activate the 

arcade game 

industry and make 

global inroads! 

It is a well-known fact that the game 

industry in Korea already creates 

employment for over 200,000 people, 

operates 30,000 shops and attracts over 30 

million game users with a market 

exceeding 5 trillion won (approx. $5.2 

billion). 

In this regard, game business circles’ 

are striving ceaselessly for the sake of 

game power accomplishment as one of the 

three game powers in the world. 

Associated laws and comprehensive 

activities to accomplish this are briskly 

under way, being aware of the importance 

of the game already, but nevertheless there 

are some serious problems in the whole 

game industry. 

Against this background the Korea 

Amusement Industry Association (KAIA), 

following its inaugural general meeting on 

Jan. 18, 2006 in Seoul, is to enhance social 

awareness about the amusement industry 

as well as to create a firm industry base. It 

aims to unfold game industry-associated 

law, system improvement as well as policy 

alternatives, to identify and to carry out 

middle and long-term strategy tasks for the 

sake of amusement industry promotion, 

and particularly to support arcade game 

industry activation. 

KAIA president Chung Young-Soo, 

who also served as president of the Korea 

Game Development & Promotion Institute 

(KGDI), mentioned that the year 2006 is 

likely to be a very important one, since all 

sorts of preparations related to the enforcement 

of the Game Industry Promotion Law 

in the interests of the second stage advance 

of the industry must be completed. 

To this end, he maintained, not only 

arcade business circles, but also the entire 

game industry business circles should 

devote their energies to industry 

development so that truly perfect laws and 

an effective system can be established. 

Time to make global inroads 

And using this opportunity, Chung 

emphasized in a special interview with 

The Korea IT Times that now is the time 

to make inroads into the world in earnest 

while reconsolidating the domestic game 

industry and consolidating markets. 

In particular, he pointed out that he 

believes many people are aware of the fact 

that the arcade game field holds boundless 

potential market. The president explained 

that he believed, “We have to challenge 

huge markets all over the world in 

earnest”, adding that it accounts for more 

than half of the entire game market both 

nominally and virtually and its scale also 

keeps growing more and more. In this 

context, Chung stresses that it was against 

this background and significance that his 

Association came into being. 

In the meanwhile, the arcade industry 

has been alienated from the government as 

well as related institutions, plus lack of 

social awareness and sympathy. Such 

interest shortage was the cause which 

caused several ill effects, despite the 

boundless possibilities of the arcade 

industry. 

However, Chung has committed 

himself to striving for the promotion of the 

arcade game industry by concentrating all 

sorts of efforts on the epoch-making 

development for the business circles 

themselves. 

In a nutshell, Chung indicates that the 

arcade game market is fragile and its social 

awareness also is not consolidated enough, 

but arcades account for 45% of the global 

market. He further explained that the 

arcade market is presumed to be worth 

roughly 17 trillion won (approx. $17 

billion) at home and arcade development 

for adults forges globally a market of $30 

billion. 

KAIA proclaimed its vision to accomplish exports of $2 billion in the part of arcade by 2010. 

In the light of such development 

possibility, the president says that he 

proposed to accomplish exports of $2 

billion in the part of arcade by 2010 in its 

inaugural general meeting by means of 

industry complex formation for 

competitiveness improvement at home and 

abroad, activation of complex game 

offering business for the purpose of 

domestic market enlargement, boosting 

quality with the standardization of parts 

and technology and so forth. 

Hardware technology insufficiency 

Concerning the activation plan of the 

arcade game industry, the game-veteran 

president proposes that to develop the 

arcade industry, the younger generation 

game activation support, hardware’s 

standardization propulsion, taxation as 

well as turnover transparency and so forth 

should be promoted. 

As for the domestic arcade game 

market, the younger generation arcade 

game market’s stagnation can be named 

first of all due to the emergence of 

competing games such as online game or 

consol game, the absence of killer content, 

excessive regulatory control. 

Particularly, in the case of the younger 

generation game, its stagnation became 

worse with the recent emergence of a 

premium game. 

In contrast the premium arcade market 

has grown rapidly with the permission of a 

gift certificate as an impetus in 2003. 

As to the problems of the arcade game 

market, the president pointed out that the 

money earned in the arcade game market 

is not being reinvested into arcade game 

development, adding that owing to 

excessive focus on one side to control as 

well as evade, the entrepreneur spirit has 

disappeared and social awareness is bad. 

In this connection, he maintained that 

our selection is important as to whether 

associated institutions will approach the 

arcade game as industry or merely see it as 

a control object, in the light of the fact that 

Taiwan has accomplished $2.8 billion with 

premium game-oriented exports in 2003 

whereas the amount of game exports was 

no more than $250 million in 2004 for 

Korea. 

For the sake of accomplishing one of 

the three game powers globally, it is 

necessary to forge a sufficient and close 

cooperation system with the authorities 

concerned of the government and the 

preparation of pan-business circles 

integration measures in the interests of 

game industry’s epoch-making 

development, he concluded. 

“As for the domestic 

arcade game market, the 

younger generation 

arcade game market’s 

stagnation can be named 

first of all due to the 

emergence of competing 

games such as online 

game or consol game, the 

absence of killer content, 

excessive regulatory 

control.” 

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People 

— 

Serving Second Term as 

KADO President 

Son Yeon-gi, 

KADO President 

Son Yeon-gi was reelected 

as the president of the Korea 

Agency for Digital 

Opportunity and Promotion 

(KADO) to serve a second 

three-year term. 

President Son, who 

became the head of the 

Information Culture Center 

of Korea in 2002, said, “For 

the past three years, I had 

focused on alleviating the 

information gap from the 

standpoint of accessibility. 

In the future, I will 

concentrate on maximizing 

the ability to efficiently utilize information,” 

“During the past three years,” President Son continued, “I 

had thought that the information gap should eventually be 

solved through IT. As such, the agency this year will play a 

leading role in bringing about the warm digital world pursued by 

the government.” 

Asked about his ambitions for starting a second term, 

President Son expressed that he is strongly motivated and said 

that the ultimate goal of bridging the information gap begins 

with the productive use of information obtained through IT. 

Accordingly, I will concentrate my energies on bridging the 

information gap from this year.” 

Specifically, he said he plans to provide tailor-made 

information education for all echelons of the society including 

farmers, fishermen, and salaried men, and others. As part of this 

goal, Son said he plans to select and appoint so-called “IT 

leaders” nationwide on a regional basis and assist them in 

carrying out projects to make information-related activities more 

productive. 

“In order to cope with the adverse effects of the informationoriented 

society,” Son continued, “We will provide educational 

materials to elementary students in addition to junior and senior 

high school students and form a consultative body with private 

enterprises and institutions for building up an all-round 

cooperation system.” 

Regarding the scheduled revamping of KADO, he said 

KADO plans to newly establish ‘information gap alleviation 

center’ so that it can devote its energies on preventing the 

adverse effects. 

In the meantime, he said that the Overseas Internet Service 

Team will further strengthen the ‘Digital Hallyu (Korean 

wave)’ projects this year and estimated that the number of IT 

trainees from overseas will reach over 2,000 people by the 

year’s end. 

— 

Deputy Prime Minister 

Kim Reconsiders Support 

Project for Top Scientists 

Kim Woo-shik, Deputy Prime 

Minister and Minister of Science 

and Technology 

Following the recent fraud 

scandal involving Korea’s 

disgraced cloning scientist 

Hwang, the Deputy Prime 

Minister and Minister of 

Science and Technology Kim 

Woo-shik said on Feb. 14 

that the government would 

seriously consider whether or 

not to continue the project 

supporting top scientists. 

Meeting with reporters, 

Kim said, “I agree to the 

principle to find out talented 

people and extend financial 

support to them. However, it 

is questionable whether giving 3 billion won to a single scientist 

is right or not. It is important to set appropriate supporting 

volume and distribute supporting amount impartially.” 

He also said, “The ministry needs to catch up technologies, 

which generate connection effects with basic and original 

technologies, and set aside budgets properly.” 

Meanwhile, Kim’s recognition and comment is widely 

different from the Ministry of Science and Technology’s 

existing policy to continue supporting top scientists by singling 

out No. 2 and No. 3 scientists in the country. 

— 

KIPO to Shorten Patent 

Screening Period to 10 

Months 

Jun Sang-woo, commissioner of Korea Intellectual Property 

Office (KIPO), said that the KIPO plans to shorten the patent 

screening period from 17.6 months in the past to 10 months, the 

shortest in the world, this year. 

Jun Sang-woo, 

commissioner of Korea 

Intellectual Property Office 

Through the effective 

patent screening system, 

KIPO plans to make South 

Korea one of the top six 

countries in the world this 

year in terms of knowledge 

property protection, he said. 

To help universities and 

public research institutions 

bolster their ability to create 

knowledge properties, KIPO 

will also dispatch patent 

management advisers to 10 

universities in the country in 

the first half of this year, Jun 

said. 

In particular, it will build a comprehensive supporting system 

for knowledge properties in three or four universities, including 

KAIST, said the KIPO head. 

At the same time, KIPO will reform its organization 

effectively by converting the present incentive system from a 

promotion-centered one to a remuneration-focused one. 

— 

Former MOCIE 

Minister Selected as 

New Head of KITA 

Lee Hee-beom, 

Chairman of the Korea 

International Trade Association 

South Korea’s former 

Minister of Commerce, 

Industry and Energy Lee 

Hee-beom was named as the 

new chairman of the Korea 

International Trade 

Association (KITA) on Feb 

22. 

This is the first time a 

former top-tier bureaucrat has 

chaired the trade association 

in 15 years. Lee left the 

Ministry of Commerce, 

Industry and Energy in a 

cabinet reshuffle early this 

year. 

Former KITA Chairman Kim Jae-chul drew criticism from 

member companies for paying too little attention to representing 

their interests to the government during his seven-year tenure. 

KITA was established in 1947 to promote the country’s 

exports. More than 67,000 companies mainly consisting of 

SMEs are the members of the trade body. 

Delivering an inaugural speech, the new chairman said, “In 

the past 30 years, I have been engaged only in industrial and 

trade fields. In the future, I will make best efforts to make KITA 

an organization for all members and solve many pending issues 

in the trade industry as soon as possible.” 

He said that KITA will provide member companies with 

high-quality services they actually want. 

“In particular, I will exert all-out efforts to implement 

projects for provincial-based and small and medium-sized 

companies, while staging a nationwide campaign for mutual 

survival between large and smaller enterprises,” he said. 

Lee also stressed the necessity of reform of KITA in keeping 

with a globalization trend. He said, “I will try to enhance the 

status of KITA in the country by making the best use of 

networks related to the government and relevant institutions.” 

First of all, KITA will exert doubled efforts for early 

conclusion of the Korea-U.S. free trade agreement (FTA) and 

the visa waiver pact for Korean entrepreneurs, he said. 

KITA will also build a close cooperative system with 

international trade organizations, while activating exchanges of 

trade missions with major trading partners, including Japan, 

ASEAN, China and Russia. 

Noting that there are many issues KITA has to settle in the 

coming years, the new chairman said that substantial reform is 

needed not only within the association itself but also its 

subsidiaries. 

Accordingly, a considerable change is expected to occur at 

KITA, COEX, Intercontinental Hotels & Resorts, and other 

KITA affiliates. 

He also said, “I will actively push ahead with fair personnel 

management, regardless of fields from which KITA officials 

came.” 

On the merger idea between KITA and KOTRA, Lee said, 

“Certainly, there are areas where the two institutions should 

cooperate with each other. However, as the two institutions have 

their own inherent areas, I think it is not proper to discuss the 

matter at present.” 

Commenting that some owners of small and medium-sized 

trading companies have a negative view on KITA activities, he 

said, “I will often meet with such traders and make best efforts 

to seek proper ways to solve their difficulties.” 

During his inauguration speech, Lee also pledged to prove 

that his background will be used to the utmost benefit of the 

trade industry. He also vowed to improve business conditions 

for traders and help increase exports. 

“If it is for the benefit of the trade industry, I will 

aggressively make proposals and suggestions to the government. 

I am now in a position of representing the industry,” said Lee. 

On the assertion that KITA should change its method to 

select its chairman, Lee said, “It is not a matter for me to decide 

by myself. I will discuss the matter at a directors’ meeting or a 

gathering of KITA chairmen later.” 



2006-03-12006.3.410:49AM페이지66001채널맥(3443-0701) 

People 

— 

New MOCIE Minister 

Outlines Roadmap for 

Year Ahead 

Chung Se-kyun, 


Industry and Energy 

The newly-appointed 


Industry and Energy Chung 

Se-kyun said on Feb. 14 that 

the government will place the 

focus on fostering nextgeneration 

growth engines 

this year. 

Chung said that the 

ministry will strive to 

maintain Korea’s favorable 

export performance, boosting 

domestic consumption, 

easing bipolarization of the 

national economy, and 

fostering the robot industry as 

the nation’s representative brand industry. 

Along with this, it will introduce funds for oilfield 

development, establish companies specialized for development 

of overseas resources and implement an integrated energy 

welfare program for poor people, he said. 

Noting that the present industrial structure consists of some 

enterprises with strong competitiveness and a great number of 

small and medium-sized companies with weak competitiveness, 

Minister Chung said, “High-quality growth means developing 

smaller companies into healthy mid-size companies through 

reforms.” 

He added that the ministry will map out an investment road 

map by industry and business line, while creating legal and 

institutional systems for close cooperation and mutual survival 

between large and smaller companies. 

— 

Shin Bak-jae 

Appointed as 

Chairman of FORCA 

Shin Bak-jae, 

Chairman of FORCA 

Shin Bak-jae, president of 

Philips Korea, has been officially 

approved as the 15th 

chairman of the Korea Foreign 

Company Association 

(FORCA). He will be serving 

as the chairman for two years 

until 2007. 

Chairman Shin was unanimously 

approved by the member 

companies during the regular 

general meeting of FORCA 

on February 21 for having successfully 

served eight months 

of the remaining tenure of his 

predecessor, Chairman Lee 

Jae-hee, who had left the chairmanship in July last year. 

In his inaugural address, Chairman Shin expressed his 

ambition by saying, “I will elevate the status of the Korea 

Foreign Company Association by making policy proposals to 

the government to improve the environment for foreign 

investment, including the living conditions for foreign residents 

in Korea. Moreover, I will concentrate on developing friendship 

and exchange programs in diverse forms for strengthening the 

unity and spreading community bond among member 

companies.” 

Chairman Shin, who had joined Philips in 1974, has worked 

at the company for over 30 years. He has a high reputation for 

having transferred new technologies from Philips into Korea and 

he played a pivotal role in promoting exports of Korean-made 

electronics parts and finished products. 

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2006-03-12006.3.410:49AM페이지68001채널맥(3443-0701) 

India Special 

India Super IT Power 

and Paradise of Wellness 

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President of Hankook Ilbo, Lee Jong-seung, Regional Director of East Asia Tourism, 

Tokyo, G. Venkataraman, and Janice Y.J Ahn, President of Advicom Group, Korea 

India, a favorite destination for individual travelers. 

The following article is based on an 

interview with G. Venkataraman, regional 

director of East Asia for India tourism, 

after the receiving the 6th Korea Web 

Award 2006 - Ed. 

“I’m very happy for India Tourism to 

get the First Prize from the 6th Korea Web 

Award 2006 hosted by Hankook Ilbo in 

the categories of convenience and 

information service. It is proof that the 

Korean government recognized India as an 

IT power, since this Korea web award is 

sponsored by Ministry of Information and 

Communication,” said Gopalakrishnan 

Venkataraman, East Asia regional director 

of India tourism. It was awarded the First 

Prize last February in recognition of many 

outstanding achievements and 

contributions in the field of developing 

Internet business and e-business. The Web 

site is created and hosted by Advicom 

Group in Korea, the Ad&PR Agency of 

India Tourism, Tokyo. 

India has earned a reputation as a health 

and wellness destination, and is now 

seeing a growth in medical tourism, 

according to Venkataraman. Because of its 

developed medical science infrastructure, 

medical tourism in India is on the 

increase,” he added in a recent interview. 

“Because it’s cost-effective and affordable, 

many people from Britain, Europe, the 

Middle East and Southeast Asia come to 

India for treatment, Medical tourism is a 

growing market in India, now worth about 

US$12 billion.” 

Medical Tourism include Ayurveda - 

“science of life” - which provides permanent 

cures for illness, which is based on 

5,000-year-old ancient medicine, using 

herbs and roots that provide natural care, 

according to Venkataraman. 

Not only a medical destination, more 

and more Korean visitors are looking to 

India as a cultural, spiritual, fashion and 

economic destination, Venkataraman said. 

“The world has realized that India has 

many things to offer, not only from a 

tourism point of view, but economic, science 

and technology, biotechnology, pharmaceutical 

and information technology 

point of view,” he said. “India is increasingly 

recognized as a destination with 

many facets;” the regional director pointed 

out. 

India has become a favor destination for 

individual travelers. According to a survey 

conducted by Lonely Planet, an Australian 

travel guide publisher, in 2005, India 

ranked second in the list of 10 popular destinations 

for individual travelers after 

Australia. The United States ranked third 

and Japan fourth. 

To promote tourism, India launched a 

three-year campaign called Atithi Devo 

Bhava(ABD) last year. Atithi Devo Bhava 

means “The visitor is a god” in Sanskrit. 

“We are looking at tourists as gods. If 

Korean people come to India, we treat 

them as gods,” Venkataraman said. 

We have 28 world Heritage Sites 

approved by UNESCO and, in addition, 

each prefecture and each province in India 

has a different culture,” he said. “If you go 

to India, you can see a world of different 

lifestyles.” 

Top IT destination in the world 

“We are increasingly known as an IT 

destination and India Tourism launched a 

campaign called ‘IT with Beauty’ in the 

Far East,” Venkataraman said. “The campaign 

combined India’s IT prowess with 

picturesque places and beautiful people of 

India. India’s Miss Universe and Miss 

World, who held the center stage for many 

years, have become India’s brand ambassadors 

to enhance the country’s image.” 

Venkataraman also said that his office 

packages IT tours in collaboration with IT 

companies in India that have started giving 

project-management and IT-related training 

to staff of companies abroad, as well as 

providing IT tourists with information 

about places of interest to visit during their 

stay. 

“Incredible India” Brand 

India is in the world market with the 

brand name Incredible India. South Korea 

is an important primary market for India. 

India Tourism, Tokyo launched several 

promotional campaigns in South Korea by 

participation in all travel shows held in 

South Korea and organizing road shows, 

Agent seminars, university promotion as 

well as working in collaboration with 

Airlines and organizing familiarization 

tours for media and travel agents. 

India Tourism, Tokyo, recently 

launched aggressive marketing to promote 

destination India through electronic media 

such as TV channels like travel & leisure 

channels, subway advertisements in Seoul 

and Busan, LED display advertisements in 

Seoul. 

The South Korean brands such as LG, 

Samsung, are house hold names in India. 

And India is attracting a lot of South 

Korean investments. Similarly, lot of 

Korean want discover India and walk with 

Buddha to have spiritual satisfaction by 

touring places of Buddhist importance as 

India is land of Buddha. Now, many 

Korean travelers visit Ayurveda and Yoga 

centers in India to sooth and pamper Body, 

Mind and Soul, said Venkataraman 

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India Special 

Incredible India 

Korean Flocking to India for Healthcare, 

Tourism and Buddhist Roots 

India is in the world market with the brand name “Incredible 

India.” South Korea is an important primary market for India. 

India Tourism, Tokyo, has launched several promotional campaigns 

in South Korea. Aggressive marketing is being carried out 

to promote destination India through electronic media such as travel 

and leisure channels, subway advertisements in Seoul and 

Busan, and LED display advertisements 

in Seoul. 

The South Korean brands such as LG, 

Samsung, are household names in India. 

And India is attracting a lot of South Korean investments. 

Similarly, many Korean want to discover India and walk with 

Buddha to have spiritual satisfaction by touring places of Buddhist 

importance as India is the “Land of Buddha.” Now, many Korean 

travelers visit Ayurveda and Yoga centers in India to sooth and 

pamper “Body, Mind and Soul.” 

India is fast earning a global reputation as a health and healing 

destination. The country’s contribution in healthcare as well as the 

well-being of humanity has been well recognized, which directly 

resulted in the rapid growth of medical tourism to India. The 

Ayurveda means “science of the life” which provides permanent 

cures to illness, based on 5,000 years old ancient medicine derived 

from herbs and roots that provide natural cures. Similarly one can 

be fit always to face the challenges of the life and work environment 

through regular Yoga practice. Yoga is now a way of life 

worldwide. All this amplifies India’s reputation 

as a wellness destination. 

India’s star is shining brightly in all 

fields, such as its robust economy with a 

large consumer market, advanced science and technology with a 

huge reservoir of skilled personnel, and carving a niche in biotechnology 

and pharmaceuticals - to name but a few. 

A powerhouse of knowledge 

India has now became the world’s second largest reservoir of 

trained manpower - with 290 universities, 1,500 research institutes 

and more than 10,000 centers of higher learning. These 

institutions produce more than 2 million graduates 300,000 non- 

Unspoilt beaches of India’s offshore islands. 

engineering post-graduates more than 

200,000 engineers and over 10,000 Ph.Ds 

every year. India tops the availability of 

qualified engineers, thus adding to the 

knowledge pool. 

An IT destination 

India is fast emerging as a leading IT 

destination because of its expertise in information 

technology with addition of qualified 

technologist to the knowledge pool of 

the country. As per the latest data available 

in 2005 India accounted for more than 80 

percent of outsourcing software development 

as well as BPO business from all over 

the world especially from the United States 

and Europe. India has emerged as the major 

suppliers of software and information technology 

goods and services. Although the 

growth remains strong in the main IT service 

and product sector the fastest growing 

segment is IT services and business process 

outsourcing, which includes call centers 

billing and payment services and technical 

and customer support. 

IT with beauty 

Taking advantage of India’s emergence 

as an IT destination, India Tourism, Tokyo 

launched a promotional campaign 

popularly known as IT with beauty. The 

campaign combined India strength and IT 

prowess with beautiful places and 

picturesque locals of India. India’s Miss 

Universe and Miss World who held center 

stage for many years have became India’s 

brand Ambassadors to enhance the 

country’s image. India tourism, Tokyo 

also packaged IT tours in collaboration 

with IT companies in India which have 

started giving project management and IT 

related training to staff companies abroad 

along with providing visits to tourist 

attractions during their stay. These IT tours 

are increasingly becoming popular in 

Japan, Taiwan and Korea. 

Fascinating India 

India has now become a favorite 

destination for individual travelers 

according to the Lonely Planet travel 

guide, which lists the countries for 

recommended travel experience. 

India ranks second in the list of 10 

countries. Similarly, India increasingly 

becoming a magnet for adventure vacations 

in 2004 India moves to 5th position 

from 36th in 2003 according to Chicago 

based I- Explore Agency. Some of Asia’s 

unique products came from India such as: 

The most romantic meals on the floating 

market in Dal Lake Kashmir, India. 

The best beaches you can find, beach No. 

5 and No.7 Havalok Island in Andaman & 

Nicobal Islands in India. 

The best place to indulge while serving 

the planet - The Green Hotel in Mysore, 

India 

The best urban oasis - Lodhi Garden, 

New Delhi, India - according to Time 

Magazine. 

Mahamastakabhisheka 

The event of a lifetime unfolds at 

Mahamastakabhisheka, one of the most 

important religious events, and one that 

occurs only once in every 12 years, took 

place last month! The grand event, the 

head anointing ceremony of Lord Bahubali 

who stands serenely atop a hill in 

Shravanabelagola in Hassan District in 

Karnataka State, South India, was held 

from February 8-19, 2006. 

An ancient town overlooked by two 

rocky hills, Chandragiri and Indragiri, 

Shravanabelagola draws over 30 lakh 

devotees from across the world who throng 

to the place to seek solace at the feet of the 

colossal monolith of Lord Gomateshwara, 

a perfect testimony of compassion, serenity, 

sacrifice and grace. 

The devotees include believers not just 

from the Jain community, but cutting 

through barriers of caste, creed, and religion. 

During the 10-hour ceremony, priests 

climb the 618 steps leading to the 57 foot 

monolith, the largest in the world, and 

empty hundreds of pots of tender coconut, 

sugarcane juice, milk, rice flour, turmeric 

paste, kashaya (a herbal concoction), shrigandra 

(sandal paste), chandana (colored 

sandal paste), ashtagandha (eight varieties 

of sandal paste), saffron, gold and silver 

flowers, and precious stones. 

A spectacular finale to this splendid ceremony 

is a shower of flowers from a helicopter. 

India World Heritage Tour 

India has 28 UNESCO World Heritage 

Sites. India Tourism, Tokyo offers 13 

World Heritage sites in a 10-day tour 

called India World Heritage Tour starting 

from New Delhi and ending in Mumbai. 

It is a journey of mind and soul 

It is a journey of the five senses 

It is a journey of self-discovery 

It is a journey of self-fulfillment 

This article was contributed by the 

Regional Director, India Tourism, Tokyoed. 



2006-03-12006.3.410:49AM페이지72001채널맥(3443-0701) 

IT Essay 

Digital Hallyu (V) 

Applying Digital Technology to Korea’s ‘Hallyu’ Boom 

By Cho Yong-jun 

Cho Yong-jun, 

Executive Director, Division of 

Public Relations & Projects of the 

PR Business Team, KADO 

The following is the fifth in a six-part 

series of articles on “Blue Ocean of 

Digital Hallyu (the Korean Wave)” 

contributed by Cho Yong-joon, Executive 

Director, Division of Public Relations & 

Project of the Korea Agency for Digital 

Opportunities and Promotion (KADO). _ 

ED. 

On May 12, LG Electronics held a 

seminar at the LG Center in Dubai 

with some 200 women from the 

upper classes of the Middle East country in 

attendance. 

The main subject of the event, the fifth 

of its kind in Dubai since September 2004, 

was skincare. 

Like Samsung, LG Electronics has 

placed the focus of its marketing activities 

on encouraging women’s social activities. 

If there is a difference between the two 

electronics makers, LG marketing is more 

homelike, friendly and smaller scale than 

Samsung. 

The main purpose of the Dubai seminar 

was to introduce “Soladom,” a halogen 

light wave range of LG Electronics. Right 

after the seminar, two LG officials, who 

flew to Dubai from Korea, explained the 

differences between the new light wave 

range and the existing microwave oven 

and held actual cooking practice hours. 

Like this, LG marketing is chiefly a 

living adhesion-type, whereas Samsung 

marketing is an outdoor-type. It is natural 

for LG Electronics whose portion of white 

goods to total products is much higher than 

Samsung. 

The outstanding feature of the 

marketing activities of LG Electronics is 

high-quality kinship. For a good example, 

despite the threat from war, LG 

Electronics signed a sponsorship contract 

with the national football team of Iraq in 

Baghdad in Iraq in March 2004. 

Under the contract, LG Electronics 

should play a role of an official sponsor 

for the Iraqi national football team and the 

Olympic team for the coming two years, 

whereas the Iraqi Football Association 

should use the LG logo on all books and 

websites controlled by the association and 

Iraqi players should wear uniforms 

“Advertisement may 

have short-term effects. 

Accordingly, we should 

acquire localization in 

globalization.” 

carrying the LG logo until March 2006. 

LG Electronics earned more-than 

expected effects from the $1 million 

sponsorship for the two years as the Iraqi 

team entered the ranks of the top four in 

the Athens Olympic Football Games. It 

goes without saying that LG enjoyed 

excellent sales in Iraq. 

But, the decision on LG’s support for 

the Iraqi football team was not made so 

easily. Kim Ki-ho, executive director in 

charge of the Middle East and Asia of LG 

Electronics, said, “When the Iraqi national 

football team was suffering from a 

shortage of money to buy uniforms and 

balls, we sent 2,000 balls to the team. 

Later, we concluded a sponsorship 

contract with the Iraqi team when all Iraqi 

players, directors, association chairman, 

and LG officials clasped hands with each 

other and cried. Like that SK reminds us of 

a scholarship program, marketing activities 

should be carried out on a long-term basis 

like a cow.” 

The “steady and long-lasting skinship 

like cow” has been well attested by LG 

Electronics’ 10-year trade with its 90 local 

agents in the Middle East and 28-year 

trade with its local agents in Jordan. 

Besides, LG Electronics has held free 

operation programs for harelips and those 

suffering from cataracts in Morocco, 

Kenya, Egypt, Pakistan and Jordan. 

It has also organized the LG Cup 

Football Contest in the Middle East and 

Asian regions for 13 years, while holding 

“Africa Carnival” for residents in Kenya, 

Senegal, Mali, Ghana and other African 

countries. 

Like this, it is clear that LG Electronics 

stands in the vanguard of the “Digital 

Hallyu (the Korean Wave)” with its 

promotion activities adhesive to local 

residents. 

Kim suggested the direction of the 

Digital Hallyu, saying, “Advertisement 

may have short-term effects. Accordingly, 

we should acquire localization in 

globalization. If people in Korea need 

‘kimchi’ refrigerators, those in the Middle 

East need refrigerators containing jujubes 

and coconuts. By doing these matters very 

well, we can achieve the per capita 

national income of $20,000.” 

Then, what shall we do for successful 

Digital Hallyu fever? 

The first step we should take is 

“digitalization of Hallyu.” 

To ensure a more effective Hallyu 

boom, we need to manufacture and 

integrate various Hallyu phenomena and 

contents with online digital contents. 

In a nutshell, we should increase 

exports by processing Hallyu contents 

with advanced digital technology. It refers 

to the nation’s exports of movies and 

music in a form of digital TV, mobile 

broadcasting, online game and MP3. 

It is closely linked with diversification 

of Hallyu contents supply channels 

through such new media as home network, 

telematics, digital media broadcasting 

(DMB) and mobile Internet. 

Related to this, some private enterprises 

are mulling over ways of building a 

contents distribution network (CDN), 

which can transmit Hallyu contents to 

foreign countries freely through the 

Internet. 

For instance, they are seeking ways to 

offer domestic contents for online video on 

demand (VOD) to Korea and Japan or 

Korea, the U.S. and Japan simultaneously 

through IP. 

In a similar example, Arirang TV 

concluded a contract with Nagoya TV of 

Japan on June 7 last year for free exchange 

of broadcasting video through a bilateral 

IP transmission system. 

Another urgent priority is construction 

of a single portal site representing Hallyu. 

For instance, we can attain great 

synergy effects by combining homepages 

of Korean stars that are now scattered 

separately according to entertainment 

planning companies. 

If we build a single site on which users 

can make easy access to all movements, 

photos and other materials of Hallyu stars 

by just making a login, we can find out 

Blue Ocean that will bring about new 

dimension of profits for us. 

As a second step, we should adopt a 

strategy to spread digital Hallyu. We need 

to convert the paradigm of the Korean 

economy through new platforms such as 

Korean-made digital technology, products 

and services, while spreading people’s 

recognition of this. 

Although the 21st century is a century 

of technologies, including IT, BT and NT, 

it goes without saying that we cannot 

make a great success just with technology 

itself. 

In other words, we can succeed only 

when combining high technology and 

human touch. 

In particular, such a rule is well applied 

to the information and communication 

sector. In general, people do not want the 

IT as an accumulation body of a cold 

semiconductor chip. Rather, they want 

warm and friendly something they can 

communicate. 

Accordingly, it is very stupid to 

compete with rivals with only superiority 

of technology and products in the digital 

product, technology and service market 

(red ocean). The competitiveness of 

product is a basis. We need to add 

software, including package and 

symbolization work, to the basis. 

Buying a product means the selection 

of an image and a taste actually. For 

instance, Anycall in the overseas market is 

not a simple mobile phone, but a “cultural 

taste” called Samsung. 

Most Danish products carry a sign, 

“Design by Denmark,” not “Made in 

Denmark.” It indicates that Denmark 

boasts of being a design powerhouse in the 

world. 

In the same meaning, Samsung 

Electronics goods in some regions carry a 

mark of “Made in Korea by Samsung” or 

“Made in China by Samsung,” placing 

more emphasis not on the manufactured 

place but on the company name Samsung. 

We can find the same reason from our 

preference of Sony products carrying a 

mark of “Made in Japan” in the past, 

rather than those carrying “Made in 

China” or “Made in the Philippines.” 

As a means of spreading digital Hallyu, 

accordingly, we should speed up the 

national brand corporate image (CI) work. 

To let foreign consumers have a mind to 

experience nice digital environment or buy 

top-end Korean digital products by visiting 

Korea, we should provide them with 

something “cool.” 



2006-03-12006.3.410:49AM페이지74001채널맥(3443-0701) 

MIC News 

M1 Project to Make Korea Global Mobile Leader 

MIC aims to forge a “100% M-Literacy, 0% M-Virus” environment 

With a view to transforming Korea 

into the “Mobile No. 1 country” to 

lead the global market by 2010, the 

Ministry of Information & Communication 

(MIC), is driving forward the M1 (Mobile 

Number One) Project. 

Now that the world is switching over to 

a mobile-centered society (a “Brave New 

Mobile World”?), global mobile telecom 

markets also are faced with a rapid technology 

evolution and changes. Mobile-oriented 

convergence creates new value-added 

industries through the combination with 

other industries such as mobile, finance, 

medical treatment, and traffic, breaking 

down boundaries between industries. 

Korea’s mobile industry, possessing 

technology and market competitiveness, is 

being deemed as the most promising field 

to accomplish early national income of 

$20,000 and the entry into a $30,000 era. 

In other words, the domestic mobile telecom 

industry which possesses technology 

as well as market competitiveness, is being 

regarded as the core growth engine for 

Korea to advance into the era of national 

income $20,000 per head and thereafter the 

$30,000 era. 

“With its vision to build Korea into a Global Mobile No. 

1 Country,” MIC aims to forge 100% M-Literacy, and a 

0% M-Virus environment, to accomplish 10 million 

subscribers Mobile Broadband, and to secure 30% of 

world terminal market, 50% of world mobile terminal 

core parts market, as well as 15% of world B3G system 

market respectively.” 

At the moment, Korea has the highest 

mobile line-up, which attracts a wide earlyadapter 

consumer class thanks to CDMA 

commercial system development for the 

first time in the world and terminal manufacturers 

of the third and the fourth position 

in the world. 

MIC officials responsible for the M-I 

Project note that it is necessary to create 

new value-added and creation opportunities 

by nurturing the mobile industry to 

gain an advantageous position moving 

ahead of others strategically. In a nutshell, 

it is necessary to nurture the mobile industry 

intensively as the most effective field of 

new national wealth creation since it is a 

hub industry of the IT industry as well as 

simultaneously a hub industry of convergence-model 

industry structure. 

With its vision to build Korea into a 

Global Mobile No. 1 Country,” MIC aims 

to forge 100% M-Literacy, and a 0% M- 

Virus environment, to accomplish 10 million 

subscribers Mobile Broadband, and to 

secure 30% of world terminal market, 50% 

of world mobile terminal core parts market, 

as well as 15% of world B3G system 

market respectively. 

As the strategy to make this vision a 

reality, MIC is planning to construct a 

“Mobile Special District,” which can use 

diverse services in a specific district by utilizing 

mobile communication. In addition 

to such Mobile Special District construction, 

the M-1 Project aims to forge a 

mobile life environment in which mobile 

users can conveniently and safely, anytime 

and anywhere. This will, secure Korea’s 

technological competitiveness and superiority 

to lead global markets through nextgeneration 

mobile technology development, 

as well as standardization activity 

strengthening. This will create a whole 

new mobile business environment, such as 

mobile content industry activation, as well 

as actively nurturing the mobile SW field, 

and forming a solid foundation for the 

mobile industry’s continuous growth by 

nurturing creative manpower and a solid 

industry infrastructure. 

Especially in conjunction with the 

“Mobile Special District,” MIC officials 

explained, “MIC will construct a next-generation 

mobile service utilization district as 

a test-bed which can use various services 

without an obstacle of technology and standardization 

in a Special District by utilizing 

diverse mobile terminals. 

MIC has further plans to promote Korea 

as a Free Technology Zone (FTZ) to 

enhance product competitiveness with curtailment 

of the development period as well 

as timely market entry, plus supporting 

innovative product development through a 

free test/experience environment. 

Open a Window to 

the IT World 

Korea IT Times: 


Chin Dae-je, minister of information and communication, 

and Frans Hampsink, chairman of EUCCK, signed a MOU 

for IT cooperation on February 9. 

The IT trade between Korea 

and the European Union is 

expected to grow further, based 

on the growing ties between the 

two regions in the IT field. 

On February 9, Chin Dae-je, 

minister of information and 

communication, and Frans 

Hampsink, chairman of the 

European Union Chamber of 

Commerce (EUCCK), signed 

an MOU for cooperation in the 

IT field. 

The signing of the agreement 

is expected to provide a 

momentum for Korean SMEs 

to boost their IT exports. So 

far, Korean SMEs in the IT 

field have experienced difficulties 

in making inroads into the 

European market due to the 

lack of information and business 

networks. In addition, the 

advancement into Europe of 

technological developments 

such as DMB and WiBro, the 

end results of IT839 strategy, is 

anticipated to gain momentum 

through the assistance of 

EUCCK. Furthermore, the 

MIC News 

MIC and EUCCK Sign an Agreement for IT Cooperation 

signing of the cooperation agreement is 

expected to enliven the bilateral trade in 

the IT field. 

Minister Chin Dae-je said, “The signing 

of an MOU for IT cooperation between 

MIC and EUCCK is highly meaningful for 

both sides, and was made possible through 

relentless talks between government and 

industry leaders to further invigorate IT 

exchanges between the two regions.” 

In response to Minister Chin’s remarks, 

Hampsink said he was pleased to sign the 

agreement since EUCCK, too, can share 

Korea’s experience in achieving remarkable 

progress in the IT field. He said that 

he has high expectations the agreement can 

play an important role in enhancing IT 

exchanges in the future. 

The contents of the agreement for accelerating 

IT exchanges and cooperation 

between the two sides include continuous 

exchanges of information for the elimination 

of investment barriers, SME and R&D 

cooperation, and systematic assistance by 

EUCCK for any Korean projects launched 

under the auspices of MIC with an aim to 

make advancement into Europe. As part of 

measures to carry out the agreement, the 

two sides also agreed to hold regular meetings 

and seminars at least once a year each. 

MIC and MOCT Sign MOU on ‘u-City’ Construction 

On February 6, the Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) and 

the Ministry of Construction and Transportation (MOCT) signed a memorandum 

of understanding (MOU) on the construction of “u-Cities.” 

Through the signing of the MOU, the two ministries agreed to comprehensively 

cooperate with regard to the following objectives: the revamping of the legal 

system for the construction of “u-Cities”, the development and certification of ‘u- 

City’ models, carrying out of trial projects for “u-Cities” construction, the selection 

and execution of “u-City” tasks, the exchanges of information and manpower, 

and the fostering of professional manpower related to “u-City” projects. 

In “The Policy Directives for the Year 2006” announced following the signing 

ceremony, MIC and MOCT stated that they will concentrate on enacting “The 

Law for Supporting “u-City” Construction” and developing “u-City” models. 



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ICT News Panorama 

Local Government— Busan 

Busan Aims to Host 

the 17th World Congress on ITS 

With the successful organization of 

the Asia-Pacific Economic 

Cooperation (APEC) summit last 

year as the stepping stone, the Busan City 

plans to host the prestigious 17th World 

Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems 

(ITS) which will be of the biggest size in 

the world for its kind. 

Busan has requested to organize the 

17th World Congress on Intelligent 

Transport Systems (ITS) to be held in the 

year 2010. AT present, it is competing 

with Melbourne, Australia, for the final 

selection. 

An official of the Transportation 

Planning Department of Busan City said, 

“We submitted a letter of intent for the 

inducement of the congress (The 17th 

World Congress on Intelligent Transport 

Systems (ITS)) in October last year. And 

we have been steadily carrying out PR 

activities ever since.” 

He explained, “The significance of 

hosting it is that world-class technologies 

and equipments of intelligent transport systems 

(ITS) can be seen in one place and 

that the image of the high-tech convention 

city of Busan can be publicized widely.” 

This World Congress on Intelligent 

Transport Systems (ITS) will be the 

world’s biggest conference and exhibition 

in the field of intelligent information systems 

in which over 5,000 official participants 

from over 50 countries will take part. 

Until now, there have been 12 congresses 

in the three continents of Europe, North 

America, and Asia, with the last one being 

held in San Francisco last year. This year 

the congress will be held in London, Great 

Britain. 

The inspection team for conducting surveys 

of the candidate cities for the selection 

of the city for the organization of the 

congress visited Busan City on a three 

“We submitted a letter of intent for the inducement of 

the congress in October last year. And we have been 

steadily carrying out PR activities ever since.” 

nights and four days schedule from 

February 22. 

Taking this as an opportunity, the policy 

of the Busan City is to exert all-out efforts 

for the inducement of the World Congress 

on ITS. This is because it is forecast that if 

the city succeeds in inducing the World 

Congress on ITS there will be great positive 

effects on the acceleration of the 

development of Busan in the ITS field and, 

at the same time, on the improvement of 

the status of the city as a city for tourism 

and conventions. 

Especially, the establishment of the 

high-tech transportation system within the 

city of Busan until now can be publicized 

both internally and externally. And, 

through the congress and an exhibition, the 

technological know-how that needs supplementation 

can be benchmarked. 

Also, because of the exhibition technology 

and the special features of the items of 

exhibition of this congress, the congress 

has been held only in big cities of advanced 

countries in North America, Europe, and 

others. Hence, it is expected that the image 

of Busan as a high-tech city will be 

improved. 

And, there are high expectations that the 

large size spectators, other than the official 

companies participating and officials concerned, 

will contribute to the establishment 

of the image of Busan as an international 

city for tourism and conventions as pursued 

by the city. 

Accordingly, the Busan City and ITS 

Korea will concentrate on the explanation 

of the successful organization of ITU 

(International Telecommunication Union) 

Telecom Asia in 2004 and the APEC summit 

last year to the inspection team. 

They will introduce BEXCO, an 

international convention facility, the 

Nurimaru APEC House, a dining facility, 

the Asiad Main Stadium, the Suyeongman 

Yacht Marina, and others. 

Next, they plan to concentrate on highlighting 

ITS facilities, including the present 

situation of the progress of the Busan 

u-City project, the Information Center of 

the National Police Agency, the Busan Port 

Automation System, the Freight 

Automation System of the Busan Regional 

Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Office, the 

high-tech transportation information system, 

etc. 

Samsung Forms Alliance for 

Standardization of Portable IT Devices 

An international alliance, led by Samsung Electronics, has 

been founded to set international standards for portable IT 

devices. 

On February 21, Samsung Electronics announced that it has 

formed the PictSync Consortium jointly with foreign firms, 

including Epson, HP, IDS, Olympus, PortalPlayer, and others, 

and that the consortium will prepare standards for heightening the 

compatibility among products, including digital cameras, camera 

phones, PMP’s, TVs, and others. 

This is the first time that the world’s major players have 

formed a consortium for mutual compatibility among portable IT 

products. 

The consortium plans to co-develop PictSync technology, 

which can freely transmit photographs and videos, stored in different 

kinds of devices- including digital cameras, MP3 players, 

cellular phones, and others- by directly connecting the devices 

without using a PC. 

Meanwhile, Samsung Electronics has been aggressively pursuing 

the standardization of future-generation IT devices and 

platforms, including the creation of the High-Definition Audio- 

Korea and Guatemala Conclude 

IT Cooperation Agreement 

On February 21, Jin Dae-je, the Korean Minister of 

Information and Communication, and Jorge Briz, the Foreign 

Minister of Guatemala concluded a Korea-Guatemala IT cooperation 

agreement. They stated that they agreed to strengthen cooperation 

in the areas of digital multimedia broadcasting, mobile 

telecommunications, cyber security, the cultivation of IT manpower, 

super-high speed Internet, and others. 

In addition to the signing of the IT cooperation agreement, 

Minister Jin Dae-je had a meeting with the Guatemalan Minister 

Briz during which he introduced and explained the development 

of Korea’s IT. And he expressed his hope that Korea will become 

a good partner for the development of the IT of Guatemala, which 

has been actively pursuing informatization recently. Minister 

Briz stated that he highly evaluates Korea’s IT technology and 

development and that Guatemala, too, very much hopes for cooperation 

with Korea. He said that he has high expectations that the 

conclusion of the agreement this time will prove to be an opportunity 

for IT cooperation between the two countries. 

Based on the IT cooperation agreement, the Ministry of 

Information and Communication plans to actively pursue the 

invitational training of Guatemalan manpower, the dispatch of 

Video Network Alliance (HANA) for capturing the domestic 

‘Digital Home’ market. 

Currently, the six companies participating in the PictSync 

Consortium have been discussing the standard specifications. 

They plan to announce precise specifications at an exhibition to 

be held in the United States at the end of February under the 

supervision of the Photo Marketing Association (PMA) 

International. 

Eoh Kil-soo, managing director of Samsung Electronics, said, 

“Although, it is possible to view photographs on TV if you connect 

a digital camera with an AV cable, each product has a different 

AV cable. Accordingly, the methods of making contents compatible 

are different and complicated.” 

He explained, “The special feature of PictSync is that it has 

simplified the process of sending and receiving contents with one 

cable like USB.” 

Samsung Electronics plans to not only expand its portable digital 

device market through PictSync standardization but also 

unfold the PictSync license business in the future. 

youth Internet service teams, and others of the like. 

Prior to the signing of the IT cooperation agreement this time, 

Rafael Salazar, the Guatemalan ambassador to Korea, and Roh 

Jun-hyong, the Korean Vice Minister of Information and 

Communication, had a preliminary talk. There, the ambassador 

had expressed the strong intention of Guatemala regarding the 

concluding of an IT cooperation agreement with Korea and had 

asked for active support. 

Global Semiconductor Market 

to Grow 9.5% to $258 billion 

The global semiconductor market is expected to grow by 9.5% 

from the previous year to $258 billion in 2006, a market survey 

institution Gartner said on Feb. 15. 

In 2008, the global semiconductor market will enjoy the 

biggest boom with the market volume expanding by 14% to $314 

billion, it anticipated. 

It also forecast that the annual average growth rate will remain 

at 7.9% between 2006 and 2010. 



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New President’s Cup E-sports Contest Announced 

KDC’s 3-D LCD mass production line is completed 

The President’s Cup E-sports Contest in Korea will soon be a 

reality. At The International E-sports Festival (IEF) 2006 press 

gathering held at the Broadcasting Hall on February 21, Jeong, 

Chung-lae of the ruling Uri Party and Chairman of the Gathering 

of National Assemblymen for the Development of E-sports and 

the Game Industry, said “The government, the ruling party, and 

the e-sports industry have jointly formed a task force and have 

been pursuing the President’s Cup E-sports Contest.” 

It can be interpreted from the fact that the President’s Cup E- 

sports Contest will be founded that, 10 years after it had quickened 

in its womb, e-sports has received the official national 

recognition as a formal sports event that lives up to its reputation. 

As such, it is forecasted that it will function as a new catalyst for 

not only the popularization of e-sports but also the invigoration of 

the related market. 

According to the plan, for the President’s Cup’s E-sports 

Contest, the formation of organizing committees by 16 cities and 

provinces is indispensable. And in the future, these will be 

expanded into the city and province branches of Korea E-sports. 

It is said that Chairman Jeong met with Dr. Kim, Jung-kil, the 

President of the Korea Sports Council, and that they have reached 

a general consensus regarding such a plan. 

Once the 16 city and province branches of E-sports are created, 

the Korea Sports Council’s prior condition for organizational 

membership of the formation of 11 or more city and province 

branches gets satisfied. Naturally, the way will then be open for 

e-sports to be recognized as a formal athletic event registered 

with the Korea Sports Council. 

“Day of Electronics” Has 

Been Designated 

The “Day of Electronics” has been designated to commemorate 

the nation’s breakthrough of $100 billion in exports. 

The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy has set the 

third Tuesday of every October as the “Day of Electronics.” 

It also suggested the vision for 2015 when the nation will 

achieve its target of 590 trillion won in total production, $300 billion 

in exports, and 14% in the nation’s share of the global market. 

In 2015, the ministry also plans to let the nation’s electronics 

industry rank third in the world, boasting the status of digital 

powerhouse. 

Korea’s representative system network specialist group KDC 

(Korea Digital Communications Corp.) has constructed 3-D 

(three-dimensional) LCD panel mass production line for the first 

time in Korea. 

Marked by a ceremony for the completion of the building held 

on Feb. 27, 2006, KDC has equipped itself with a high-density 

control clean room production facility from 2.2” small-sized LCD 

process line through 21” middle-sized LCD fabrication line. 

KDC’s officials responsible for this 3-D LCD mass production 

line said that through three-dimensional panel supply of all sorts 

standards, these will be provided to all mobile and multimedia 

machinery and tools in which 3-D materialization is possible, 

including TV, cellular phone, PDA, game machine, PC monitor. 

Deciding on the 3-D screen industry as a national-policy project 

of the government, called “3-D Vision 2010”, Korea’s 

Ministry of Information & Communication, has announced that 

the government would proactively pursue 3-D screens in various 

fields such as broadcasting, telecom, and game etc. until 2010. 

Accordingly, experts forecast that a new huge market of 

domestic information household electronics as well as information 

telecom parts will be created and this will be nurtured as a 

next-generation export, with the core engine project to link cellular 

phones and semiconductors. 

It has been revealed that KDC has embarked upon joint development 

with venture start-up “Masterimage” holding the highest 

technology power at home and abroad regarding this technology 

to be able to view 3-D screen images without wearing specific 

glasses. 

The two companies have concluded a strategic agreement for 

R&D, mass production, and marketing including mutual capital 

investment. 

KDC officials added that the Group has a firm supply contract 

under way with mobile, multimedia machinery and tools, game 

machine development firms and so forth. 

With this mass production line completion as an impetus, 

KDC raised its turnover goal in this field alone from an initial 20 

billion won (approx. $20.5 million) to 30 billion won (approx. 

$30.8 million). 

As the main project of this year, KDC plans to maximize same 

business’ synergy effects by making inroads into the multimedia 

machinery and tool development and content business of the convergence 

of broadcasting amd telecom, including 3-D screen 

business. 

Wine & Women Korea - “Wine Around the World” 


Seoul welcomes a new innovative and inspiring new club 

where wine and women are the key focus. The Europe-Korea 

Foundation (EKF) announces Wine & Women Korea, a new wine 

club made by and for women and are celebrating its inauguration 

on International Women’s Day on March 8th, 2006. This new 

club will focus on wine and wine culture(s) from a new perspective 

as well as approach wine as a lifestyle. Note: Men are also 

welcome to join the club. 

The “Wine around the World” event is organized in cooperation 

with a variety of embassies and will feature 8 to 10 winemaking 

countries around the world,.i.e. France, Germany, 

Canada, Hungary, South Africa, Argentina, Switzerland and 

many more. Special features include a champagne reception, a 

fantastic cabaret show and great lucky draw prizes to be won. 

Also, to celebrate International Women’s Day, every woman will 

receive a gift! To mark the inauguration, there will also be a special 

membership offer for early registration for this event before 

Saturday, March 4, 2006. 

The concept of this club, developed by Mrs. Catherine 

Germier-Hamel and Ms. Nicole Risse, was initiated as recent 

studies show that wine consumption in Korea has enjoyed a constant 

growth over the past several years. Moreover, this phenomenon 

has mainly been driven by women as they are the ones choosing, 

purchasing and drinking the wine, more often so than men. 

Wine & Women Korea (WWK) will hold monthly “Wine 

Focus” gatherings where a speaker, usually a wine sommelier or 

wine expert, will discuss different topics i.e. the effects of wine 

on health, jobs in the wine industry, wine tourism, etc. Every 

event will feature 6-8 wines for tasting, accompanied by a light 

dinner. There will also be several special events throughout the 

year, the first one being “Wine around the World.” 

Annual Members of WWK will enjoy a variety of benefits, 

including, but not limited to, priority access and discounts on 

monthly wine tasting meetings, reduced entrance fee for “Wine 

Focus” gatherings, periodic newsletter: Through the Grapevine, 

as well as discounts with our Affiliate Program members, i.e. 

restaurants, wine shops, and department stores. 

WWK is open for all women and men whom are interested in 

wine. It also serves as a great networking opportunity for its 

members. The club is non-profit and situated under the umbrella 

of EKF. All proceeds generated through the club will be donated 

to South Korean charity organizations supported by EKF. 





Bank Account No.: 

Woori Bank 1081-500-252352 KDCTimes 

979-055206-13-101 

(overseas) 

(domestic) 





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German Foreign Minister Urges Korea to Invest 

“Fiber-To-The-Home” (FTTH) Experts Converge on Shanghai 

On the occasion of the visit to South 

Korea of Frank-Walter Steinmeier, 

Foreign Minister of Germany, the 

Korean-German Chamber of Commerce 

and Industry (KGCCI) organized a special 

breakfast meeting on Monday, 

February 20, 2006 in cooperation with 

the German Embassy and the 

Federation of Korean Industries (FKI). 

The Foreign Minister was accompanied 

by a business delegation comprising 

representatives of small and medium-sized 

German enterprises specialized 

in the technology, energy and environmental 

sectors. 

The welcome address was given by 

Mr. Lee, Soo-Young, Chairman of the 

Korean-German Chamber and President 

of DC Chemical Co., Ltd. Mr. Lee highlighted 

the how were united by numerous 

common economic interests and the 

intense cooperation between Korea and 

Germany, reflected in the two states’ 

trade volume of 20 billion US$. He also 

emphasized Germany’s great importance 

as Korea’s main trading partner outside the European 

Union. 

The Federation of Korean Industries (FKI) was represented by 

Chairman Kang, Shin-Ho who endorsed Lee’s appeal for future 

close collaboration. By referring to projects in politics, culture, 

society and sports, Mr. Kang pointed out several other fields 

where cross-national cooperation has already proved successful. 

Subsequent to this introduction Foreign Minister Frank-Walter 

Steinmeier held his speech. He gave a short overview of German 

commitment in Korea. More than 200 German enterprises are 

based in Korea - the leading conglomerates as well as small and 

medium-sized enterprises. The Foreign Minister outlined 

Germany’s role as the second largest investor in Korea and its 

determination not only to maintain but to further expand its presence 

in the Korean market. 

Mr. Steinmeier emphasised the rapid development Korea has 

gone through within the last 20 years resulting in its today’s position 

its rise from a primarily agricultural oriented economy to 

become an economic power that ranks world’s 11th. Hence this 

impressive performance he called for more active participation in 

the German market. Within the European Union, the worlds 

largest single market, Germany provides an excellent infrastructure 

and offers best conditions for research and development. He 

cited Samsung’s withdrawal from Berlin as a rather unfortunate 

development. 

In order to be winners of globalisation, 

greater investment in research and 

development will be vital. Both countries 

will have to specialize on high quality 

products that stand out from the mass 

market. 

Besides economic and political issues 

both countries are eagerly awaiting the 

upcoming 2006 Football World Cup 

which will be held in Germany from 

June to July. Mr. Steinmeier stated that 

Germany is looking forward to welcoming 

all Korean fans to provide them with 

the same hospitality that Korea provided 

for Germany during the 2002 World 

Cup. 

The speech of Mr. Steinmeier was 

followed by a lively Q&A session, giving 

all members the chance to discuss 

current political and economical matters 

with the Minister. 

Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Foreign 

Minister of Germany 

ETRI to Hold Various Events to 

Commemorate 30th Anniversary 

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute 

(ETRI) is preparing a variety of events in commemoration of the 

30th anniversary of its founding. 

ETRI is the nation’s biggest state-invested research center in 

charge of electronics and information & communications with 

some 1,850 regular employees. 

It spends a total of 500 billion won in budget annually. More 

than 90% of the total employees are those with master’s degree or 

doctorate. 

So far this year, it earned a total of 20,000 patents, including 

4,400 international patents, and posted 408 billion won in royalty 

income by transferring 1,619 kinds of technologies to 3,060 companies. 

Its contribution to the national economy during the past 10 

years amounted to 204 trillion won, representing a 46.5-fold of 

the ETRI’s total investment of 4.4 trillion won. 

It plans to hold an international academic seminar in October, 

which invites great scholars from foreign countries, a concert, and 

sports event to celebrate the 30th anniversary of its founding. 

The members of the FTTH Council Asia-Pacific have chosen 

Shanghai as the location for their Annual General Meeting on 

September 20-21. Members will take advantage of the meeting to 

learn more about the FTTH activities and opportunities in China. 

Dr. Shoichi Hanatani, President of the FTTH Council Asia- 

Pacific, and Senior Director Hitachi Communication 

Technologies says, “The Asia-Pacific region has by far the largest 

deployment of broadband fiber access networks in the world, but 

most of this is concentrated in just a few countries. Much remains 

to be done to complete the transition from the constraint of copper 

loops to the enormous capacity and rich services that are only 

possible on optical fiber-to-the-home networks.” 

The introduction of FTTH is a global phenomenon. The enormous 

capacity of optical fiber access allows businesses and residents 

to fit all of their Internet, Telephone, and TV-Video services 

on a single access cable, reducing costs and encouraging the 

creation of further new services. 

The Council is a group of leading telecom, networking, and 

infrastructure companies whose mandate is to promote the extension 

of fiber access across the Asia Pacific region including 

Greater China, Korea, Japan, SE Asia, India, Thailand and 

Australia/New Zealand. 

The Asia-Pacific group is the newest such Council, having 

been formally registered as a non-profit organization early in 

2005. It maintains close working links with the existing FTTH 

Council organizations in North America and Europe. 

FTTH Council members represent all areas of broadband 

industries, including telecommunications; computing, networking; 

system integration; engineering; and content-provider companies; 

as well as traditional telecommunications service 

providers, utilities and municipalities. 

Mr. Hiroshi Yatabe of Furukawa Electric Co., Chair of the 

Council’s Market Development team said: “We have commissioned 

research to identify precisely how many FTTH subscribers 

and networks there are throughout Asia-Pac. Early numbers indicate 

that Asia-Pac has far more FTTH subscribers than all the 

other regions combined. When we add the networks being built in 

China today, it’s clear that many parts of Asia will soon have the 

most advanced telecommunications infrastructure in the world.” 

Mr. Iftikhar Jami, Board Member of the Council and Director 

of Marketing and Strategy for Alcatel Asia-Pac added: “Our participation 

in the Council gives us the insights we need to do business 

throughout the region. It’s a great way to learn about the various 

countries and establish business relationships. “ 

Philips Transfers CryptoWorks Conditional 

Access (CA) Activities to Irdeto 

Irdeto has strengthened its market position and reconfirms its 

place as a top-tier content security player, while Philips will continue 

pursuing open-standards Digital Rights Management 

(DRM). 

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) and 

Irdeto, a world leader in content security and a subsidiary of 

multinational media group Naspers (NASDAQ: NPSN and JSE: 

NPN), announced that they have reached preliminary agreement 

on the terms of the transfer of Philips’ conditional access 

(CryptoTec) business unit to Irdeto. No financial details of the 

transaction were disclosed. 

Philips’ CryptoTec business unit develops and sells content 

protection (more generally known as “conditional access”) products 

such as advanced security systems for cable, satellite, terrestrial 

and IP networks under the name CryptoWorks. In addition to 

conditional access for digital TV, Irdeto also offers softwarebased 

content security for IPTV services as well as multiple DRM 

and conditional access products for premium mobile content and 

mobile TV (DMB and DVB-H). 

Hans Streng, CEO, Philips Digital Networks said, “The conditional 

access industry is moving toward consolidation, and Philips 

has been looking into various options for the CryptoTec business. 

Reaching this agreement with Irdeto is considered to be the solution 

that offers the best future-proof direction for customers and 

staff. CryptoTec will thus find a new home where conditional 

access is the absolute core of the business. Philips will continue 

focusing on promoting open-standards DRM.” 

“With the acquisition of Philips’ CryptoTec, Irdeto will 

strengthen its position in the pay media industry, and will now 

have over 300 customers on six continents. Customers using 

CryptoWorks will continue to be fully supported and in addition 

to this can now also benefit from a broader choice of content 

security solutions,” said Graham Kill, CEO of Irdeto. 

The acquisition will also enable Irdeto to further strengthen its 

position in China, where it currently already plays a market-leading 

role in securing China’s digital television migration, with 

nearly 50 customers in that country. Philips CryptoTec employees 

will transfer to Irdeto when the transaction is completed, which is 

expected within the next months, subject to customary regulatory 

clearances and procedures 



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AMD and Lenovo Expand Relationship Globally 

Intel Core Duo Delivered to Embedded Market 

Lenovo will be delivering AMD-powered commercial desktop 

computers for the first time in new markets around the world. 

AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced its AMD64 technology is now 

available in a new line of professional desktop PCs from Lenovo, 

marking the first time that this pairing will be available worldwide. 

The Lenovo 3000 J105 desktop, with a choice of AMD 

Athlon¢‚ 64 or AMD Sempron¢‚ processors, offers leading-edge 

performance to small and mid-sized businesses, and is expected 

to be available broadly in various international markets, including 

the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, France, 

Germany, Russia, Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia. 

This announcement builds on the considerable success AMD 

and Lenovo have shared over the past two years in China, where 

approximately 50 percent of Lenovo’s desktop systems are powered 

by AMD processors. Additionally, Lenovo was one of the 

first PC manufacturers to launch AMD Sempron processor-based 

systems, which were well received in China for users looking for 

a PC with performance and features designed to address their 

daily home and business computing needs. 

“Today’s launch is yet another proof-point of the strong commitment 

between AMD and Lenovo to provide innovative solutions 

to address the needs of an increasing base of consumer and 

business customers and is another example of AMD’s growing 

leadership in the commercial marketplace,” said Marty Seyer, 

senior vice president, Commercial Business and Performance 

Computing, AMD. “Innovation is at the heart of what AMD and 

Lenovo do, and by offering a choice of AMD processors to commercial 

organizations worldwide we continue to see our innovative 

AMD64 technology put to use for an expanding market of 

desktop users.” 

“Our customers in China have already seen the benefits of 

what our two companies have accomplished together, and this is 

an opportunity to offer more choice to our customers worldwide,” 

said Steve Petracca, vice president, Lenovo. “With AMD processors, 

we’re able to meet a real demand among commercial users 

who are looking for simplified, affordable computing, helping 

small business customers focus on the parts of their business 

operations that they need to, instead of worrying about their computer 

systems.” 

Targeted at small to mid-sized business users, the AMD-powered 

Lenovo 3000 J105 desktop will offer a choice for customers 

between AMD Athlon 64 or AMD Sempron processors, which 

both offer the added security benefit of Enhanced Virus 

Protection (EVP)*. This capability, when enabled by the 

Microsoft Windows¢Á XP Service Pack 2, helps prevent the execution 

of certain types of malicious viruses, and is designed to 

keep home and business users’ data secure. Additionally, both 

processors boast AMD’s Cool’n’Quiet¢‚Technology, enabling 

overall lower system and processor power consumption. AMD 

Athlon 64 processors are designed for exceptional performance 

computing with current and upcoming software, while AMD 

Sempron processors deliver affordable performance for today’s 

value-conscious buyers of desktop PCs. 

G Star Secretariat 

Invites Game Makers to “E3 2006” 

G Star Secretariat is 

inviting domestic game 

makers to the “E3 2006” 

to be held in Los Angeles 

in May this year. 

G Star plans to operate 

a Korean pavilion comprising 

15 companies at 

the E3 2006 to be held on 

May 10-12 in the U.S. 

Participating companies 

will receive various supports from G Star, including booth 

rent, manufacture of joint PR materials, including brochure and 

CD, and arrangements of consultations for buyers. 

In the meantime, 17 Korean game makers, consisting of 10 

online, five mobile and two console companies, participated in 

the E3 2005, engaging in $70 million worth of export consultations 

and signing $9.4 million worth of export contracts. 

Korean Firms to Raise IT Spending 

by 16.4% in 2006 

Korean companies plan to raise their budgets for information 

and technology (IT) by 16.4% this year, Knowledge Research 

Group (KRG) said. 

Based on its survey of 152 enterprises with a sales volume of 

over 200 billion won (approx.$200 million), KRG said that the 

average IT budget of the respondents was 15.8 billion won this 

year, up 16.4% from 2005. 

In terms of hardware, they plan to purchase PCs, servers, networks 

equipment and storage. 

Among software, they are planning to introduce such new 

solutions as RFID and BPM, while making persistent investment 

in groupware/knowledge management, ERP and information protection. 

Intel Corporation is providing extended lifecycle 

support for the Intel Core Duo processor used by developers 

of embedded solutions, such as industrial control, 

test and instrumentation, aerospace, defense and medical 

imaging systems. 

Embedded system designers increasingly wrestle 

with two challenges: balancing performance with 

power efficiency and supporting general purpose and 

special purpose functionality in embedded applications. 

Intel Core Duo processors provide system designers 

with the performance, low power and flexibility to build innovation 

into embedded systems. 

“Embedded system developers walk a tight-rope, balancing 

delivery of higher-performing systems against power envelope 

restrictions,” said Ton Steenman, general manager of Intel’s 

Infrastructure Processor Division. “Intel Core Duo processors are 

bringing the benefits of power efficient, multi-core processing to 

bear to help developers offer greater performance, innovation and 

capability in their embedded solutions.” 

Two independent processing cores can support multiple operating 

systems simultaneously to provide design-flexibility for 

custom applications. Intel provides a full set of software tools, 

including compilers, performance analyzers and thread checkers, 

Oracle Identity Management Spurs 

Global Adoption 

Strategic acquisitions, customer endorsements, expanded partnerships 

and new technologies have solidified Oracle’s leading 

position in the identity management market 

The industry’s most comprehensive, best-in-class identity 

management suite, Oracle Identity Management, is experiencing 

significant customer and partner momentum, positioning Oracle 

as a key player in the identity management space in 2006. 

Serving as the security backbone for Oracle Fusion 

Middleware, Oracle Identity Management helps customers and 

partners decrease security threats across diverse IT environments 

while helping address their compliance needs. Recent milestones 

include the acquisition and successful integration of industry-leading 

identity technologies and teams from OctetString, Oblix and 

Thor Technologies; rapidly growing global customer roster with 

more than 10,000 developer downloads; dedicated internal sales 

force; announcement of the Oracle Identity and Access 

Management Suite and Oracle Identity Management 10g Release 

3; introduction of Oracle Security Developer Tools; receipt of 

industry accolades; expanded partnership network; and added support 

for key industry standards. 

to assist developers in maximizing application performance 

and to fully exploit concurrent threading. 

“We currently have four designs using the Intel 

Core Duo processor in various form factors, which 

allows us to deliver more features in the same footprint 

as a single core processor,” said Norbert Hauser, vice 

president of marketing for Kontron. “These designs 

will be used in a wide array of embedded solutions, 

such as in communications, medical, gaming and 

industrial control where they now are able to integrate 

the function of previously independent computers onto one single 

platform saving considerable cost and real estate.” 

The Intel Core Duo processor combines high performance 

with innovative power management capabilities to minimize 

operational costs. Features such as Enhanced Intel SpeedStep 

technology enable the system to dynamically regulate power to 

cores, caches and interconnects in response to changing processing 

requirements. The Intel Core Duo processor is supported by 

the Mobile Intel 945GM Express Chipset, which provides 

enhanced graphics, I/O bandwidth, storage speed and reliability 

for embedded system designs. 

“We are using the latest power efficient Intel dual-core processor 

to develop a high performance, state-of-the art embedded 

module that will be used for compute-intensive applications,” 

said Wade Clowes, vice president for RadiSys Corporation. 

Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, 

products and initiatives to continually advance how 

people work and live. 

VK Wins the Red Dot Design Award 

The VK2000, an 8.8 mm super-slim 

phone designed and produced by the 

Korean company VK, won Germany’s 

‘Red Dot Design Award 2006’, which 

has world-class prestige. The Red Dot 

Design Award is one of the three major 

design competitions in the world, together 

with Germany’s iF Design Award and 

the Industrial Design Excellence Award 

(IDEA) of the United States. 

The VK2000 was developed for the 

European-type mobile telecommunication system GSM (The 

Global System for Mobile Communications). It has a thickness 

of only 8.8 mm and weighs only 48 g. The product, sold in 28 

countries around the world, is said to have enjoyed much popularity 

since it was first introduced in the market. 


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Country Report 

Mystical Morocco Embraces ICT 

On the occasion of the International 

Forum of ICT Strategies and Investment 

(IFISI 2006), in Marrakech, from March 1 

to 3, 2006, The Korea IT Times is pleased 

to insert an exclusive special interview 

with H.E Mr. Ahmed BOURZAIM, 

Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco. - 

Ed 

Q: Would you please tell our readers 

about this month’s IFISI 2006 in 

Marrakech? 

A: Under the High Patronage of His 

Majesty King Mohammed VI, the 

Kingdom of Morocco and the Islamic 

Development Bank (IDB) organized the 

International Forum of ICT Strategies and 

Investment (IFISI 2006), in Marrakech, 

from March 1 to 3, 2006. 

The major aspect of this Forum, which 

is intended to bring a part of the solution 

to the issue of funding of ICT projects, is 

its matchmaking methodology, between 

projects holders and investors. 

In this respect, strategies and 

opportunities of ICT investment will be 

presented before and with solution 

providers, with regard to a wide range of 

sectors such as Healthcare, e-Government, 

Banking and Finance, Industry, Energy, 

Education, Environment, Agriculture, etc. 

Ministers and high ranking officials in 

charge of ICTs, economy, trade and 

industry, senior officials from national and 

international organizations, as well as 

representatives of the private sector are 

expected to take part in this important 

Forum, which is to be organized on an 

annual basis. 

Q: What’s your opinion about 

Korea-made DMB or Wibro products 

as well as the adaptation possibilities 

of these technologies in Morocco? 

A: The Digital 

multimedia broadcasting 

(DMB) and wireless 

broadband (WiBro) are 

two technologies that 

Korea have developed 

and commercialized 

recently. I understand 

that in the Republic of 

Korea there are high 

expectations that theses 

next generation 

communications and 

broadcasting will create 

a huge market, serving 

as a new growth engine. 

In Morocco we are 

still to witness this 

positive evolution. But a 

lot of progress has been achieved in ICT 

technologies in general. 

Concerning the adaptability of this 

technology to the ICT sector in Morocco, I 

think it is more a matter of investment in 

additional infrastructures that can serve as 

a support for theses new technologies. On 

the other hand, Morocco can certainly 

profit from the Korean ICT advanced 

experience and I hope that in the near 

future the two countries will engage in a 

fruitful co-operation in the field of these 

new technologies. 

Q: How high is the IT development 

level in Morocco at the moment? 

A: Reforms undertaken over the last 

decade have helped the Moroccan 

economy to adjust to the new global 

realities, emerging as one of the most 

vibrant economies in the Middle East and 

Africa. Presently, the Moroccan economy 

possesses great potentials and comparative 

and competitive advantages, for export and 

investment, in sectors such as Food 

Ahmed BOURZAIM, Ambassador of 

the Kingdom of Morocco 

processing, Chemicals 

and Para-chemicals, 

Textile and Leather, 

Mechanical and 

Metallurgical, 

Electrical and 

Electronics. 

Regarding the ICTs, 

Morocco has made the 

choice of treating this 

sector as a national 

priority. It hopes to 

develop it so as to 

emerge as one hub 

linking Europe, Africa 

and the Middle-East 

region. 

From 1988 to 2002, 

the growth rate in the 

Moroccan cellular market has exceeded 

242 %, making the cellular market in 

Morocco one of the fastest growing, not 

only in Africa and the Arab world, but also 

in the world at large. 

The number of cellular telephone 

subscribers soared from 42,924 

subscribers in 1997, to 3.3 million by the 

end of January 2001, and to 10 million in 

2004. 

The arrival of cyber-caf?s resulted in an 

explosion of the Internet in Morocco and 

the total number of cyber caf?s listed 

during the period from 1999 to 2001 

registered a growth rate of 500 percent, 

while the number of Internet users has 

reached 4 million in 2004. Many experts 

believe that Morocco is by far one of 

Africa’s most advanced countries in terms 

of the Internet. 

Moreover, the call centers market is 

fast growing in Morocco with a turnover 

which rose from 5.7 million US$ in 1999 

to 57 million US$ in 2002, 90 % export 

related. 

In this regard, it is worthwhile to note 

that the Moroccan workforce is highly 

skilled and educated, proficient in French, 

English, and Spanish as well as IT literate. 

It is highly reliable and can deliver worldclass 

quality to ensure rapid delivery of 

service. 

Q: What about IT collaboration 

between Korea and Morocco? 

A: The IT collaboration between 

Morocco and Korea started in April 2000 

in Rabat where the two countries had their 

1st international conference on the theme 

of “cooperation between Morocco and 

Korea in the 21st century”, under the joint 

auspices of the Moroccan Ministry of 

Higher Education and KIMA (Korean 

Institute of Middle East and Africa). 

The Moroccan side used this 

opportunity to press for further promotion 

of cooperation between the two countries, 

with a particular emphasis on the IT 

sector. 

In the pursuit of this objective, the 

“Korea-Morocco IT Forum” was 

organized in Seoul, in January 2002, by 

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and 

sponsored by the Ministry of Information 

and Communication, the Institute of 

Information Technology Assessment and 

Korea Telecom. 

Later the Korean side organized two 

conferences in Morocco in 2003 and 2005, 

aiming at promoting cooperation between 

the two countries respectively in the field 

of ICTs and in all sectors including ICTs. 

Beside active exchanges of IT 

professionals, the two Countries signed the 

Agreement in the field of IT in May 2001, 

which solidified bilateral cooperation in 

the field of IT. 

Q: How high do you rate Korea’s 

IT level in general? 

A: No doubt Korea is one of the major 

players in the world in the field of ICTs. 

This is demonstrated on the ground by the 

fact that two-thirds of the Korean 

population has mobile phones and more 

than 12 million have broadband Internet 

access. Furthermore the Republic of Korea 

is currently ranked by the United Nations 

and the International Telecommunication 

Union (ITU) among the top five countries 

in the IT competitiveness worldwide. 

We in Morocco recognize and 

appreciate the high quality of Korean IT 

products. Our market along with good 

prospect for expansion in the region, have 

prompted companies like LG Electronics 

and Samsung Electronics to establish 

important offices in Morocco. 

I remain convinced that Korea has even 

more to give to its people and to the world 

with regard to ICTs, while at the same 

time I firmly believe in the ability of 

Korea, the 11th economic power 

worldwide, in playing a more significant 

role in the international arena, notably 

through the strengthening of cooperation 

ties in the IT sector, particularly with 

African nations. 

Q: Please tell us a bit more about 

Morocco’s IT policy? 

A: Morocco’s achievements in this 

field are an excellent showcase of today’s 

worldwide liberalization, privatization and 

transformation process. The International 

Telecommunication Union (ITU) 

considers the Moroccan experience as a 

worthy example for other countries in the 

region to follow. 

In the field of ICTs, the Moroccan 

government’s action has always aimed at 

securing the county’s place in the digital 

age. As a result, the Moroccan 

telecommunications infrastructure has 

increased in both quantity and quality. 

This development was founded on three 

major pillars: The institutional 

telecommunications reform process, 

political democratization and technological 

advancement. 

The sector represented 2/3 (two third) 

of foreign investments between 1998 and 

2001, generated 1.59 billion US$ in 

licensing and 2.27 billion US$ turnover in 

2003, representing 4.53 % of the GDP. 

The French giant “Vivendi Universal” has 

invested 2.3 billion US$ in 2001 and 1.5 

billion US$ in 2004, for the acquisition 

respectively of 35% and 16 % of the 

capital of the historic operator “Maroc 

Telecom”. 

Licenses have been granted to 

international companies such as Space 

com, GulfSat Maghreb, Argos/Telenor, 

Orbcomm Maghreb, Global Star TESAM, 

DataComm Maghreb, Soremar, Thuraya 

Maghreb, Inquam Telecom SA, Moratel 

SA, Telefonica. 

In 2001, “Casablanca Techno Park”, 

the first of four planned technology parks 

opened in Casablanca, and is hosting now 

a number of major foreign electronics 

firms, such as Thomson, Microsoft, 

Compaq and Oracle. 

Moreover, the government has made all 

the necessary efforts to make Morocco an 

advanced IT nation by establishing E- 

Morocco strategy together with the state of 

the art Techno Park, giving the e- 

commerce all the chances to prosper, and 

providing a basis for training IT 

professionals. 

Q: In which areas would Morocco 

like to cooperate with Korea in terms 

of IT collaboration? 

A: We certainly look forward to the 

opportunity of further developing our 

cooperation with Korean firms and 

agencies, and we are appreciative of the 

Korean government’s support in this 

effort. Morocco can benefit from the rich 

Korean experience accumulated over a 

short period of time. 

The cooperation between the two 

countries in this field could be 

tremendously boosted if adequate funding 

is available for some IT projects to be 

carried out in Morocco, by either Korean 

private or public sectors. 

In this regard, major Korean IT 

companies could largely benefit from the 

Moroccan business environment in general 

and the strategic position of Morocco at 

the junction between Europe, Africa and 

the Middle East, as well as from the 

package of incentives granted by the 

Moroccan government to foreign 

investors. 

Cooperation between the two countries 

could also be further expanded by the 

holding of bilateral meetings, such as 

“Korea Morocco IT Forum” at a regular 

basis, and above all within the framework 

of the Joint Commission, which by the 

way is scheduled to be held in the near 

future in Morocco. 



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Busan New Port in Full Swing 

Celebrating Last 20 Years, Igniting Next 20! 

Kanga Assoumou Pierre, king of Grand 

Bassam from the Republic of Cote d’Ivoire 

paid a visit to Busan Port Authority (BPA) 

to learn about Busan Port’s management 

and operation system as well as to tour 

Busan Port on February 8. 

The Kingdom of Bassam, cocoa-growing 

western region, is about 30 km south of 

Abijang, the capital of the Republic of 

Cote d’Ivoire. With a population of 1.7 

million people, the country gained independence 

from France in 1960 and has produced 

40% of the world’s total production 

of cocoa. 

Busan New Port welcomed its first 

international regular shipping line on 

February 25. 

Busan Port Authority said MSC, the 

world’s second shipping company, signed 

a contract with PNC (Pusan Newport 

Corporation) to call twice weekly at the 

newly opened port. 

The MSC’s call was a jump start to 

vitalize Busan New Port which faced difficulties 

in attracting cargo since its opening 

and the Korean government also gained 

momentum in developing Busan New Port 

into the hub port in Northeast Asia. 

The first vessel, LISA, 5048 TEU from 

MSC rotating China, Busan, and North 

America called at Busan New Port at 10: 

30 a.m and 800 containers were handled. 

LARA, 2480 TEU vessel from MSC 

called at Busan New Port on February 26 

Busan Port Authority Hosts Visit by Ivory Coast VIP 

In particular, the Port of Abijang, the 

largest port in Cote d’Ivoire handled 

600,000TEU in 2004 and major shipping 

companies such as Maersk Sealand, CMA 

CGM, Cosco call at the port. 

During his visit to BPA, June Suk 

Choo, president of BPA briefed him on 

Busan port’s management system and 

development projects drawing keen interests 

from those from the Republic of Cote 

d’Ivoire. After visit BPA, Mr. Kanga 

Assoumou Pierre toured Busan Port and 

said that he was so impressed to see the 

huge scale of Busan Port. 

and 600 containers were loaded and 

uploaded at the port. MSC will handle 

200,000 to 300,000 TEU at Busan New 

Port this year. 

PNC said that it is under negotiation 

with other international shipping companies 

and added that more shipping lines 

will call at Busan New Port. 

BPA Bidding Strongly to 

Host 2011 IAPH Conference 

in Busan 

Busan Port Authority (BPA) participated 

in the recent 7th IAPH Asia/Oceania 

Meeting in Karachi, held Feb.14-17 in 

Pakistan. 

The participation at the Meeting provided 

good opportunities for BPA to establish 

international networking with world’s 

leading port and logistics companies and 

organizations. In particular, BPA used it as 

a chance for marketing activities and to 

make efforts to host the IAPH conference 

in 2011 in Busan. 

The International Association of Ports 

& Harbors (IAPH) aims at enhancing 

cooperation and seeking mutual benefits in 

the ports and shipping industry and 230 

port organizations from 90 countries are 

the regular members. 

In 2003, the 4th IAPH Asia/Oceania 

Meeting was held in Penang, Malaysia, and 

Korea’s Vice Minister of Maritime Affairs 

and Fisheries officially expressed willingness 

to host the 2011 IAPH conference in 

Busan. The final result will be announced 

at the 25th IAPH conference in 2007. 

Last year, the President of BPA, June 

Suk Choo took part in the 6th IAPH conference 

held in Shanghai, 2005 and she 

asked board members to support Busan to 

host the IAPH conference in 2011. The 

response was positive at the Meeting. 

INNODESIGN sees Korea’s future depending on creative 

strength 

On the occasion of the professional design group’s 20th 

Anniversary of its founding, INNODESIGN 

(www.innodesign.com) will be holding a small function, titled 

“Celebrate Last 20, Ignite Next 20 & Beyond!” on March 24, 2006 

in its new Nonhyeon-dong headquarters, Seoul, Korea. 

Looking back at the past 20 years, this small function will be a 

venue for INNODESIGN announcing the company’s design 

capacity to attain “Innovative Korea.” 

With a firm belief that design is innovative thinking to change 

the world beyond the one to forge a beautiful form, INNODESIGN 

in the meanwhile has been devoting many efforts to spread this 

idea. “Innovative Korea!” is a campaign which CEO & Founder 

Kim Young-Se, INNODESIGN is unfolding for the younger generation 

to shape Korea’s creative future. Through the publication 

of his book, entitled “Trend Creator, Innovator”, and numerous 

lectures, he has been sharing his insights that Korea’s future in the 

21st century depends on creative strength; thereby stressing that 

design is the core competitiveness of the nation and even more 

youths must become innovators. 

CEO Kim is a designer who initiated CIPD (Corporate Identity 

through Product Design)” settled as the basis of corporate design 

management at home and abroad and CUPI (Creating User’s 

Personal Identity)’ strategy, a new consumption concept of the digital 

era, according to INNODESIGN. 

Including iriver H10, which Microsoft chairman Bill Gates 

praised highly as a leading product of the digital lifestyle era, he is 

being assessed to acquaint the world with Korea’s design capability, 

through a number of IT as well as lifestyle products such as 

iriver, as well as Samsung Anycall and so on which lead the world 

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The Season for Venture Association 

AGMs 

Venture-related associations’ annual 

general meetings were held consecutively 

in February. First off, the Korea Venture 

Business Women’s Association 

(KOVWA) held its AGM on Feb. 27 at 

the Imperial Palace Hotel, while the 7th 

Creative Woman Forum. KIBWA (Korea 

IT Business Women’s Association) also 

launched a ceremony to congratulate the 

launching of its 3rd term executing executives 

on Feb. 20 at the COEX 

Intercontinental, Seoul. In the case of 

KOVA (Korea Venture Business 

Association), its general meeting was 

held on Feb. 28 at the Renaissance Seoul 

hotel, along with an invitation lecture by 

CEO & Founder Kim Young-se, INN- 

ODESIGN regarding ‘Innovation’. 

Sri Lanka Thanks Korea for Helping 

Tsunami Victims 

chairman Kwon Soon-han. 

Iran’s diplomatic function to observe 

the Islamic Revolution 

To commemorate the 27th 

Anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, 

the Embassy of Iran held a diplomatic 

function on Feb. 13 at the Lotte Hotel, 

Seoul while El Salvador’s Amb. & Dean 

of the Seoul Diplomatic Corps Alfredo 

Ungo, Vice Minister of Environment 

Lee Kyoo-yong and others were present. 

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Day is to 

commemorate the day marking Islamic 

leader Ayatollah Khomeini’s establishment 

of an interim revolutionary government 

10 days after returning from 

exile in France. Iranian Amb. 

Jahanbakhsh Mozaffari said that Iran’s 

nuclear power program is intended as an 

alternative energy source. 

Korean public, a spokesman at the 

Embassy said. 

Kookmin’s Graduate School of Politics 

and Leadership Spreads its Wings 

On the occasion of its 10th 

Anniversary, the Graduate School of 

Politics and Leadership, Kookmin 

University observed it on Feb. 24 at the 

Seoul Plaza. According to president 

Kim Moon-hwan, Kookmin University, 

this Graduate School not only aims to 

contribute to the development of democratic 

society in an international community, 

but also attempts to emphasize the 

education of political leaders who have 

integrity and expertise in the 21st century. 

The Graduate School of Politics and 

Leadership was established with the 

purpose of helping professionals understand 

domestic and foreign political 

affairs better. 

Celebrating India’s Republic Day 

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2006-03-12006.3.410:50AM페이지90001채널맥(3443-0701) 

2006 Global Exhibition Schedule 

Year’s Major World’s Electronics, Information & Communication Exhibitions 

Schedule Title Host Place (Country) Field Host Organization 

January 

5-8 Int’l CES Las Vegas AV. Communication CEMA 

(USA) Digital (www.cesweb.org) 

8-11 ISS US 2005 California Semiconductors, devices, SEMI 

(USA) equipment materials (www.semi.org) 

9-13 Mac World San Francisco Computer-related www.macworld.expo.com 

Conference & Expo (USA) 

11-13 GITEX Hyderabad Computer & Information www.gitexhyderabad.com 

(India) 

Handling-related 

15-18 PTC 2006 Honolulu Communications www.ptc.org 

(USA) 

(including wire & wireless) 

18-20 Inter Nepcon Japan Tokyo Big Sight Electronics parts SMT Lead Exhibition Japan 

(Japan) 

18-20 Electro Test Japan Tokyo Big Sight SMT, Test, Exam. Measuring Lead Exhibition Japan 

(Japan) 

equipment 

18-20 ICP Tokyo Big Sight Semiconductors packaging Lead Exhibition Japan 

(Japan) 

SMT 

18-20 ELE Trade Tokyo Big Sight Electronics parts Lead Exhibition Japan 

18-20 PWB Expo Tokyo Big Sight PCB Lead Exhibition Japan 

18-20 FOE Tokyo Big Sight Optical Communication Tech. Lead Exhibition Japan 

23-25 Electronic India New Delhi Electronic parts, materials www.global-electronics.net 

(India) 

25-27 FC Expo Tokyo Big Sight Fuel cell Lead Exhibition Japan 

26-27 EDS Fair Pacific Yokohama Electronics design Japan Electronics Show 

(Japan) 

Association 

February 

1-3 Technical Show Pacific Yokohama Industrial technologies Ganagawa Prefecture 

Yokohama (Japan) Industrial Trade Promotion Association 

4-8 ISSCC San Francisco Semiconductors Int’l Conference www.isscc.org/isscc 

(USA) 

5-10 IPC Print Circuit Expo, Anaheim PCB, Electronics manufacturing www.goipchshows.org 

APEX 

(USA) 

6-9 Designcon Santa Clara Semiconductors design www.designcon.com 

(USA) 

6-9 Voicecon (Spring) Orlando Voice network, IP network www.bcr.com/voicecon 

(USA) 

8-10 SEMICON Korea Seoul Semiconductors equipment, SEMI(www.semi.org) 

(Korea) 

materials 

9-11 BES EXPO New Delhi Broadcasting Tech. BESI(www.besindia.com) 

(India) 

12-14 ISS Europe Amsterdam Semiconductors devices, SEMI(www.semi.org) 

(Netherlands) equipment, materials 

13-16 3GSM World Barcelona GSM- 3rd Generation www.3gsmworldcongress 

Congress (Spain) (3G) mobile phone .com 

13-16 Domotechnical Koeln Home electronics appliances www.domotechnica.com 

(Germany) 

and parts 

15 IPTV Workshop 2006 Seoul IPTV Electronics Times 

(Korea) 

15-17 SMT/PCB/ Seoul PCB-related Electronics Times 

Nepcon Korea 

16-17 e-Service Manila IT service, software www.e-servicephils.com 

Philippines 

(Philippines) 

16-17 Automatic Recognition Osaka Bar code, RFID, etc. Japan Automatic 

(Japan) 

Recognition System Association 

19-24 Micro lithography San Jose Optical equipment www.spie.org/coonferences 

(USA) 

21-23 Nano Tech Tokyo Big Sight Nano Technologies Nano Tech Executive 

(Japan) 

Committee 

22-23 FMC Forum Tokyo Sankei Plaza FMC-related forum E.J. Krause & Asso. 

26-Mar. 1 PMA Orlando Photo & Video Tech www.pmai.org 

(USA) 

28-Mar. 3 GFPC Okinawa FPD-related International meeting SEMI Japan 

(www.semi.org/gfpc) 

March 

6-7 Imbedded Systems Shanghai IC Technology www.esconline.com 

Conference 

(China) 

6-10 DATE Munich Design and Automation www.date-conference.com 

(Germany) 

7-9 FOSE Washington (USA) IT-related www.fose.com 

9-15 CeBIT Hanover Info-communication tech., German Industrial Expo 

(Germany) digital Japan Representatives 

10-11 Embedded Systems Shenzhen (China) IT technology www.esconline.com 

Conference 

12-14 Int’l Home & Chicago (USA) Home electronics appliances www.housewares.org 

14-16 ITEX Las Vegas (USA) Image Technology www.itexshow.com 

14-17 von 2006 San Jose (USA) Communication, Internet, Solution www.von.com 

21-23 Electronics China Shanghai (China) Electronics parts, manufacturing www.global-electronics.net 

devices, optical technology 

21-23 SEMICON China Shanghai (China) Semiconductors equipment, materials SEMI(semi.org) 

21-23 Broadcast, Cable& Beijing (China) Cable TV-related www.CCBN.cn 

Satellite network 

23 KM & DEMS Seoul (Korea) KM, EDMS Electronics Times, 

Korea Conference 

KM/EDMS Association 

23-26 PIE Tokyo Big Sight Camera, video products Japan Camera Video Ind. 

(Japan) 

Asso. (www.pie2005.jp) 

26-31 PCB Design Santa Clara (USA) PCB design Conference West www.pcbwest.com 

28-30 FPD China Shanghai (China) Flat Panel Display SEMI(www.semi.org) 

29-Apr. 1 musikmesse Frankfurt (Germany) Musical Instruments, S/W, H/W Musikmesse Frankfurt 

www.messefrankfurt.com 

April 

3-6 Linux World Boston (USA) Computer-related www.linuxworldxo.com 

3-7 Milla Cannes (France) Digital contents, bi-directional technology (www.milia.com) 

3-7 MiPTV Cannes (France) TV industry and digital contents www.miptv.com 

4-6 Semicon Europe Munich (Germany) Semiconductors equipment, materials (SEMI) 

4-7 Nepcon China Shanghai (China) Electronics manufacturing www.nepconchina.com 

8-9 Imbedded Systems Beijing (China) IC technology Conference www.esconline.com 

9-11 NTCA National Show Atlanta (USA) Cable TV-related www.thenationalshow.com 

17-20 TAITRONICS Taipei (Taiwan) Home appliances, www.taipeitradeshows.com.tw 

communication, computer, parts 

19-21 Motor Technology Chiba Makuhari Messe Motor technology JMA 

(Japan) 

19-21 EMC-Noise-related Chiba Makuhari Messe Electric wave noise-related technology JMA 

Technology 

19-21 Board, Computer Show Chiba Makuhari Messe IC hardware JMA 

19-21 Heat-related Chiba Makuhari Messe Heat-proof, cooling,Technology JMA 

19-21 Wireless Communication Chiba Makuhari Messe Wireless technology JMA 

19-21 Car Electronics Chiba Makuhari Messe Auto, ITS JMA 

19-21 Electric Source Chiba Makuhari Messe Electric source technology JMA 

System Show 

19-21 Motion Engineering Show Chiba Makuhari Messe Driving, transmission, control JMA 

19-21 R&D, Production, Design Chiba Makuhari Messe R&D, design, production tech JMA 

19-21 Fine Tech Japan Tokyo Big Sight (Japan) FPD manufacturing tech JMA 

19-21 Laser EXPO Pacific Yokohama Laser devices, optical parts Laser EXPO Secretariat 

(Japan) 

19-21 OLEDs Asia Singapore OLED-related www.intertechusa.com 

24-27 NAB Las Vegas (USA) Broadcasting technology 

24-28 Hanover Messe Hanover (Germany) Industry overall, accounting, control German Ind. Expo Japan 

Representatives 

www.hannovermesse.co.jp 

27-28 Wireless Technology Pacific Yokohama Wireless technology E.J. Clause & Associates 

(Japan) 

30-May 5 Interop Las Vegas (USA) IT infra, networking www.interop.com 

May 

1-5 WCIT Austin (USA) IT www.wcit2006.org 

2-4 CTST Las Vegas (USA) Card, security www.ctst.com 

9-11 Nepcon Birmingham (UK) Electronics industry www.nepcon.co.uk 

9-11 CeBIT Australia Sidney Info communication technology German Ind. Expo Japan 

(Australia) Representatives SEMI(www.semi.org) 

10-11 Embedded technology Osaka (Japan) IC technology Japan System House 

West 

Association Secretariat 

10-12 E3 EXPO Los Angeles (USA) Entertainment-related www.e3expo.com 

10-13 EXPO COMM Seoul (Korea) Communication & Mobile tech www.expocomm.com 

17-19 Business Show Tokyo Big Sight IT overall Business Show Secretariat 

18-20 e-messe Ishigawa Info communication, IT Ishigawa Info System 

kanazawa (Japan) Association 

23-25 WinHEC Seattle (USA) Window-related H/W tech www.microsoft.com/whdc/winhec 

25 BPM Solution Seoul BPM solution Electronics Times, 

Korea Conference (Korea) Korea S/W Association 

24-26 Legend Industrial Show Osaka (Japan) Legend materials Japan Legend Ind. Assoc. 

31-June 2 JPCA Show Kokyo Big Sight (Japan) IC, SMT Japan IC Association 

31-June 2 LINUX World EXPO Kokyo Big Sight (Japan) Linux-related 

IDG Japan 

June 

3-9 INFOCOMM Orlando (USA) Display tech, video, audio ICIA (www.icia.org) 

4-8 Global Com Chicago (USA) Communication technology www.globalcomm2006.com 

4-9 SID San Francisco (USA) Display tech. www.sid.org 

5-9 Interop Tokyo Chiba Makuhari Messe Networking-related SEMI Japan 

(Japan) 

6-7 ISS Japan Osaka (Japan) Semiconductors, devices SEMI Japan 

6-8 Movie TV Technology Tokyo (Japan) Movie and TV tech Japan Movie TV Tech Asso. 

6-10 Comdex Taipei Taipei (Taiwan) Computer www.taipeitradeshows.com.tw 

7-9 ISW Tokyo (Japan) Data memory devices Int’l Disc Drive Assoc. 

7-10 Video Sensing Pacific Yokohama (Japan) Video handling tech. 

14-16 FPD Taiwan Taipei (Taiwan) FPD SEMI(www.semi.org) 

14-16 Cable TV Tokyo Big Sight CATV tech Japan Cable TV Assoc. 

14-17 Opt Taiwan Taipei (Taiwan) Optical tech www.pida.org.tw 

19-23 COMMUNICA SIA Singapore Info comm. IT www.communicasia.com 

21-24 SEK 2006 Seoul COEX (Korea) Electronics, Info-com Electronics Times 

21-24 IT Technomart COEX (Korea) Electronics, IT Electronics Times 

21-23 Mechanical Elements Tokyo Big Sight Mechanical elements, materials Lead Exhibition 

Technology Show (Japan) Japan 

21-23 Industrial Virtual Tokyo Big Sight Video display Lead Exhibition 

Reality Show 

Japan 

28-30 SODEC Tokyo Big Sight S/W development environment Lead Exhbn. Japan 

28-30 ESEC Tokyo Big Sight Assembly system development Lead Exhbn. Japan 

28-30 DW&CRMPO Tokyo Big Sight Data warehouse Lead Exhbn. Japan 

28-30 DSE Tokyo Big Sight Data storage tech Lead Exhbn. Japan 

28-30 Info Security EXPO Tokyo Big Sight Security-related Lead Exhbn. Japan 

28-30 RFID Solution EXPO Tokyo Big Sight RFID Lead Exhbn. Japan 

July 

6-8 ISOT Tokyo Big Sight Stationery, office articles Lead Exhbn. Japan 

6-8 OFMEX Tokyo Big Sight Copy machine, Fax, etc. Lead Exhbn. Japan 

6-8 Digital Publishing Fair Tokyo Big Sight Contents-related Lead Exhbn. Japan 

6-9 Tokyo Int’l Book Fair Tokyo Big Sight Publication business Lead Exhbn. Japan 

7-10 SINOCES Qingdao (China) AV, communication, digital www.sinoces.com 

10-14 SEMICON West San Francisco (USA) Semiconductors devices, materials (www.semi.org) 

12-14 Inter Opt Chiba Makuhari Messe Optical parts and materials Optical Ind. Promotion Assoc. 

(Japan) 

13-16 Imaging Expo Shanghai (China) Photo, image, printing www.imaging-expo.com 

19-21 Wireless Japan Tokyo Big Sight(Japan) Wireless tech E.J. Krause & Associates 

24-28 DAC San Francisco (USA) EDA-related www.dac.com 

26-27 Imbedded Systems Taipei (Taiwan) IC technology www.esconline.com 

Conference 

30-Aug. 3 SIGGRAPH Boston (USA) CG technology www.siggraph.org 

August 

14-17 Linux World San Francisco (USA) Rinux-related www.lynuxworldexpo.com 

Conference and EXPO 

19-20 Ham Fair Tokyo Big Sight Radio ham-related Japan Ham Fed. 

23-25 IMID 2006 Seoul COEX (Korea) PDP, LCD, OLED Electronics Times 

22-26 BIRTV Beijing (China) TV, broadcasting www.birtv.com 

September 

1-6 IFA Berlin (Germany) AV. Info-com. Messe Berlin Japan 


6-8 IC China Tsuzohu (China) Semiconductors www.ic-china.org 

7-12 IBC Amsterdam (Netherlands) Broadcasting instruments 

13-15 Automatic Recognition Tokyo Big Sight Bar code, RFID, etc. Japan Automatic 

Exhibition 

Recognition Systems Assoc. 

13-17 CEDIA Denver (USA) Home theater, home networking www.cedia.net/expo 

17-20 CeBIT Asia Shanghai (China) Info-com. Tech German Ind. Expo 

14-17 IT EXPO Busan BEXCO (Korea) IT-related Electronics Times & 

Busan 2006 

Busan city 

20-21 OEM New England (USA) Instruments, parts, materials www.devicelink.com/expo 

21-23 Kwangju Info-Com Kwangju Info-com. Kwangju Info Com 

Exhibition 2006 (Korea) Promotion Assoc. 

21-24 A/V Fair Pacific Yokohama Audio visual Japan Audio Assoc. 

(Japan) 

22-24 Tokyo Game Show Chiba Makuhari Messe (Japan) Game entertainment CESA 

25-28 Embedded Systems Boston (USA) IC technology www.esconline.com 

Conference 

October 

3-7 CEATEC Japan Chiba Makuhari Messe Electronics, computer Japan Elect. Show Assoc. 

(Japan) 

9-13 MIPCOM Cannes (France) TV. Audio visual contents www.mipcom.com 

11-13 Kansai Design Intex Osaka (Japan) Info leakage, CAD/CAM Lead Exhibn Japan 

Manufacturing Solution Exhibition 

11-13 Kansai Mechanical Intex Osaka (Japan) Machines, materials, etc. Lead Exhibn. Japan 

Elements 

Technology Exhibition 

11-15 TAITRONICS Taipei (Taiwan) Electronics, Info-related www.taipeitradeshows.com.tw 

13-16 Electronic Asia Hong Kong (China) High-tech-related www.electronicasia.com 

13-16 Hong Kong Hong Kong (China) Electronics overall www.hkelectronicsfair.com 

Electronics Fair 

24-28 Orgatec Cologne(Germany) Office articles & furniture Koeln Expo Japan 


www.orgatec.com 

25-26 UCS 2006 Seoul COEX (Korea) Ubiquitous academic meeting Electronics Times 

November 

5-8 ITPC (Int’l Trade Hawaii (USA) Semiconductors SEMI(www.semi.org) 

Partners Conference 

7-9 Micro-machine Exhibition Tokyo (Japan) Industries overall Messe Frankfurt Japan 

13-15 OLEDs World Summit San Diego (USA) OLED-related 

15-17 Imbedded Technology Pacific Yokohama IC technology Japan System House Assoc. 

2006 (Japan) 

15-17 Inter BEE Chiba Makuhari Messe (Japan) Broadcasting tech 

Japan Elect. Show Assoc. 

28-29 U-Infra Seoul COEX (Korea) Ubiquitous infrastructures National Computerization 

Integration Conference Agency, ETRI 

December 

4-8 ITU Telecom World Hong Kong (China) Info-communication overall www.itu.int/world2006 

4-8 3G World Congress Hong Kong (China) 3G wireless technology www.3gcongress.com 

6-8 Business Show Osaka Intex Osaka (Japan) IT overall Business Show Osaka 

Secretariat 

6-8 International Video Aids Pacific Yokohama Video tech. Comm. Co. 

Exhibition 

(Japan) 

6-8 SEMICON Japan Chiba Makuhari Messe Semiconductors manufacturing SEMI Japan 

(Japan) 

equipment, materials 

6-8 Gauge 2006 Osaka (Japan) Gauge overall Japan Gauge Assoc. 

12-15 APMC (Asia Pacific Pacific Yohohama Microwave-related Microwave Exhbn. 

Microwave Conference) (Japan) Secretariat 

13-15 Microwave Exhibition Pacific Yokohama Microwave technology Microwave Exhbn. 

(Japan) 

Secretariat 



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GLORIAD Jobseekers & Openings 

How to Be Ready for Phone Interviews 

When you are asked, “... tell me of your career progression”, it 

is difficult to decide just how much you should be saying. You are 

probably wondering just how long this answer should be and why 

an interviewer asked this question when he or she has already 

taken a look at the resume. For this question, one must be able to 

show the ability to speak in concise manner. 

This is how one should prepare for this question. 

1) Talk about what is on your resume in spoken English. DO 

NOT REPEAT your resume. 

2) Practice summarizing everything on your resume in one sentence. 

For example, be ready to talk about your former company, 

job and project in one sentence. Of course, you can give answers 

that are longer than one sentence, but if you know how to summarize 

everything on your resume, you will sound very confident, and 

also very knowledgeable in what you’ve been doing. 

Now, you have summarized your career perfectly. You now 

have to prepare for some follow up questions. An interviewer will 

want to learn more about what you have done on your job, in what 

scope, how well you did it, and what you can offer to the new job. 

An interviewer may ask the following after you give a summary of 

Summary: 

A job site for those who want to get jobs in Korea. 

( Both Koreans and Foreigners ) 

Launched in : 2001. Aug./ Language : English, Korean. 

- For the companies operating in Korea to offer jobs. 

- Useful contents for those who want to get jobs in Korea. 

- Provides sources on the Korean labor culture. 

Koreajoblink is a site for fluent English speakers 

and employers to get together. 

The site is now the foremost gateway-to-Korea site 

with visitors from all around the globe. 

Bestjobs: 

Bestjobs is very salient in the respect that the users are mostly 

specialists experienced in their fields. The quality of the members 

and the job offers are as different as night and day when compared 

to other job portals. 

your career progression: 

- How big is the organization? 

- How many people are in your team? 

- Who did you report to? 

- What is your role in the department? 

- Why are you considering leaving the current position? 

- Why did you leave ABC Corp.? 

Remember, an interview has to be a conversation between two 

parties. That means, you always have to think about what the interviewer 

will ask next once you give an answer to a question. 

Here are some useful expressions in talking about your career. 

I started my career at ABC Company. 

I joined BCD Corp as a sales manager in 2004. 

I was dispatched to work in another location due to the project. 

After the project was completed, I left the company to go back 

to school. 

I was transferred to another department. 

I took the chance to work in the branch office in Bangkok. 

The very best job opening information 

- Launched in 2001. 

- Nearly all the job openings of the search firms operating in 

Korea are gathered. 

- Focused on job seekers. 

- The best job site in quality&quantity. 

- Sending customized job information by mail. 

- Provides resume-sending service on a massive scale 

Jobs for Foreigners 

COMPANY POSITION WORK SITE CONTACT PHONE No. 

ANS Korea Marketing executive in Manila Phillipines Manila Phillipines Harry Chung 822-725-2170 

CDI Holdings Full-time editor positions Seoul CDI Recruiting Center 822-3444-9402 

Clako Intenational Intrnational marketing manager Seoul Terry Kim 822-3663-1001 

COTECNA INSPECTION, PHILS., INC Accountant Seoul Josie Unarce 632-638-0240 

Damith Nakandala Teacher of English Damith Nakandala 949-1567-6594 

DLG Media Typist Steffy Yeon 822-8546-2452 

Gentex Corporation Account manager Seoul Bob Farnum 822-772-1800 

Gentex Corporation Product/sales engineer Seoul Bob Farnum 822-772-1801 

Gentex Corporation Quality manager Seoul Bob Farnum 822-772-1802 

Hyundai welding co.,ltd. Welding consumables trade specialists Seoul Sung Min Lee 822-6230-6011 

katia video English/French speaking Korean asociate katia herberichs 822-2259-1983 

KBS World English News Team Part-time news editor Seoul Kim Dong-hwan 822-781-3716 

MRI Korea International marketing specilalist Seoul Judy Jang 822-2016-5528 

New Horizons Korea, Inc. Instructor Seoul JunHyung Yoon 822-723-7815 

NewYork Real Estate Agency Marketing manager Seoul Park 822-529-2089 

Pharmaceutical Services Corp. Administrator/office manager Roselle Beltran 626-792-1649 

Pharmaceutical Services Corp. Administrator/office manager Roselle Beltran 626-792-1649 

RTT Asia-Pacific marketing manager Seoul Jeenie Yoo 822-6082-0826 

Jobs for Koreans 

EMPLOYER POSITION SEARCH FIRM PHONE No. 

Consumer product company PR Manager Sodium Search inc. 02-567-4104 

Automobile parts company Sales manager for seal products Core Search inc. 02-761-6123 

Cable TV company Marketing manager People consulting group 02-2016-6600 

Conglomerate M&A specialist People consulting group 02-2016-6600 

World famous LCD company CVD HW Engineer People consulting group 02-785-2676 

Major electronics company Network system engineer People consulting group 02-2016-6600 

Conglomerate AF (Auto Focus) developer People consulting group 02-785-2724 

Global financial Institutions Credit Risk Manager People consulting group 02-785-2723 

Prominent venture company Sales Manager EM Consulting 02-765-2141 

Famous foreign company Marketing communication manager EM Consulting 02-765-2141 

Famous foreign company Strategic Marketer EM Consulting 02-765-2141 

Conglomerate HR manager EverBrain Consulting 02-551-1025 

Online shopping mall company System Administrator EverBrain Consulting 02-551-1023 

Embedded device company Circuit designer HiJob 031-711-0311 

Chemical company R&D staff HiJob 031-711-0311 

Chemical company Application Engineer for Polyimide mater HiJob 031-711-0311 

Chemical company Chemical Product Sales manager HiJob 031-711-0311 

Chemical company Chemical Product Process Engineer HiJob 031-711-0311 

Chemical company R&D staff HiJob 031-711-0311 

Logistics company DB analyzing staff JM Search 02-785-2810 

100% foreign owned Automotive company Manufacturing Engineer Next Selection 02-542-9861 

100% foreign owned Automotive company Production Supervisor Next Selection 02-542-9861 

100% foreign owned pharmaceutical company Business Development Manager Next Selection 02-542-9861 

IT company IP QoS researcher SRA-Korea 02-2202-3578 

IT company IP Layer3 researcher SRA-Korea 02-2202-3578 

Semiconductor company Driver IC engineer SRA-Korea 02-2202-3578 

KOSDAQ listed company LCD design exp. Korea Brain 02-3475-2875 

DMB development company Solution S/W developer Korea Brain 02-3475-2840 

DMB development company DMB, H/W developer Korea Brain 02-3475-2840 

Venture company RTOS developer Korea Brain 02-3475-2805 

Embedded systems company Solution developer Korea Brain 02-3475-2840 



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Company Directory 

From this issue, The Korea IT Times inserts “Company Directory,” starting from 

Mobile Phone Segment. This column is scheduled to insert continuously “Company 

Directory” in the fields of Mobile Phone, Mobile Phone Parts Repeater, display, Set 

Top Box, Digital TV, Security, Games, Mobile Solution, SI, Telematics, MP3 Player, 

DVR, Post PC, Rechargeable Battery and High Speed Internet. 



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Korea. Simply Unbeatable 

When it comes to investment decisions, nowhere has the edge on Korea 

WHY KOREA 

Talented Human Resources Substantial Domestic Economy Excellent Profitability Advanced ICT 

Environment 

Strategic Regional Location Creativity and Innovation State-of-the-art Infrastructure 

World-class Multinational Companies 

Strong Government Support 

Stimulating Lifestyle 

www.mocie.go.kr 

Dedicated to the success of foreign investment in Korea. 

www.investkorea.org

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