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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
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Organized by
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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,
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Contents
31 CeBIT Special
Digital products with various functions
originating from digital convergence to
make conspicuous showing
March 2006 / Vol. 21
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University/ Kyung Hee Cyber Education
Ubiquitous University Offering Superior Cyber
Education
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Korea@CeBIT 2006
Digital products with various functions originating from
digital convergence to make conspicuous showing
Wibro, DMB Overseas Promotion Bureau: DMB
Spreads Wings to Overseas Markets
KOSA Leads SW Firms Delegation to CeBIT 2006
Opening the Door to the 4G Era
Latest Trends in Multimedia Technology
New Approaches to e-Trade and Home Security:
INVESTCLUB
Poised to Capture Overseas Markets: MultiChannel Labs
Korean SMEs at CeBIT 2006
Korean Firms at CeBIT 2006
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VoIP/ VON Spring 2006
World’s VoIP Experts Head for San Jose
LG-Nortel: Canadian-Korean Partnerships Making
Waves
Samsung Networks: The Customer Comes First
Skype: Korea’s Premier e-Commerce Community
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On the Scene Report
iPark Beijing: Smoothing the Way in China
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Publisher’s Message
Wishing Korean Firms Success at CeBIT 2006 Hannover!
Expected “M1 Project” to Herald the $30,000 Per Capita Era
Editorial
Netizens’ Privacy Under Threat
Expert Column
The Robot Era-Coming Soon to Households Near You!
Industry/ SEMI Korea
SEMICON 2006 Sets New Standards
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Game Industry/ KAIA
Amusement Arcade Industry Faces Hurdles
Opinion
CeBIT Offers Golden Opportunities to Korea’s SMEs
Policy Directions
Balanced Development of Software and Hardware
Policy Direction
MIC Unveils its Annual Operations Plan for 2006
Academia/KICS
Time to Loosen Restrictions
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New Growth Engine/ Energy
MOCIE Focuses on Energy Creation as New Growth Engine
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New Growth Engine/ Design Powerhouse
Korea: Emerging Design Powerhouse?
22
Open Korea/ Invest Korea Head
Securing Korea’s Future through FDI
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IT Leader/ president Byun Bo-kyung, Kolon Data
Communication
Managing the Change from ‘E’ to ‘U’
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Financing IT/ Korean Re
Re, a Reinsurance Firm Poised to Rank Among Global Top 10
by 2020
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People
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
Former MOCIE Minister Selected as New Head of KITA
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Korea: Emerging Design Powerhouse?
Chairman & Publisher
Executive Advisor
President & Publisher
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52 VoIP/VON Spring 2006
New MOCIE Minister Outlines Roadmap for Year Ahead
Shin Bak-jae Appointed as Chairman of FORCA
India Special
India Super IT Power and Paradise of Wellness
Incredible India: Korean Flocking to India for Healthcare,
Tourism and Buddhist Roots
IT Essay
Applying Digital Technology to Korea’s ‘Hallyu’ Boom
MIC News
MI Project to Make Korea Global Mobile Leader
MIC and EUCCK Sign an Agreement for IT Cooperation
MIC and MOCT Sign MOU on ‘u-City’ Construction
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
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Country Report
Mystical Morocco Embraces ICT
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News Panorama
Busan New Port in Full Swing
BPA Bidding Strongly to Host 2011 IAPH Conference in Busan
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News Briefs
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2006 Global Exhibition Schedule
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Jobseekers & Openings
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Company Directory
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Publisher’s Message
Editorial
Wishing Korean Firms Success at CeBIT 2006 Hannover!
Netizens’ Privacy Under Threat
Expected “M1 Project” to Herald the $30,000 Per Capita Era
ith 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!
W
Kim Tae-sub
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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
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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
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.
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.
R
obots 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.
What time weakens, nature can strengthen.
Yim Chu-hwan,
president of ETRI
By Yim Chu-hwan
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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)
C
eBIT 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.
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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
he 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
Balanced Development of Software and Hardware
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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?
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
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
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 indus-
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
try, 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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Policy Direction / MIC
MIC Unveils its Annual
Operations Plan for 2006
T
he 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
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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
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
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.
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.
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
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Academia / KICS
Time to Loosen Restrictions
Convergence and integration of technologies and
services in terms of the u-IT839 Strategy demands
new approach
n 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.
O
Korea’s top institute in the IT field
What is most noteworthy among the
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
Digital Home Workshop hosted by KICS
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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.”
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.”
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
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.
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New Growth Engine / Energy
MOCIE Focuses on Energy
Creation as New Growth Engine
Reform of Korea National Oil Corporation high on the agenda
T
ed by Iran’s nuclear development issue and
he Ministry of Commerce, Industry and
Nigeria’s unstable oil supply in the wake of
Energy (MOCIE) will place the focus of its
recent unrest,” he said.
energy policy for 2006 on energy creation
As of Feb. 1, 2006, international oil prices hit
as a new growth engine, Lee Won-gul, vice mina record high with the Dubai oil reaching $61.1
ister of the MOCIE, said recently.
per barrel. The average oil price between Jan. 1
“In 2006, the ministry will firm up its base to
and Feb. 21 this year stood at $58.22 per barrel,
expand the energy supply capacity on a stabiup 51.6% from a year earlier and up 8.8% from
lized basis, while promoting the public functionthe end of last year.
ality of energy,’ said the vice minister in an
“To effectively cope with the recent high oil
interview with the Korea IT Times.
prices, the government will exert all-out efforts
The ministry will map out the third electric
to secure energy and resources stably through
power supply and demand basic plan, which
expansion of development of overseas
includes the implementation of a contract to
resources,” Lee said.
introduce LNG on a long-term basis after 10
“The government will also seek ways to
years and the setup of a long-term plan for the
improve efficiency of energy use and bolster its
coal industry.
energy-saving policy, while striving to develop
Along with this, the ministry will activate
Lee Won-gul,
future energy, including new and renewable
development of overseas resources by pushing
vice minister of the MOCIE
energy,” he said.
for revision of the Korea Petroleum Corporation
Along with this, the ministry will enhance its ability to cope
Act in such a way as to actively foster enterprises exclusively
with possible crises, including worsening of the Iranian nuclear
dealing with resources development and introducing the oil field
issue, by expanding its oil storage for emergency.
development fund amounting to 200 billion won, he said.
As part of its efforts to save more energy, the ministry will
“At the same time, we will strive to create a new growth engine
encourage people to participate in the energy saving campaign
in the energy sector through active fostering of the market-friendly
voluntarily, while accelerating the conversion into an energy low
energy saving industry and the new and renewable energy industry,
consumption society on a mid- and long-term basis.
advancement into overseas markets by the domestic energy industry
In case self-regulatory steps reach a limit owing to an abnorand expansion of R&D investment,” said the vice minister.
mal surge in oil prices, the government will seriously consider
Also, the government plans to strengthen public function by
employing a compulsory energy saving measures on a step-byenhancing equality of the energy service for the low-income
step basis, he said.
bracket.
Commenting that Korea depends for 97% of the energy it uses
Asked about the government’s measures to tide over the era of
on foreign countries, Vice Minister Lee stressed the necessity of
high oil prices, Vice Minister Lee said, “In the past two years,
securing energy stably.
international crude oil prices structurally upgraded by one step
“In line with this, the government has set development of overunder the pressure of a rising demand for oil amid the favorable
seas resources as a national agenda and has been pushing ahead
global economy and restrictions on oil producing countries’ abiliwith proper measures through hosting of national energy consultaty for surplus supply,” said Lee.
tion meetings, which are presided over by the president,” he said.
“Entering this year, the global oil prices continue rising, affect-
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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).
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.
“Under the basic plan to privatize
affiliates of KEPCO, the
government selected KOSEP as the
first target for privatization and
tried to do so.”
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.
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 over-
seas 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.
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New Growth Engine / Design Powerhouse
Korea: Emerging Design Powerhouse?
KIDP aims to make Korea the world’s 7th design powerhouse by 2008
he 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.”
T
Regional design reform projects
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
the importance of the design industry, support for
Accordingly, KIDP plans to Despite
the design sector is still insufficient.
newly establish and operate regional
design industry, in June.
design reform projects in order to set up a regional integrationThe 13th Korea Youth Design Exhibition, which provides
type design reform system.
young design hopefuls with hope and the future vision, will be
“Through activation of regional culture projects, including
held in August.
design exhibitions and design contests, we also project to
Also, KIDP plans to hold the 2006 Design College
expand regional ability in the design field,” said the top manager
Exhibition, which links college graduates to employment
of the KIDP.
through their works, at COEX, southern Seoul in November.
“First of all, we will push for the national environment
In particular, KIDP projects to organize the “Design Korea
design improvement project to spread the design conception to
2006 - Shanghai” event in China in November this year to help
all environmental and public facilities, including residential and
Korean enterprises and design-specialized companies lay
office spaces and roads. We will improve the national image
cornerstone for advancement into the Chinese market, the
strategically,” Kim said.
biggest in the world.
Along with this, KIDP will make best efforts to enhance
“We plan to introduce superiority of Korean design by
global competitiveness of the design industry. It will also push
heralding the nation’s excellent design products and enterprises
for bolstering the design competitiveness through reform of a
to Chinese enterprises. It is the second event KIDP held in
professional company-centered system by actively fostering
China, following the ‘Design Korea 2004 - Beijing.’ We
competitive core and sound design enterprises and strengthening
finished the Beijing event successfully by attracting more than
report conditions by design professional companies.
50,000 visitors a day and receiving requests from the Chinese
At the same time, it will offer differentiated supporting
side to extend the exhibition period,” Kim said.
measures to design enterprises according to the maturity stage,
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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?
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.
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
Q: KIDP has been implementing a variety of proprocess of solving problem, design can
jects for small and medium-sized entersuggest useful solutions to many problems
prises. Would you introduce some prospreading in the overall society.
jects?
In particular, design can be an effective
A: KIDP has been spending some 12
strategy for enterprises to create openbillion won ($12.3 million based on 2005) a
minded corporate culture, explore new
year for a variety of projects supporting
markets and manage total brands. If we
small and medium-sized enterprises.
define that design is a process of
First of all, KIDP has been carrying out
commercializing technology and idea,
the design reform technology development
design will decide the method of meeting
project, which helps small and mediumcommodity and service with customer.
sized enterprises suffering from shortage of
A report announced by the economic
design development ability or designers
research institute of a company defined
develop new designs of products, packages,
that a good design refers to a design
characters and brands by linking them with
offering good experience to customers
design-specialized
companies
or
until they buy, use and abolish a product.
universities,
Kim Chul-ho,
Accordingly, we can say that the role
It also extends loans up to 1 billion won
president and CEO of the KIDP
of design is to reflect consumers’
($1.02 million) to smaller companies at
conscious and unconscious expectations and desire to
favorable terms and conditions for development of design
product through study on users.
reform technology.
After selecting success design products among goods
produced by enterprises that participated in the design
Q: Would you introduce design-related success storeform technology development project, KIDP supports
ries of global enterprises?
them for PR and sales promotion activities.
A: Viewing such global enterprises as Philips, Apple,
Since 2004, KIDP has been focusing its supports on
British Airways, IBM and Nike, we can know that they
smaller companies producing the world’s top-class products
achieved success by using design as a core managerial
or next-generation growth-oriented goods.
strategy.
It is also actively supporting companies exclusively
Apple CEO Steve Jobs who succeeded in coming back
engaging in development, survey, analysis, and consultation
with such reformative design products as iMac and iPod,
businesses of industrial design.
said, “Design is the soul in the center of manmade
creations.” He has a firm design mind and has pushed ahead
with design management.
Q: Do you have any comments on the design indusUnder the recognition that design is the last place to
try?
contend for victory, Lee Kun-hee, chairman of Samsung
A: Now design has become the last place for enterprises
Group, has emphasized securing design competitiveness for
to contend for victory. The design sector is an advanced
production of world premium products.
industry carrying high value added and a core engine power
According to a research report announced by Design
to narrow the nation’s gap with advanced countries.
Council of Britain, the stock value of design-centered
Accordingly, concern and investment in the design
enterprises in the British FTSE 100 index (stock index of
industry will be a short cut to make Korea an advanced
top 100 enterprises jointly operated by London Stock
country with per capita national income of over $20,000.
Exchange and Financial Times) soared as much as 200%
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/ Invest KOREA Head
Securing Korea’s
Future through FDI
W
ith 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 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.”
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
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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.
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 pro-
actively 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.”
Foreign direct investment - associated R&D incentives
Qualifications
Business within the category of
HIGH-TECH BUSINESS or
INDUSTRY SUPPORT SERVICES
Benefits
Tax Holidays (5yrs 100%, 2yrs 50%)
Lease of Land in FIZ
Financial Support for Employment & Training
Foreign
Investment
Zone
Manufacturing
FDI $30M
New Establishment of Plant
R&D
HIGH-TECH Status
New R&D Facilities & FDI $5M
Over 10 of R&D Personnel
Tax Holidays (5 yrs 100%, 2 yrs 50%)
Documentation with Local
Lease of Land
Government
Support for Basic Infrastructure
Application to MOCIE
Financial Support for Employment & Training Evaluation by Foreign Investment
Committee
Cash Grant
HIGH-TECH status
(or Parts & Material Speciality)
Manufacturing
New Plant Facilities & FDI $10M
R&D
New R&D Facilities & FDI $5M
Over 20 of R&D Personnel
Granted Cash can be used for
Employment & Training
Land Acquisition & Rent
Construction Cost
Set-up Cost for Basic Infrastructure
Purchase of Capital Goods, R&D
equipment & Materials
HIGH-TECH
Status
Procedure
Application to MOFE
Evaluation of the Application
Final Decision in 20 days
Designation of Negotiation Partner
Preliminary Negotiation with MOCIE
Application to MOCIE
Evaluation by Foreign Investment
Committee
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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
In particular, the company has been
leader who can’t contribute to a considerable efforts to seeking and
progressing its preparations from last year,
transformation, is not a leader!” So selecting a business group befitting its
says Kolon Data Communication capabilities by excluding product regarding Kolon Data Communication’s
future business engine as ‘Ubiquitous’.
(www. kdc.kolon.com) president & CEO production participation such as chip and
Byun Bo-kyung, who strongly believed in equipment etc. As a result, the company First, Byun is proud that Kolon Data
this philosophy as he successfully mapped selected four business themes - namely, U Communication has secured technology
out a new business blueprint for the City, U Home, U Healthcare, & RFID. power and competitiveness with its
company’s restructuring over the past Byun notes that Kolon Data Ubiquitous business cooperation MOU
Communication is enlarging organization, conclusion with IBM on May, 2005 and
three years.
with the company’s participation
The growing trend of an IT
in Busan U City Project’s
industry environment shift from
Information Strategic Plan.
“E” (Internet) to “U” (Ubiquitous)
On the basis of such
has begun in earnest. Thus, the
experiences, Kolon Data
spotlight is focusing more and
Communication has preparations
more on how fast IT enterprises
to participate in two or three local
are adapting by acquiring the
autonomous entities’ U City
capabilities needed in this
project business under way and
changing environment by
Kolon is planning to raise its
transforming their companies.
competitiveness by enlarging U
In anticipation of such trends,
City project participation in the
Kolon Data Communication is
coming months too.
poised to produce goods and
In the case of U Healthcare as
services well-suited to the
well as U Learning field, results
Ubiquitous environment and to
began to pay off from the second
leap into the next stage of
half of last year including
becoming a specialized total IT
‘Gangwon Province remote
service company. Byun Bo-kyung, Strategic agreement between Kolon Data Communication and
medical examination & treatment
president & CEO, Kolon Data US Echelon.
system’ etc. and the ‘Seoul
Communication, underscores that
companies cannot survive without being
the personnel, and business performance National University Hospital Ubiquitous
differentiated, adding that Kolon Data by reorganizing into a U solution team and medical management system’s order
Communication’s new challenge is to U Infra team, approaching 2006 as the first followed in January this year.
Byun expects that such results will be
transform itself such a specialized total IT year of Ubiquitous business.
service enterprise, with priority given to
On the business front, Kolon Data more brisk as Ubiquitous business begins
four business themes such as U City, U Communication has concluded a in earnest this year. Besides, Kolon Data
Home, U Healthcare and RFID (Radio collaboration MOU (memorandum of Communication is considering health
Frequency Identification).
understanding) in conjunction with the consultation business through wire &
Ubiquitous part of IBM last year and has wireless networks connected with medical
entered into a strategic alliance with the institutions and health information service
Ubiquitousness as the future business
U.S. firm Echelon to make inroads into firms and plans to embark actively upon
engine
Kolon Data Communication’s open-model control networks in February remote medical examination and treatment
business.
Ubiquitous business has devoted this year, Byun explained.
A
“
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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.”
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Financing IT / Korean Re
Korean Re, a Reinsurance Firm Poised
to Rank Among Global Top 10 by 2020
K
orean 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.
In an interview with the Korea IT
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
made a presence in the
Vision 2020. Vision
domestic reinsurance
2010 is an execution
market, resulting in
plan to achieve the
fierce competition, said
Vision 2020 ahead of
Park.
schedule.
Noting that the year
"Under the mid-way
2006 will be a very
plan, total assets and
important turning point
gross written premiums
for Korean Re, which
are expected to reach 5
has posted high growth
trillion won ($5.17 bilfor the past seven years,
lion), making Korean
he said, "As a result, we
Re the 12th reinsurer in
set the construction of a
the world by 2010,"
core ability to become a
said Park.
top-notch company as
Asked about the
the 2006 managerial tar2006 managerial stratePark Jong-won, chairman
get."
gy, Chairman Park said,
& president of Korean Re
Along with this,
"The current reinsurKorean Re will expand
ance business environits growth base by exploring new domestic
ment is extremely difficult as the Korean
reinsurance market, the 8th largest in the and overseas markets and actively creating
world, has already become saturated with demand for new products. In order to
achieve the "Vision 2010," the company
growth showing signs of stagnation.
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
"Commercial lines such as fire and bolster competitiveness, Park said, "In
engineering insurance, which reap high terms of capital volume, Korean Re has
returns, are losing their ground as domestic remarkably strengthened its financial base
manufacturing firms are moving to coun- by achieving a high annual average growth
tries that provide ‘cheap labor’, and most of 13% and handsome net profits."
In particular, by consistently reserving
of the major global reinsurers have all
“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,”
13.6% for the past seven years
(1998~2004) and is currently ranked as the
world’s 16th largest reinsurer," said the 62year-old professional manager.
In January 2006, Korean Re set up the
"Vision 2010," a mid-way plan to attain the
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50-60 billion won ($51.7-60.2 million) in
net profit every year without capital
The following are excerpts from an interview with Park Jong-won, chairman
increase, the company’s security ability,
& president of Korean Re:
comprising total capital and reserve fund for
emergent risk, are likely to have reached
Q: Korean Re has enjoyed sustainable growth in capital volume and
700 billion won ($724 million) in the fiscal
security ability, while securing the No. 1 position in the domestic reinsuryear 2006, a 2.6-fold rise from 1998.
ance market. How about the credit rating of Korean Re appraised by
By expanding the in-house reserve conglobal credit rating agencies?
tinuously through development of new
A: A.M. Best, one of the world’s top credit rating agencies, has given Korean
products, bolstering of the business in the
Re an "A- (excellent)" rating, citing the Korean reinsurer’s excellent business
overseas markets and maintenance of net
results, its leading role in the local market, ability to provide timely reinsurance
profits, it plans to expand the security abiliproducts satisfying market needs, stable investment portfolio and effective distrity to 1.5 trillion won ($1.5 billion) in 2010.
bution of risk.
"Korean Re has placed the
As Korean Re gained the "A-" rating for the
focus of its overseas market
fourth consecutive year from A.M. Best for its
strategy on reinforcing its leader
outstanding managerial ability, it has firmed up
position in the Asian market, and
its leadership position in the local and overseas
eventually leaping to become a
markets.
leading global reinsurer," he
Meanwhile, as foreign investors’ confidence
said, adding that it will expand
in Korean Re has been also rising steadily, it is
the portion of gross written preexpected to have a superior position in its busimium from overseas business
ness relations with foreign reinsurers.
from 10% of the entire premium
In the domestic market, the market value of
income and to 20% in 2010, and
Korean Re has been going up gradually owing
further to 50% in 2020.
to its stable credit rating and robust growth in
"As China has completely
capital volume and aggressive overseas busiabolished the protection barriers
ness strategy.
for its reinsurance company
Accordingly, the total market value of
China Re in 2006, I think, Chairman Park(right) receives the management Korean Re amounted to 1 trillion won ($1.03
grand prize from “Money Today”, a
Korean Re is able to seek new innovation
billion) as of February 2006, the second biggest
local daily newspaper.
ways for growth in the giant
in the domestic insurance industry, and the forpotential market in Asia through active local
eign equity ratio in Korean Re expanded to 42%.
marketing activities," he said.
By strengthening relations with major
Q: Would you introduce your company’s win-win strategy, which
local reinsurers and actively attacking acciensures mutual profits between primary insurance and reinsurance
dent, motor, and liability insurance markets
companies?
in China, Korean Re aims at expanding its
A: By developing new products such as D&O and CI (critical illness) insursales by more than 30% every year, he said.
ance suitable for changing needs of the insurance market and providing them to
Along with this, Korean Re plans to
local primary insurance companies, Korean Re is revitalizing the dormant primaadvance into the Asian engineering and
ry insurance market and creating new reinsurance demands, offering more opporEAR (erection-all-risks) markets by utiliztunities for growth to local insurers.
ing its accumulated experience and knowMoreover, despite the hardening conditions of the global reinsurance market
how from the domestic CAR (constructionin the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorists’ attacks on the United States, Korean Re has
all-risks) market.
supported the stability of the Korean primary insurance companies by supplying
In the European marine insurance and
sufficient reinsurance coverage.
aviation markets it has enjoyed remarkable
results, Korean Re will continue strengthenQ: Would you comment on your managerial philosophy?
ing its position as a leader by providing varA: First of all, I place the emphasis on transparent management based on princiious insurance services based on its knowlple.
edge and know-how from its 40-year
Secondly, I think responsible management is very important. The CEO should
domestic business operations, and eventualtake the initiative in advancing the company.
ly expand into the Latin American and the
Thirdly, reformative management is the only way for a company to survive fierce
East European markets.
competition in a rapidly changing insurance market.
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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
W
ith 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
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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
President Park Kun-woo of KHCU
education, we
support software
out online and offline education simultanerelated to lecture development and supply ously is a global trend and in that regard
studios (including a virtual studio) for a there are areas where cyber education in
sound environment for lecture develop- Korea still is not activated. Concerning
ment.”
doubts about the university’s education
In a nutshell, Kyung Hee Cyber quality or degree recognition, the president
University’s superiority is set apart in that 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
it offers supporting functions for profes- than off-line education provided by general
sors’ online teaching (video chatting, real- universities.
time seminar, chatting room, asynchronous
Showing the excellence of the educadiscussion room, SMS, mail, note, one-to- tion competitiveness of Kyung Hee Cyber
one counseling, blog, community etc.) and University, the ex-diplomat president
learning management, as well as evalua- added that KHCU has started credit
tion function that makes students possible exchange with Kyung Hee University, its
to evaluate not only learning process but mother University, since the first semester
outcomes from educational programmes
of 2004. With this, students can attend lecthrough LMS (Learning Management tures up to 24 credits, 3 credits per semesSystem) developed by KHCU.
ter without extra fees in Kyung Hee
University.
Way forward for an advanced country
President Park, who believes that the
First of all, President Park proposed that credit exchange program gives the most
cyber education can pave the way for an efficient synergy effect in boosting stuadvanced country, explaining that carrying dents’ 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’ Kyung Hee Cyber Univ. graduates, whose
matriculation rate into graduate school is
limitations, and we can seek after excellent.
learner-centered education.” In conforthcoming Spring semester, 2006 plus
junction with this, President Park points
out: “For cyber education to occupy its setting up a study hall and installing ‘Cyber
firm position thoroughly, negative factors Korean Language Programme’ as part of a
must not appear so that student can study global cyber campus at Hanoi University
of Foreign Studies in Vietnam,
free from all anxiety”.
He continued, “I would say the future of Ulaanbaatar University in Mongolia, 4 unicyber university is considerably bright con- versities in the Philippines and the National
sidering Korea’s world best IT infrastruc- Association for Korean Studies (NAKS) in
ture”, adding that cyber education has high U.S.A.
With dissemination and development of
probability that it can solve diverse probInternet market in Korea, cyber education
lems of offline universities in Korea and
will become a learner-oriented education
present the possibility of a new model of
system, more systematically and diversely,
university education.
In relation to Hanryu (Korean Wave) he said.
To develop KHCU as one of the world
fever too, KHCU shows big enthusiasm
with its plan to establish a Department of best cyber universities is likely to be the
Korean Culture and Language from the top priority task for it this year.
Kyung Hee Cyber Univ.’s virtual chromakey studio(left), and library(right)
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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.
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A Plethora of Digital Products, Solutions to be Showcased
2006
Hannover
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
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
Major Items Displayed at the Korean Pavilion
to make conspicuous showing. The
combining of home entertainment with
Items
No. Major Participants
mobile technologies, in particular, is
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,
expected to make a striking debut since it has
Multi-channel, Fusionsoft, Dizipia
become possible to adopt more innovative
MP3 player
24 Ugcom, Diasonic, Stormblue, Bluzen, Oracom, I-bead, Technovas, PlayM,
products and services thanks to the continued
Maycom, Enox, S-Cam, Multi-channel, Hyunwon, Ugcom, Diasonic,
growth of the cell phone market and the
Stormblue, Bluzen, Oracom, I-bead, Technovas, PlayM, Seju Engineering
LCD TV
10 Sodiff, KTV Global, Atec, GPNC, 3 Gate, Namjootech, Pavonine, Nexio,
increased accessibility of the broadband
Dong Yang, Indtek,
Internet.
Bluetooth products (wireless
11 KTV Global, Stromblue, Kyungjin, Ugcom, Sungjin Techwin, AsianaIDT,
headsets, and others)
Security products (fingerprint
readers, locks & others)
DMB equipment
Internet phones
RFID systems
DVDs
multimedia web authoring tools
PC accessories
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SB Telekom, Ufosys, PlayM, Sprite, Hanho Electronics
Wareplus, Green Optics, Ufosys
9
2
4
3
2
20
Pixtree
Wooksung Electronics, Kyunggee Electronics
ASB, Duali, Wareplus, Keico
DTS, Ellion, Dinss
Parasys, Investclub
PC Accessories
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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.
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DMB Spreads Wings
to Overseas markets
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
ith 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
W
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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
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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.
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.
Massive information in real-time, bidirectional & cost-effectiveness
In this regard, Mr. Lee insists that
Korea’s terrestrial DMB particularly holds
Korea must approach overseas markets by combining the cutting edges of DMB and
WiBro.
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KOSA Leads SW Firms
Delegation to CeBIT 2006
Korean Pavilion to showcase 20 software SMEs from Korea
T
he 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
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CeBIT 2006 Korea Pavilion Participants for Software
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
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Company Name
Billit
Ceyon Tech. Co., Ltd.
Digent Co., Ltd
E-star Labratories, Inc.
emFrontier, Inc?
Haansoft
Hampex
iCube
Jinwoo Soft Innovation?
Korea Wisenut
MarkAny Inc.
MediaSolution, Inc.
Mobile Compia
Nainworks. Co., Ltd
Nexuschips Co. Ltd
Qtelsoft Co.,Ltd.
Rsupport Co.,Ltd.
TheMAP
Urirang World Co., Ltd.
ViaScope Int
Booth Number & Website
A31-G www.billit.co.kr
A31H www.ceyon.co.kr
A31-F www.digent.com
A31-I www.estarlab.com
A31-D www.emfrontier.com
A31-C www.hannsoft.com
A31-K www.hampex.com
A31-A www.icube.co.kr
A31-M www.jinwoo.co.kr
A31-O www.wisenut.co.kr
A31-Q www.markany.com
A31-E www.mediasol.co.kr
A31-B www.mobilecompia.co.kr
A31-L www.nainworks.co.kr
A31-S www.nexuschips.com
A31-N www.Qtel.co.kr
A31-T www.rsupport.com
A31-J www.themap.co.kr
A31-P www.urirang.co.kr
A31-R www.viascope.com
Products
IP Contact Center Solutions ( IP-PBX, IP-IVR, IP-Recorder, CTI middleware)
RFID Reader, RFID Writer
Fingerprint Authentication Security Software/Hardware
Digital Audio Player
Warehouse Management System
WITOOLS, UDS(Ubiquitous Document Service)
Symbian Smartphone Solution, T-DMB receivers, Bluetooth module, Mobile AD
Digital Media Adaptor, Wireless TV Tuner, Digital Network Audio Player
Taxi Telematics
Integrated Search Engine
Document Security Solution, Multimedia Security Solution
Kiosk Contents Authoring & Remote Management Tool
rugged,super slim Industrial PDA “M3” for enterprise mobile applications
Multimedia Player, VR Solution base on Movie Picture
Graphic Accelerator Chip Solution for Mobile Device
Web3D Virtual Reality Total Solution (Qavatar MA, Q3D.net)
Web-based Remote Support Solutions
CNS/ Multimedia Device
e-Book Solution, Web Coworker
Secure IP Address Management
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Opening the Door
to the 4G Era
Samsung takes the lead in globalizing 4G technology with Korea’s WiBro
S
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
4G forum standardization organizations/forum status
Telecommunity (APT)
By Region
and its subsidiary APT
Global
ITU
-It is the biggest standardization organization in the IT sector.
Wireless
Forum
It approves sizes related to IT in the world.
Europe
WWRF
-The most influential 4G international forum, led by Nokia, Ericsson and Siemens. (AWF) represent Asia
Asia-Pacific region
APT
-Communication-related organization seeking common interests in the
and Pacific regions.
Asia-Pacific regions.
The Ministry of
By Country
South Korea
NGMC Forum -It engages in study on Korea’s 4G and decides standardization strategy,
Information
and
led by the Ministry of Information and Communication.
Communication also
-Samsung chairs the subcommittee of system & technology.
Japan
mITF
-It is an organization with the purpose of 4G study and standardization,
plans to develop a test
led by the Japanese government.
system to implement
China
FuTURE
-It engages in study of wireless communication under the Chinese
4G technology by
government’s 863 tasks of the 10th five-year plan (2001-2005).
amsung 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.
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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.
Samsung Electronics plans to create a successful image of Korea’s IT through
globalization of WiBro.
“Through globalization of WiBro, the pure
locally developed communication technology, we
2007, leading the global standardization and relevant markets.
will create a successful myth of Korea’s IT. 2006 will be the first
Along with this, Next Generation Mobile Communication
year for globalization of WiBro,” said the professional manager.
(NGMC) Forum, which was established jointly by the ministry
WiBro is the homegrown portable Internet that enables peoand domestic major communication providers and makers in
ple on the move to remain hooked up to the Internet at the speed
2003, is seeking close cooperation with the Japanese and
of the current fixed-line broadband. It boasts of the highest data
Chinese 4G standardization organizations “mITF” and
transmission speed among mobile communication technologies.
“FuTURE,” leading the standardization in the Asian and Pacific
In case of succeeding in commercializing WiBro, Samsung
regions.
can download 36-page newspaper within 0.7 seconds and the
In the meantime, Samsung aims at leading the global 4G techMP3 10 melodies within 24 seconds, said Lee.
nology based on WiBro, the locally developed portable Internet.
Meanwhile, market analysts said that President Lee has made
With the global interest in the next-generation mobile coma turning point for Samsung to create the second CDMA myth
munication technology WiBro growing, Samsung has begun to
with the successful demonstration of the commercializationpush for globalization of WiBro.
level WiBro at the APEC.
The electronics maker has set 2006 as the first year to expand
Related to this, Lee said, “In the past, some people were skepthe WiBro business to the world in earnest.
tical about WiBro. However, I had confidence in the possibility
In 2006, Samsung plans to commercialize the WiBro business
of success and poured all of my passion for WiBro.
in earnest and supply WiBro to major communication carriers in
He was always in the forefront of the project to develop and
the world.
demonstrate WiBro along with developers.
After concluding a contract with Sprint Nextel of the United
“In the global communication market in the past, Samsung
States, BT of Britain, KDDI of Japan and TVA of Brazil last
with bare hands had to fight with foreign rivals armed with
year, Samsung has been making a strong push for commercialknives and guns. With the development of WiBro, however, we
ization of the WiBro business.
are now equipped with a wooden sword. Although it is a someAccordingly, Samsung’s WiBro is expected to spread to the
what underestimated metaphorical expression, the important
five Oceans and the six Continents this year.
thing is that we now have a competitive technology we can boast
President Lee said, “Since the nation’s successful hosting of
in the royalty competition.”
the APEC, major communication carriers in the world have been
He said that WiBro is a new blue ocean creating the superexpressing keen interest in WiBro, requesting Samsung to offer
speed wireless data market and the gate of the fourth Internet
the WiBro exemplary service. As a result, the nation’s WiBro
revolution.
service is expected to rush into foreign markets this year.”
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Latest Trends in
Multimedia Technology
LG’s V9000 provides perfect picture quality on a high-resolution screen.
LG Electronics’ V9000 is the definite all-in-one multimedia device.
A
t 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
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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 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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New Approaches to e-Trade
and Home Security
Invest Club sees new opportunities to lead growth of e-Trade and
home security markets
I
technology competitiveness, Invest Club will
nvest Club aims to lead the e-trade and home
develop up-to-date products, including cyber
security industry based on its high-quality prodtrade automatic programs, solutions, IP-based
ucts and customer-oriented strategy, Lee Sungvideo security equipment & solutions, and fingermo, president of the company said.
print recognition door lock.
Invest Club has been focusing on brisk marketAt the same time, it will exert all-out efforts to
ing activities aimed at companies possessing highenhance technology competitiveness through
quality technology or products and small and
active R&D investment and a technology center.
medium-sized companies facing difficulties in
To become a frontier enterprise opening an
finding out buyers, he said.
“online silk road,” Invest Club is developing an
E-trade has been rapidly globalized, away from
e-market place, which enables enterprises to trade
the local retail and wholesale concept, and trade
with foreign partners very easily, almost like
procedures have been simplified gradually, affecttrading at home.
ed by Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), NAFTA
Through the e-market place, users can see
and the EU. It also facilitates easy access to
their trading partner’s factory in a foreign counautomatization programs.
President Lee Sung-mo,
Invest Club
try at anytime easily, he explained.
Accordingly, Invest Club plans to focus on its
At present, it sells a great number of security
overseas marketing activities, including the United
cameras and fingerprint recognition door locks. In the future,
States, China, India, Brazil and Russia, he said.
Invest Club will graft such hardware onto e-market place, being
With differentiated strategy in terms of convenience, quality,
reborn as a trade solution suitable for global trade environment
confidence and safety, Invest Club will attract best companies as
under the FTA.
its members and attack high-class markets in the United States
This technology is the world’s first and new technology, he
this year, he said.
said adding that the products will be more useful for traders in
Through Martbiznet, it plans to engage in active marketing
the future as e-Biz trend is spreading rapidly nowadays.
aimed at various consumers, including retail shops, in addition to
Invest Club, which was inaugurated in 2001 as a trading comexisting large-scale trading companies.
pany, developed global e-market place, which reflected knowInvest Club will make best efforts to make ordering, settlehow of international trade.
ment and delivery systems between countries easier than before,
It is also an e-commerce web solution venture company,
satisfying consumers’ demands for buying domestic and foreign
which signed a contract with World Trade Center (WTC) to
goods directly.
exclusively supply trade-related web solutions by 2011.
Related to this, it will build a shopping mall where smallIt produced online Martibiznet, which makes it possible to
scale retailers and wholesalers to export or import goods directly
engage in international trade through online, optical sensor-type
through an electronics settlement system, he said.
fingerprint recognition door lock, called Libero alpha, and IPBy continuously securing talented people and improving
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Seeqon-nc300
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
Libero
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-ns100
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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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)
MultiChannel Labs
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.
Touching upon its participation background in
ollowing the company’s success in winning
the 2006 CeBIT Germany in an interview with The
contracts amounting to $8.25 million at the
Korea IT Times, Kim elaborated, “Recently, the IT
2006 CES (Consumer Electronics Show) held
market has expanded very rapidly. Furthermore, the
in Las Vegas, the United States in Jan. this year,
needs from the market include highly ranked
MP3 player special manufacturer MultiChannel
technology, various functionalities, multiple
Labs. (www.xclef.com) is poised to capture Europe
purposes and even low cost.”
by its participation in the 2006 CeBIT Germany
In other words, the situation is very tough for a
which will be held on March 9~15, 2006 with the
company which is doing their own development of
support of the Incheon IT Promotion Agency.
multimedia products. In that respect, he asked,
Ahead of its participation in the 2006 CeBIT
“How do many companies meet the needs of
Germany too, MultiChannel Labs has been cutting
market in this condition?” They are worried about
a conspicuous figure in world markets as the
the fact that there might be no way to survive from
company’s product line-ups were favorably
the competition with various manufacturers.
commented upon from buyers in world renowned
CEO Kim Jong-soo,
However, a possible way is to fundamentally
exhibitions by developing diverse products from
MultiChannel Labs
develop unique technology and find out new items
high-end MP3 Player field up to i-PMP (Intelligent
that will match the market trends.
Portable Multimedia Player), HDD multimedia
MultiChannel Labs’ product line-up also such as DivX
player for automotive,PMP with DMB receiver, DVB-T /H
Player and MP3 Player are products that were in that context
receiver , GPS navigation system and so forth.
launched, according to Kim.
At this 2006 CeBIT Germany as well, the company is
First off as to DivX Player, through USB2.0 interface, you
expected to attract lots of attention from on-the-spot buyers with
can save and carry tons of DivX Movie, MP3 Music, JPG Photo,
its product line-ups such as DivX Player, MP3 Player, and
Study Office, game, entertainment multimedia contents data
DMB/DVB-T & Navigation etc.
within 2.5”HDD Disc. Likewise, you can enjoy remarkable
high-quality picture and 5.1 Ch Digital sound which you
Europe: a main market for MultiChannel Labs
downloaded through the Internet freely, he explained.
With a view to realizing the future multimedia society for
He proposed, “Now why don’t you enjoy DivX movies on a
everyone, MultiChannel Labs is always striving to be the best,
general home TV in the living room without gloomy monitor
this company CEO Kim Jong-soo mentioned, on the importance
and computer noise?” In addition to this, you can use this player
of the company’s participation in the 2006 CeBIT Germany,
in vehicles using cigarette jacks and car batteries, Kim added.
referring to the fact that Europe is currently the main market for
Especially, it is available to utilize for education and
the company.
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, Multi X-Gear
the appearance of computers has
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
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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, MultiChannelLabs, 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/DVBT/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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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. WOOKSUNG, 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,
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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 recov-
ery 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 cus-
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tomizing. 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.
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Korean Firms at CeBIT 2006
2006
Hannover
No.
Company Name
Exhibits
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).
Tel.
Homepage
KTC : Chungbuk
1
Myung Information Tecnology Co.,Ltd
(82-43) 218-8400
www.myung.co.kr
Flash Memory Disk, Data Recovery, LCD Repair
2
Green Optics Co., Ltd.
(82-43) 218-2183
www.greenopt.com
Security System & Portable Projector
3
UFOSYS CO.,LTD.
(82-43) 260-1091
www.ufosys.co.kr
Security Equipments,Wireless Camera & IP Camera Server,Integrated Cable for PC peripheral
4
K-TEK.CO.,LTD.
(82-43) 277-9920
www.k-tek.co.kr
Language Learning EarphoneWalking Karaoke EarphoneEarphone for Voice Modulation
Contact Person
E-Mail
Booth No.
Kang-Ae Lee
Hall No.
kang@myung.co.kr
F21-7
25
kdk@greenopt.com
F21-8
25
webmaster@ufosys.co.kr
F21-5
25
bskim@k-tek.co.kr
F21-6
25
Dong-kyun, Kim
Byeong-Ha, Noh
Il-Hun Lee
Organization : KEA (Korea Electronics Association)
1
Sodiff E&T Co., Ltd
(82-31) 900-1641
www.sodiffent.com
I.B. Kim
LCD TV (DBV-T), Wibro Handset
2
SEWOO TECH CO.,LTD
82-31-459-8200
www.miniprinter.com
Eddie Jo
POS receipt printer, Desktop label printer
3
Keico HighTech
82-2-6675-3117
www.keico.co.kr
Jay Koo
Fingerprint & RFID Access Control Systems
4
UGCOM(BRAINIC)
82-2-2163-0270
www.ugcom.net
G.H.LEE
PMP, MP3 Player, Bluetooth Headsets etc.
5
KTV GLOBALCORP.
82-2-589-5385
www.ktvcorp.co.kr
RICKY EOM
LCD TV
6
DigitalZone Co., Ltd.
82-2-6330-2339
www.dzonei.com
Anna Lee
HD Stream Generator, Component Distributor, Component Switcher, HDMI Distributor, DMB Receiver
7
Diasonic Technology Co.,Ltd
82-31-474-0852
www.diasonic.com
Sang-Hyun Kim
Voice Recorder,Speaker,DAB Radio,MP3,Navigation,Digital Photo Frame,Divix Player
8
Remote Solution
82-54-420-4512/4523
www.remotesolution.co.kr Yoon Choi
Remote Controls
9
Sarotech Co.,Ltd
82-2-480-5130
www.sarotech.com
Heidi Kim
Backup storage, Multimedia storage, Network storage
10
Stormblue Co., Ltd.
82-2-2113-8745
www.stormblue.biz
Steve Kim
Bluetooth, DMB Dongle, USB Memory Storage, MP4/MP3 Players
11
SoundGraph, Inc
82-2-569-2097
www.soundgraph.com
SEO, DONG SIK
RF/IR remote control/receiver device & Multi-Media Solution for PC(H/W & S/W)
12
Kyung Jin Electron Co., Ltd
82 2 2113 7200
www.kj-headset.co.kr
Lee, Gi Yong
Headset, Bluetooth, Telephones.
13
ATEC Co., Ltd.
82-2-2190-5175
www.atech.co.kr
Park, Hyoung Jae
LCD PC, LCD Monitor, Web KIOSK, ETC
14
GPNC Co., Ltd
82-2-3283-8251
www.gpnc.co.kr
Jennifer Lee
LCD TV
15
Bluzen inc.
82-2-448-5095
www.bluzen.com
Kim Ho Youl
Player, usb driver,smart card etc.
16
AL Tech Inc
82-2-566-5093
www.airlinktek.com
Jeff Choi
Digital Media Player, DVB-T, AP Router, Car Multi-Media Player (In-Dash)
17
ORACOM Co., Ltd
82-2-563-5633
www.oracom.co.kr
SK Cho
Mini PMP & MP3 player
18
JIUM CO., LTD.
82-41-541-9380
www.e-jium.com
Donnie Kim
Computer Cooling System - CyCooler Laptop, Desktop, Server, DVR Cooler- Industrial Cooling System-Chiller, THC, Panel Cooler
19
D.O.Tel
82-2-850-3650
www.dotel.co.kr
W.S.Seong
Car Navigation,PDA,Mobile POS terminal
20
3SOFT.CO.,LTD.
82-2-541-0453
www.3soft.com
Kim,Sung Hoon
DMB(Digital Multimedia Broadcasting), PMP(Portable Multimedia Player), Navigation
21
Bujeon components.co.ltd
82-31-408-6987
www.bujeon.com
Ken Kim
Micro speaker, ECM, Inductor,transfomer, Vibration Motor, Buzzer
22
AsianaIDT
82-2-2127-8440
www.asianaidt.com
j.e.Oh
Wireless HeadPhone etc.
23
3R SYSTEM CO., LTD.
82-2-702-0687
www.3rsys.com
David Jang
PC Case, Power Supply, Water Cooler
24
V.L System Co., Ltd.
82-2-717-6694
www.vlsys.co.kr
ROY ROH
Computer Multifunctions VFD Display -M-PLAY 202 PLUS, BLAST, MINI
25
i-BEAD Co., Ltd.
82-31-705-6800
www.ibead.co.kr
Sanah Min
MP3 player, Car navigation
26
ZEPETRONIX Co., Ltd.
82-2-6736-6060
www.zepetronix.com
Lee, Yoon Kyoo
Magnetic Card Reader Ticket Issuing MachinePET Card Terminal
27
Technovas.Co.,Ltd.
82-2-2612-2018
www.tclip.net
WonSeok,Han
MP3 Player
28
NEXTO DI Inc.
82-2-589-1083
www.nextodi.com
Mr. Alex Lee
Portable Storage Device OTG for Portable Digital Device IEEE1394 & USB2.0
ibkim@sodiff.net
E22-7/8/9
25
eddie@miniprinter.com
C50-26/27
23
jaykoo@keico.co.kr
C50-28
23
u1lgh@ugcom.net
E22-5/6
25
ricky@ktvcorp.co.kr
E22-16/17/18
25
jylee@dzonei.com
F21-4
25
salesteam@diasonic.com
C02-3
22
choi@remotesolution.co.kr
E22-13
25
heidi@sarotech.com
B06-15/16
22
steve@stormblue.co.kr
B12-3
22
seo@soundgraph.comUSB
C02-2
22
lgiyong@kj-headset.co.kr
B06-6
22
hjpark@atech.co.krLCD TV,
E22-10/11/12
25
jennifer@gpnc.co.krPDP TV,
E22-14/15
25
khy@bluzen.com
B06-11
22
chs0504@airlinktek.com
C50-24
23
skcho@oracom.co.kr
B06-14
22
dhkim@e-jium.com
B06-13
22
wsseong@dotel.co.kr
B06-1
22
kimsh@3soft.com
C50-22/23
23
sales@bujeon.com
B12-4
22
oje3689@asianaidt.com
B12-1/2
22
david@3rsys.com
B06-7/8
22
sales@vlsys.co.kr
B06-5
22
sanah@ibead.co.kr
B12-5
22
yklee@zepe.co.kr
C50-25
23
hanws@technovas.com
B06-4
22
yurchika@nextodi.com
B06-2
22
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2006-03-1
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001 채널맥(3443-0701)
CeBIT 2006 Hannover
29
30
31(*)
The Gate Technology
82-2-407-7918
www.thegate.co.kr
Rolain Yang
Digital pen, Attachable tablet monitor and etc.
3GATE CO., LTD
82-2-701-8540
WWW.3GATE.CO.KR
Miky Kim
LCD Monitor for 17 & 19.
B06-3
22
Savitmicro Co., Ltd.
82-2-838-1394
www.savitmicro.co.kr
Jun Lee
PC Camera, External StorageMultimedia player
Dongyoung Media Co. Ltd
82-31-454-1456
www.dongyoung.com
S.H.Lee
Kitchen AV System, Video Phone, Displays
Kyung Gee Electronics Co.
82-2-3661-3485
www.kgelect.com
Yun-Hee Kim
Internet Phone
ICRAFT
82-2-541-0474
www.icraft21.com
joo ok, hyoun
mobile credit, debit card payment system(mc-printer, mc-reader, IC900B), mobile alcohol checker(mobi-hoo)
PlayM Corporation
82-2-2026-0598/9
www.playmcorp.com
Byeon, Hee Young
16Mbps IrDA Wireless MP3 Player/PMP
Cypublic Co.,Ltd
82-2-707-3203
www.mman.co.kr
Lou Sim
Multi Media AV Player
Aionkorea co.,ltd.
82-2-705-1581
www.aionkorea.com
Nice Lee
PC speakr, optical mouse, Headset, PC camera etc..
Korea@CeBIT 2006
rolain@navisis.com
C02-1
mikykim@3gate.co.kr
3
22
4
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
jun@go1394.co.kr
C50-14
23
au483@daum.net
B06-12
22
bobo09149@hotmail.com
C50-13
23
hjo@icraft21.com
-9
22
youngkim@playmcorp.com
B06-10
22
lousim@separk.com
E22-1
25
lottery@aionkorea.com
E22-2
25
5
KTC : Taejon
1
SEJU ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
(82-42)825-6850
www.safe-drive.com
Charley-Imm
1) Micro Alcohol Sensor for Cell Phone & MP32) Personal Alcohol Detector 3) Personal Smell Tester4) Portable Gas Detector
2
SUNGJIN TECHWIN CO., LTD.
(82-42)271-1177
www.switch-vr.com
JUNG, JAE YOUNG
Bluetooth HandsFree
3
APACK, INC.
(82-42)864-0815
www.apack.net
Joon-il Kim
PC & Server Cooler, Solar Collector
4
Wooksung Electronics, Inc
(82-42)366-1000
www.wooksung.com
Sunny Min
IP Videophone2) Web Videophone3) Business Videophone
5
Korea Network Systems
(82-42)932-0351~2
www.kns-kr.com
Young-Sung Jeon(Director)
Satellite antenna sysytem
6
ID KOREA.Inc
(82-42)636-0038
www.idkorea.co.kr
Bryan Jang
VGA Cards & Power Supplyer for Computer
7
ASB Inc.
(82-42)528-7223
www.asb.co.kr
An Sun Young
Power Amplifier,LNA, PLL, DSR, RFD& RFID SYSTEM, USN, Converter, Extender
8
Honest Technology Co., Ltd.
(82-42)477-0717
www.honestech.com
Seo-Yeon Lee
Digital Video Package Software
9
Korea Power Cell Inc.
(82-42)864-0255
www.powercellkorea.com Matthew Kwak
Lithium ion rechargeablebattery
10
COMIZOA Co., Ltd.
(82-42)936-6500
www.comizoa.com
Young-sam Oh
Data Acquisition Board & Motion Controller
sales@sejumicron.com
B12-7
22
sjic11@kornet.net
B12-12
22
joonil.kim@apack.net
B12-13
22
sunny@wooksung.com 1)
B12-15
22
jysos@kns-kr.com
B12-16
22
trader@idkorea.co.kr
B12-6
22
syan@asb.co.kr
B12-8
22
sylee@honestech.co.kr
B12-11
22
justin@powercellkorea.com
B12-10
22
oys@comizoa.com
B12-14
22
KTC : Kyungki (Kyungki)
1
DAVOLINK Inc.
82-31-387-3240
www.davolink.co.kr
S.H.KANG
VoIP Analogue/Digital Gateways,IP Phones, Integrated Access Device(IAD)
2
Maycom Co.,Ltd.
82-31-470-7700
www.emaycom.com
Richard Kim
PMP, MP3 Player, etc.
3
NComputing Co.,Ltd
82-31-422-5157
www.ncomputing.com
Herry Yoon
Network Computing Device
4
UM Digital Inc.
82-31-764-4181
www.umdigital.com
K.H.LEE
Multi Screen Computer
5
ENOX, Inc.
82-31-382-5060
www.enox.co.kr
Robert Im
PMP, MP3 Player, etc.
6
EC WORLD CORPORATION
82-31-948-2450
www.inkman.co.kr
Brian Suh
Printer refill ink kits, ink cartridge, Toner cartridge, Auto ink refilling machine
7
GEOLINK CO., Ltd.
82-31-387-2380
www.geolink.co.kr
Lee, Hong Sun
Headset Telephone, Telephone Amplifier, Selection Switch, USB Digitel Sound Adaptor, Computer Headset, Telephone Headset
8
PREWELL CORPORATION
(82-31) 420-8330
www.prewell.com
tae-kwon Kim
RFIC Power Amplifier & Fiber Optic Transceiver
9
Sprite Electronics Inc
(82-31) 458-0168
www.sprite.co.kr
Min-Seok Ko
Wireless Hometheater System
10
Zephyr Co., LTd.
82-31-426-1111
http://zephyrco.en.ec21.com Ryu, Hojung
Digital Door Lock
shkang@davolink.co.kr
F21-18
25
richardkim@emaycom.com
F21-12
25
herry@ncomputing
F21-15
25
um@umdigital.com
F21-11
25
im@enox.biz
F21-13
25
info@inkman.co.kr
F21-9
25
geolink@chol.com
F21-16
25
tkkim@prewell.com
F21-10
25
sale@sprite.co.kr
F21-14
25
7777@zephyr.co.kr
F21-17
25
KTC : Incheon
1
Multi Channel Labs Co., Ltd.
82-32-621-4011
High-end MP3P, DMB, PMP, DivX Player
2
PARASYS Co., Ltd.
82-32-432-0346
Multimedia Web Contents Authoring ToolFlying PopCorn5
3
Dinss Co., Ltd.
82-32-516-6018
Car BlackBox, DVR
4
NAMJOOTECH
82-32-623-6400
LCD/PDP TV, Infrared Touch Screen
5
Chois Technology
82-32-246-3409
X-Pointer, X-Remocon
6
Investclub Inc.
82-32-623-5555
MART BIZNET(e-Trade Solution)
7
STB
82-32-876-1436
Mobile Saver
8
YUHANHITEC CO., LTD.
82-32-819-3233~6
Computer Case
9
SB Telcom
82-32-864-8883
GPS Navigation, Back Warning System, Handheld TV, Wireless Headset
10
NEO-VISION. Co., Ltd.
82-32-584-2708
Computer Case, Power Supply,Computer Peripheral
11
Pavonine Inc.
82-32-765-3030
3D LCD Monitor(DiMEN)
12
DNMEDIA
82-32-867-1301
Video communication and Collaboration solutions/e-Learning solutions
13
NEXIO Co., Ltd.
82-32-556-9545
TFT LCD Touch Monitor&Touch Screen
14
MPDevice Co., Ltd.
82-32-822-3290
RF Coaxial Connector/RF Cable Assembly/Termination/GPS Antenna
15
HANHO ELECTRONICS
82-32-514-0811
Bone Conduction Headset/Mobile Microphone/Headset
32(*)
33(*)
34(n)
35(n)
36(n)
37(n)
6
7
8
9
10
1
2
3
4
5
KTC : Kyungki (Suwon)
1
PenZ Co., Ltd.
(82-31) 231-8808
Digital Pen, Pen Mouse
2
S-CAM Co., Ltd.
(82-31) 233-4664
MP3 Player, Digital audio Player
3
Elentec Co., Ltd.
(82-2) 2163-0745
PMP (Portable multimedia player)2. Navigation (+GPS)3. DivX player
4
IOCELL Corporation
(82-31)233-9419
USB Flash Drives
5
DUALi INC
(82-31) 213-0074
Smart Card ReadersRFID DevicesRF Modulee-Payment Terminal
www.i-penz.com
www.sorell.co.kr
Antony Oh
SEOK HUN, LEE
www.elentec.co.kr,
Ju-Yeon Park
°°www.iocell.com
°°Hyuck-joo Lee
www.duali.co.kr
KIM, Hancheol
antony@i-penz.com
C02-8
seok@scam.co.kr
C02-4
jypark@iubi.co.kr,
C02-6
°°hjlee@iocell.co.kr
C02-9
kimhch@duali.com
C02-5
6
22
7
22
8
22
9
22
10
22
11
KTC : Kyungki (Sungnam)
1
NEOWINE Inc.
Copy Protection IC, Semicondector
2
NOVATRON CO.,LTD.
HDD type Multimedia Player
5 0 _ March 2006 KOREA IT TIMES
(82-31) 789-7875
www.neowine.co.kr
Min-Tae Kim
(82-31)716-6923
www.iamm.co.kr
Hak J. Kim
kmtic@neowine.co.kr
F19-5
hjkim@novatron.co.kr
F21-1
12
25
13
25
www.xclef.com
Seong-Joo Kim
www.parasys.net
Won Kyo Chung
www.dinss.net
Jong Seob Jin
www.namjootech.co.kr
Nam Joo Hwang
www.choistec.com
Young-Min Shin
www.investclub.co.kr
Sung Mo Lee
www.stbchip.co.kr
Jin Young Lee
www.yuhanhitec.com
Jae Mo Seo
www.sbtelcom.com
Hyung Keon Kim
www.neo-vision.co.kr
Jay Lee
www.dimen.co.kr
Kyung Hun Park
www.dnmedia.co.kr
Hyo Jong Han
www.inexio.co.kr
Jung-Hyun Kim
www.mpdevice.com
Sang Keun Lee
www.hanics.com
Hee-Seong Lee
KTC : Daegu-Kyungbuk
Dong Yang Electronics
82-54-482-0871
www.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
Beyond Insight Co., Ltd.
82-53-951-5834~5
www.beyondinsight.co.kr
1. T DMB Set-Top BOX1. ETI T-DMB Monitor,2. T-DMB Receiver
Neosol Co., Ltd.
82-53-587-3600
www.neosoltech.com
PMP
USYS Co., Ltd
82-53-652-9475
www.usys.co.kr
WiBro/WiMAX
HUONE(MTIS Co., Ltd.)
82-53-325-4956
www.mtis.co.kr
2D/3D Graphics Solution for embedded devices:Open VG, OpenGL-ES
FUSIONSOFT co., Ltd
82-53-609-7300
www.fusionsoft.co.kr
PMP
INDTEKCo.,Ltd.
82-54-473-1830~6
www.indtek.co.kr
LCD TV
Digen Co., Ltd.
82-53-661-5500
www.idigen.com
Car TFT LCD AV System,TFT LCD Monitor for Automotive
HYUNWON INC
82-53-743-7200
www.mobiblu.com
MP3 Player
BND Co., Ltd
82-53-325-0701
www.bndnet.com
WAP 2.0 Standard Flexible Mobile Browser
KBiT Co., Ltd.
82-53-382-3803
www.kbit.co.kr
FM transmiterweb cameraDVR
gbtec
82-53-428-2091
www.gbtec.co.kr
U-PAD
2MTECH
82-54-977-2500
www.2mtech.co.kr
DMB Terminal
Yoon, In Jung
bluebird@xclef.com
A58-11
23
paradev@chol.com
C50-9
23
steve@dinss.net
A58-10
23
njhwang1@hanmail.net
C50-8
23
charles@choistec.com
A58-7
23
ctn11@yahoo.com
A58-3
23
webmaster@stbchip.co.kr
A58-12
23
etoile@yuhanhitec.com
C50-10
23
hkkim@sbtelcom.com
A58-6
23
neo@neo-vision.co.kr
A58-4
23
khpark@dimen.co.kr
A58-5
23
vseen@naver.com
A58-2
23
jameskim@inexio.co.kr
A58-8
23
mpd@mpdevice.com
A58-1
23
hees@hanics.com
A58-9
23
sales@xm.co.kr
C50-15
23
otkim@beyondinsight.co.kr
C50-12
23
Song, Ho Cheol
hcsong@neosoltech.com
C50-7
23
Kim, Nam Yeob
kny@usys.co.kr
C50-20
23
Oh, Young Wook
tano@mtis.co.kr
C50-4
23
Lee, Sang Hyuk
hisanghyuk@fusionsoft.co.kr
C50-2
23
Sun Park
sunpark@indtek.co.kr
C50-16/17/18
23
Brian Jang
brian@Idigen.com
C50-3
23
Na, Gwan SikPark ain@hyunwoninc.
C50-11
23
Ryu, Chang Hyoung
bluekid@bndnet.com
C50-5
23
Lee, Gi Hyoung
kaistian@kbit.co.kr
C50-6
23
Lee, Eun Gi
dmsrl01@gbtec.co.kr
C50-21
23
Kwon, Yeung Moon
ymkwon@2mtech.co.kr
C50-19
23
Kim, Ok Tae
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VoIP / VON Spring 2006
LG-Nortel
World’s VoIP Experts Head for San Jose
VON Spring 2006 Conference & Expo in California attracts VOIP experts and buyers
from all over the world
Evaluating the impact
of VoIP on your
business; VON Spring
2006 promises to be an
even greater success.
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.
5 2 _ March 2006 KOREA IT TIMES
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
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.
Canadian-Korean Partnership Making Waves
LG-Nortel Prepares to Capture Global IP Telephony Markets
L
G-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
M3-1 Model
and persistently this year,
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 SSLVPN 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.
To this end, LG-Nortel will seriously improvement in productivity. Mobility in
attempt to meet the needs of the domestic an integrated application carrying such
enterprises market and aggressively attack purpose means that users can carry out and
the large enterprise market in the IP Sec receive services they want at any time at
any place with any equipment.
VPN business sector.
Mobility in an integrated application
As the portion of the
application field to the total helps users not only improve productivity
market is expected to grow, sharply but also serve as a catalyst to let
them approach to those with many IP teleLG-Nortel will introduce
the “multimedia collabora- phony.
Lee also said, “The final direction for
tion” concept, under which
all users can jointly share development should be decided according
integrated messaging, to the needs of customers. In the past,
videoconferencing, and file enterprises selling products led the direction for development. However, the direcdelivery with others.
“In other words, we have tion has been changing to the way that cusa strategy to offer such vari- tomers demand first. LG-Nortel will also
ous functions as data, analyze and set up network in such a way
as to meet the way pursued by customers.
sound, video, conference,
instant messaging, white Through negotiations with customers, we
boarding, file exchange, co- will make a strong push for customer-oriweb browsing, and exis- ented business.”
In the meantime, LG-Nortel started its
tence management with a single piece of
first road show, named the “Power
equipment,” said Lee.
On LG-Nortel’s technology related to Convergence of LG-Nortel 2006,” in
IP telephony, CEO Lee said, “IP telephony Daejeon from Feb. 20 for a 15-day run.
The road show, the first since its official
no longer means only VoIP as it includes
valuable application area which is com- inauguration in November last year as a
joint venture between LG Electronics of
bined with a variety of multimedia.”
Recently, such an
LG-Nortel IP Phone “LIP7024”
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
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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 LGNortel (www.LG-Nortel.com) is about
1,400.
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 LGNortel in the service, technology and solution sectors?
A: LG-Nortel’s communication server 1000M is an all IPPBX 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,
Q: Would you explain LG-Nortel’s
marketing and service strategies at home and abroad? wait during call, conversion to terminating call, conversion to
extension call and conferencing, while providing clean quality
How about its global networks?
A: LG-Nortel was created in a form of joint venture of call.
The 2211 product offers all functions of LG-Nortel telebetween the network business department of LG Electronics
boasting of the world’s top-level technology and manpower to phony with potable IP device, while supporting walkie talkie
develop communication equipment and Nortel, a 100-year-old communication.
LG-Nortel will take the lead in the global communication
global communication equipment maker selling and developmarket as well as in the domestic market by leveraging their
ing top-level communication equipment goods.
The joint venture between the two companies has a great combined technologies and marketing power.
LG-Nortel will become an R&D hub in the information
meaning as it is entire business cooperation between core ability of LG Electronics and that of Nortel, not simple business and communication system sectors as a way to cope with the
fast-changing IT industry environment and take the lead in
cooperation.
I expect that LG Electronics and Nortel will combine their developing next-generation technologies.
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
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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
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
S
amsung 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.
In an interview with the Korea IT
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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Skype / VoIP
VoIP / 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
Q: What is the meaning of the commercialization of Internet phone-related companies recently.
Meanwhile, the British biggest communication company
the Internet phone, the first in the country?
A: I think the existing wire telephones have finished their BT advanced into the Internet phone market directly.
The volume of the Internet phone market
duties demanded by the era. With the rapid
is expected to soar from $2.38 billion in
development of technology and advent of
2005 to $4.1 billion in 2007.
the ubiquitous era, an existence above teleIn the domestic Internet phone market,
phone that can deliver more information
Samsung Networks commercialized the
than existing telephones was needed. The
Internet phone on Aug. 22 in 2005 for the
right answer to the necessity is Internet
first time in Korea. And since then, a total
phone.
of 12 companies, including KT, Hanaro
Samsung Networks, which introduced
Telecom and SK Telink, are staging stiff
the VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) sercompetition.
vice in 2001 for the first time in Korea, has
The total sales in the market are likely to
accumulated technology and know-how.
expand from 197.8 billion won ($204.1
At the same time, it has secured the
million) in 2005 to 370 billion won in 2006,
52.5Gbps optical communication network
808.3 billion own in 2008, and further to
connecting 64 cities in the nation into one
900 billion won ($928.8 million) in 2009.
and high-quality global network infrastrucMeanwhile, ETRI anticipates that the
ture linking about 400 sites in 70 countries.
I think such excellent ability and infra- Chun Hong-kyun, executive director service sales in the Internet phone market
of Samsung Networks
will reach 5.3 trillion won ($5.5 billion) by
structure is the strength to let Samsung
2010 and jobs for 13,000 people will be
Networks, the leader in the next-generation
communication market, keep its No. 1 position in the Internet created in the market.
telephone market.
The following are excerpts from an interview with Chun
Hong-kyun, executive director of Samsung Networks:
Korea’s Premier e-Commerce Community
Skype technologies forms strategic partnership with
Auction, Korea’s premier e-Commerce community
S
Geoffrey Prentice, Skype’s vice president,
Strategic Partners
& Corporate Development.
kype, 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
Q: Would you introduce Samsung Networks?
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
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 click-
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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.
to-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 enter-
prises 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.
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.
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 CoBranding 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.
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On the Scene Report -- iPark Beijing
Smoothing the Way in 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
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
“iPark Beijing plans to continue promoting Korea’s
promising businesses and products to major opinion
leaders through various events.”
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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
iPark Beijing Makes Life Easier for
Korean Businesses Entering China
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
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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.
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Game Industry / KAIA
Amusement Arcade Industry Faces Hurdles
I
KAIA president Chung Young-Soo
Time to activate the
arcade game
industry and make
global inroads!
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t 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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Serving Second Term as
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.
Son Yeon-gi,
In the future, I will
KADO President
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
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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
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
Kim Woo-shik, Deputy Prime
Minister and Minister of Science people and extend financial
and Technology
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.
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
Jun Sang-woo,
universities in the country in
commissioner of Korea
the first half of this year, Jun
Intellectual Property Office
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
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,
Lee Hee-beom,
Industry and Energy in a
Chairman of the Korea
cabinet reshuffle early this
International Trade Association
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.”
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New MOCIE Minister
Outlines Roadmap for
Year Ahead
Shin Bak-jae
Appointed as
Chairman of FORCA
The newly-appointed
Minister of Commerce,
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
Chung Se-kyun,
Minister of Commerce,
national economy, and
Industry and Energy
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, 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
Shin Bak-jae,
of the remaining tenure of his
Chairman of FORCA
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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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
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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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Incredible India
Korean Flocking to India for Healthcare,
Tourism and Buddhist Roots
I
ndia 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 nonUnspoilt 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
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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.
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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.
n 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
O
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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.”
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MIC News
MIC News
M1 Project to Make Korea Global Mobile Leader
MIC and EUCCK Sign an Agreement for IT Cooperation
MIC aims to forge a “100% M-Literacy, 0% M-Virus” environment
W
ith 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,
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 indus-
“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.”
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.
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try 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% MVirus 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.
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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
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 ‘uCity’ 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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Local Government— Busan
Busan Aims to Host
the 17th World Congress on ITS
W
ith 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.
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.”
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
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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-
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.
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
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
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 Esports 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.
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 con-
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stant 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.
KDC’s 3-D LCD mass production line is completed
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 cellu-
lar 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.
$30.8 million).
As the main project of this year, KDC plans to maximize same
business’ synergy effects by making inroads into the multimedia
machinery and tool development and content business of the convergence of broadcasting amd telecom, including 3-D screen
business.
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German Foreign Minister Urges Korea to Invest
On the occasion of the visit to South
Korea of Frank-Walter Steinmeier,
Foreign Minister of Germany, the
Korean-German Chamber of Commerce
and Industry (KGCCI) organized a special breakfast meeting on Monday,
February 20, 2006 in cooperation with
the German Embassy and the
Federation of Korean Industries (FKI).
The Foreign Minister was accompanied by a business delegation comprising representatives of small and medium-sized German enterprises specialized in the technology, energy and environmental sectors.
The welcome address was given by
Mr. Lee, Soo-Young, Chairman of the
Korean-German Chamber and President
of DC Chemical Co., Ltd. Mr. Lee highlighted the how were united by numerous common economic interests and the
intense cooperation between Korea and
Germany, reflected in the two states’
trade volume of 20 billion US$. 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
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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.
“Fiber-To-The-Home” (FTTH) Experts Converge on Shanghai
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 AsiaPacific, 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 condi-
tional 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
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
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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 Core Duo Delivered to Embedded Market
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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Mystical Morocco Embraces ICT
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?
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?
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processing, Chemicals
A: The Digital
and Para-chemicals,
multimedia broadcasting
Textile and Leather,
(DMB) and wireless
Mechanical
and
broadband (WiBro) are
Metallurgical,
two technologies that
Electrical
and
Korea have developed
Electronics.
and commercialized
Regarding the ICTs,
recently. I understand
Morocco has made the
that in the Republic of
choice of treating this
Korea there are high
sector as a national
expectations that theses
priority. It hopes to
next
generation
develop it so as to
communications and
emerge as one hub
broadcasting will create
linking Europe, Africa
a huge market, serving
and the Middle-East
as a new growth engine.
Ahmed BOURZAIM, Ambassador of
region.
In Morocco we are
the Kingdom of Morocco
From 1988 to 2002,
still to witness this
the growth rate in the
positive evolution. But a
lot of progress has been achieved in ICT Moroccan cellular market has exceeded
242 %, making the cellular market in
technologies in general.
Concerning the adaptability of this Morocco one of the fastest growing, not
technology to the ICT sector in Morocco, I only in Africa and the Arab world, but also
think it is more a matter of investment in in the world at large.
The number of cellular telephone
additional infrastructures that can serve as
a support for theses new technologies. On subscribers soared from 42,924
the other hand, Morocco can certainly subscribers in 1997, to 3.3 million by the
profit from the Korean ICT advanced end of January 2001, and to 10 million in
experience and I hope that in the near 2004.
The arrival of cyber-caf?s resulted in an
future the two countries will engage in a
fruitful co-operation in the field of these explosion of the Internet in Morocco and
the total number of cyber caf?s listed
new technologies.
during the period from 1999 to 2001
Q: How high is the IT development registered a growth rate of 500 percent,
while the number of Internet users has
level in Morocco at the moment?
A: Reforms undertaken over the last reached 4 million in 2004. Many experts
decade have helped the Moroccan believe that Morocco is by far one of
economy to adjust to the new global Africa’s most advanced countries in terms
realities, emerging as one of the most of the Internet.
Moreover, the call centers market is
vibrant economies in the Middle East and
fast growing in Morocco with a turnover
Africa. Presently, the Moroccan economy
possesses great potentials and comparative which rose from 5.7 million US$ in 1999
and competitive advantages, for export and to 57 million US$ in 2002, 90 % export
investment, in sectors such as Food related.
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.
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 EMorocco strategy together with the state of
the art Techno Park, giving the ecommerce all the chances to prosper, and
providing a basis for training IT
professionals.
Q: Please tell us a bit more about
Morocco’s IT policy?
Q: In which areas would Morocco
like to cooperate with Korea in terms
of IT collaboration?
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
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
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 diffi-
culties 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
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.
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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.
Celebrating Last 20 Years, Igniting Next 20!
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
market at the moment.
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News Briefs
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, INNODESIGN 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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A rare Opportunity to Appreciate
Kazakh Traditional Art
On the occasion of the country’s 58th
Anniversary of Independence Day, Sri
Lankan Amb. G. Wijayasiri revealed the
nation’s multi-religious society to the
invited guests and his friends with priority given to Buddhism in a reception to
commemorate its National Day, held on
Feb. 4, 2006 in his Seonbuk-dong residence, Seoul Simultaneously he bade
farewell to his friends in Korea before
his departure. During his speech, he
expressed his special thanks to the government of Korea for donating generous
support to the victims of his country’s
Tsunami. At the Sri Lanka Embassy
function, a small group of invited guests
related to the trade and travel with the
country were present, including The
Korea Importers Association (KOIMA)
To provide Korean friends with a rare
opportunity to see Kazakh traditional art,
the Embassy of Kazakhstan and Lotte Art
Gallery held a Fantasy exhibition of
Tapestry by Kazakh artist Leila AkhmetOsman. With this exhibition as an impetus, the Embassy looks more other opportunities to share Kazakh culture with the
Ahead of the official visit to Korea
country’s of President Abdul Kalam last
month, the Embassy of India observed
the nation’s Republic Day at the
Ambassador’s Itaewon residence, Seoul
while India-related business representatives were present in large numbers,
including Tata Daewoo, Indian
Overseas Bank, Air India, Chakraa
Indian restaurant and others, plus various members of the Seoul Diplomatic
Corps. Indian Amb. N. Parhasaathi
stressed the importance of the president’s official visit to Korea, referring
to the fact that India has a sizeable market share of IT and IT enabled services
globally.
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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
8-11
ISS US 2005
9-13
11-13
Mac World
Conference & Expo
GITEX
15-18
PTC 2006
18-20
Inter Nepcon Japan
18-20
Electro Test Japan
18-20
ICP
18-20
18-20
18-20
23-25
ELE Trade
PWB Expo
FOE
Electronic India
25-27
26-27
FC Expo
EDS Fair
6-7
Las Vegas
(USA)
California
(USA)
San Francisco
(USA)
Hyderabad
(India)
Honolulu
(USA)
Tokyo Big Sight
(Japan)
Tokyo Big Sight
(Japan)
Tokyo Big Sight
(Japan)
Tokyo Big Sight
Tokyo Big Sight
Tokyo Big Sight
New Delhi
(India)
Tokyo Big Sight
Pacific Yokohama
(Japan)
AV. Communication
Digital
Semiconductors, devices,
equipment materials
Computer-related
CEMA
(www.cesweb.org)
SEMI
(www.semi.org)
www.macworld.expo.com
Computer & Information
Handling-related
Communications
(including wire & wireless)
Electronics parts SMT
www.gitexhyderabad.com
10-11
www.ptc.org
12-14
14-16
14-17
21-23
SMT, Test, Exam. Measuring
equipment
Semiconductors packaging
SMT
Electronics parts
PCB
Optical Communication Tech.
Electronic parts, materials
Fuel cell
Electronics design
Association
Lead Exhibition Japan
4-8
5-10
Technical Show
Yokohama
ISSCC
6-9
IPC Print Circuit Expo,
APEX
Designcon
6-9
Voicecon (Spring)
8-10
SEMICON Korea
9-11
BES EXPO
12-14
ISS Europe
13-16
13-16
3GSM World
Congress
Domotechnical
15
IPTV Workshop 2006
15-17
16-17
SMT/PCB/
Nepcon Korea
e-Service
Philippines
Automatic Recognition
19-24
Micro lithography
21-23
Nano Tech
16-17
22-23
FMC Forum
26-Mar. 1 PMA
28-Mar. 3 GFPC
6-10
7-9
9-15
Imbedded Systems
Conference
DATE
(Germany)
FOSE
CeBIT
Embedded Systems
Conference
Int’l Home &
ITEX
von 2006
Electronics China
Shanghai
(China)
Munich
IC Technology
www.esconline.com
Design and Automation
www.date-conference.com
Washington (USA)
Hanover
(Germany)
Shenzhen (China)
IT-related
Info-communication tech.,
digital
IT technology
www.fose.com
German Industrial Expo
Japan Representatives
www.esconline.com
Chicago (USA)
Las Vegas (USA)
San Jose (USA)
Shanghai (China)
Home electronics appliances www.housewares.org
Image Technology
www.itexshow.com
Communication, Internet, Solution www.von.com
Electronics parts, manufacturing www.global-electronics.net
devices, optical technology
Semiconductors equipment, materials SEMI(semi.org)
Cable TV-related
www.CCBN.cn
Lead Exhibition Japan
Lead Exhibition Japan
Lead Exhibition Japan
Lead Exhibition Japan
Lead Exhibition Japan
www.global-electronics.net
Lead Exhibition Japan
Japan Electronics Show
February
1-3
10-11
March
21-23
21-23
Shanghai (China)
Beijing (China)
23
SEMICON China
Broadcast, Cable&
Satellite network
KM & DEMS
23-26
PIE
Tokyo Big Sight
(Japan)
Santa Clara (USA)
Shanghai (China)
Frankfurt (Germany)
26-31
PCB Design
28-30
FPD China
29-Apr. 1 musikmesse
Seoul (Korea)
KM, EDMS
Korea Conference
Camera, video products
Electronics Times,
KM/EDMS Association
Japan Camera Video Ind.
Asso. (www.pie2005.jp)
PCB design Conference West www.pcbwest.com
Flat Panel Display
SEMI(www.semi.org)
Musical Instruments, S/W, H/W Musikmesse Frankfurt
www.messefrankfurt.com
April
Pacific Yokohama
(Japan)
San Francisco
(USA)
Anaheim
(USA)
Santa Clara
(USA)
Orlando
(USA)
Seoul
(Korea)
New Delhi
(India)
Amsterdam
(Netherlands)
Barcelona
(Spain)
Koeln
(Germany)
Seoul
(Korea)
Seoul
Manila
(Philippines)
Osaka
(Japan)
San Jose
(USA)
Tokyo Big Sight
(Japan)
Tokyo Sankei Plaza
Orlando
(USA)
Okinawa
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Industrial technologies
Ganagawa Prefecture
Industrial Trade Promotion Association
Semiconductors Int’l Conference www.isscc.org/isscc
PCB, Electronics manufacturing www.goipchshows.org
Semiconductors design
www.designcon.com
Voice network, IP network
www.bcr.com/voicecon
Semiconductors equipment,
materials
Broadcasting Tech.
SEMI(www.semi.org)
Semiconductors devices,
equipment, materials
GSM- 3rd Generation
(3G) mobile phone
Home electronics appliances
and parts
IPTV
PCB-related
IT service, software
BESI(www.besindia.com)
SEMI(www.semi.org)
www.3gsmworldcongress
.com
www.domotechnica.com
Electronics Times
Electronics Times
www.e-servicephils.com
Bar code, RFID, etc.
Japan Automatic
Recognition System Association
Optical equipment
www.spie.org/coonferences
Nano Technologies
FMC-related forum
Photo & Video Tech
Nano Tech Executive
Committee
E.J. Krause & Asso.
www.pmai.org
FPD-related International meeting SEMI Japan
(www.semi.org/gfpc)
3-6
3-7
3-7
4-6
4-7
8-9
9-11
17-20
Linux World
Boston (USA)
Milla
Cannes (France)
MiPTV
Cannes (France)
Semicon Europe
Munich (Germany)
Nepcon China
Shanghai (China)
Imbedded Systems
Beijing (China)
NTCA National Show Atlanta (USA)
TAITRONICS
Taipei (Taiwan)
Computer-related
www.linuxworldxo.com
Digital contents, bi-directional technology (www.milia.com)
TV industry and digital contents www.miptv.com
Semiconductors equipment, materials (SEMI)
Electronics manufacturing
www.nepconchina.com
IC technology Conference
www.esconline.com
Cable TV-related
www.thenationalshow.com
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
Embedded technology Osaka (Japan)
IC technology
West
10-12
E3 EXPO
Los Angeles (USA)
Entertainment-related
10-13
EXPO COMM
Seoul (Korea)
Communication & Mobile tech
17-19
Business Show Tokyo Big Sight
IT overall
18-20
e-messe
Ishigawa
Info communication, IT
kanazawa
(Japan)
Association
23-25
WinHEC
Seattle (USA)
Window-related H/W tech
25
BPM Solution
Seoul
BPM solution
Korea Conference
(Korea)
Korea S/W Association
24-26
Legend Industrial Show Osaka (Japan)
Legend materials
31-June 2 JPCA Show
Kokyo Big Sight (Japan) IC, SMT
31-June 2 LINUX World EXPO Kokyo Big Sight (Japan) Linux-related
1-5
2-4
9-11
9-11
WCIT
CTST
Nepcon
CeBIT
Austin (USA)
Las Vegas (USA)
Birmingham (UK)
Australia Sidney
(Australia)
IT
Card, security
Electronics industry
Info communication technology
Representatives
www.wcit2006.org
www.ctst.com
www.nepcon.co.uk
German Ind. Expo Japan
SEMI(www.semi.org)
www.microsoft.com/whdc/winhec
Electronics Times,
Japan Legend Ind. Assoc.
Japan IC Association
IDG Japan
June
3-9
4-8
4-9
5-9
6-7
6-8
6-10
7-9
7-10
14-16
14-16
14-17
19-23
21-24
21-24
21-23
21-23
28-30
28-30
28-30
28-30
28-30
28-30
INFOCOMM
Global Com
SID
Interop Tokyo
Orlando (USA)
Display tech, video, audio
Chicago (USA)
Communication technology
San Francisco (USA) Display tech.
Chiba Makuhari Messe Networking-related
(Japan)
ISS Japan
Osaka (Japan)
Semiconductors, devices
Movie TV Technology
Tokyo (Japan)
Movie and TV tech
Comdex Taipei
Taipei (Taiwan)
Computer
ISW
Tokyo (Japan)
Data memory devices
Video Sensing
Pacific Yokohama (Japan)
FPD Taiwan
Taipei (Taiwan)
FPD
Cable TV
Tokyo Big Sight
CATV tech
Opt Taiwan
Taipei (Taiwan)
Optical tech
COMMUNICA SIA
Singapore
Info comm. IT
SEK 2006
Seoul COEX (Korea) Electronics, Info-com
IT Technomart
COEX (Korea)
Electronics, IT
Mechanical Elements Tokyo Big Sight
Mechanical elements, materials
Technology Show
(Japan)
Japan
Industrial Virtual
Tokyo Big Sight
Video display
Reality Show
Japan
SODEC
Tokyo Big Sight
S/W development environment
ESEC
Tokyo Big Sight
Assembly system development
DW&CRMPO
Tokyo Big Sight
Data warehouse
DSE
Tokyo Big Sight
Data storage tech
Info Security EXPO
Tokyo Big Sight
Security-related
RFID Solution EXPO
Tokyo Big Sight
RFID
ICIA (www.icia.org)
www.globalcomm2006.com
www.sid.org
SEMI Japan
SEMI Japan
Japan Movie TV Tech Asso.
www.taipeitradeshows.com.tw
Int’l Disc Drive Assoc.
Video handling tech.
SEMI(www.semi.org)
Japan Cable TV Assoc.
www.pida.org.tw
www.communicasia.com
Electronics Times
Electronics Times
Lead Exhibition
6-8
6-8
6-8
6-9
7-10
10-14
12-14
ISOT
OFMEX
Digital Publishing Fair
Tokyo Int’l Book Fair
SINOCES
SEMICON West
Inter Opt
13-16
19-21
24-28
26-27
Imaging Expo
Wireless Japan
DAC
Imbedded Systems
Conference
30-Aug. 3 SIGGRAPH
19-20
23-25
22-26
1-6
IFA
Berlin (Germany)
6-8
7-12
13-15
IC China
IBC
Automatic Recognition
Exhibition
CEDIA
CeBIT Asia
IT EXPO
Busan 2006
OEM New England
Kwangju Info-Com
Exhibition 2006
A/V Fair
Tsuzohu (China)
Semiconductors
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Tokyo Big Sight
Bar code, RFID, etc.
Recognition Systems Assoc.
Denver (USA)
Home theater, home networking www.cedia.net/expo
Shanghai (China)
Info-com. Tech
German Ind. Expo
Busan BEXCO (Korea) IT-related
Electronics Times &
Busan city
(USA)
Instruments, parts, materials
www.devicelink.com/expo
Kwangju
Info-com.
Kwangju Info Com
(Korea)
Promotion Assoc.
Pacific Yokohama
Audio visual
Japan Audio Assoc.
(Japan)
Chiba Makuhari Messe (Japan) Game entertainment
CESA
Boston (USA)
IC technology
www.esconline.com
13-17
17-20
14-17
20-21
21-23
21-24
22-24
25-28
3-7
9-13
11-13
11-13
11-15
13-16
13-16
Lead Exhbn. Japan
Lead Exhbn. Japan
Lead Exhbn. Japan
Lead Exhbn. Japan
Lead Exhbn. Japan
Lead Exhbn. Japan
25-26
Stationery, office articles
Lead Exhbn. Japan
Copy machine, Fax, etc.
Lead Exhbn. Japan
Contents-related
Lead Exhbn. Japan
Publication business
Lead Exhbn. Japan
AV, communication, digital
www.sinoces.com
Semiconductors devices, materials (www.semi.org)
Optical Ind. Promotion Assoc.
Optical parts and materials
Tokyo Game Show
Embedded Systems
Conference
AV. Info-com.
Messe Berlin Japan
Representatives
www.ic-china.org
Broadcasting instruments
Japan Automatic
October
24-28
CEATEC Japan
Chiba Makuhari Messe Electronics, computer
Japan Elect. Show Assoc.
(Japan)
MIPCOM
Cannes (France)
TV. Audio visual contents
www.mipcom.com
Kansai Design
Intex Osaka (Japan) Info leakage, CAD/CAM
Lead Exhibn Japan
Manufacturing Solution Exhibition
Kansai Mechanical Intex Osaka (Japan)
Machines, materials, etc.
Lead Exhibn. Japan
Elements
Technology Exhibition
TAITRONICS
Taipei (Taiwan)
Electronics, Info-related
www.taipeitradeshows.com.tw
Electronic Asia
Hong Kong (China)
High-tech-related
www.electronicasia.com
Hong Kong
Hong Kong (China)
Electronics overall
www.hkelectronicsfair.com
Electronics Fair
Orgatec
Cologne(Germany)
Office articles & furniture
Koeln Expo Japan
Representatives
www.orgatec.com
UCS 2006
Seoul COEX (Korea) Ubiquitous academic meeting Electronics Times
November
5-8
7-9
13-15
15-17
Tokyo Big Sight
Tokyo Big Sight
Tokyo Big Sight
Tokyo Big Sight
Qingdao (China)
San Francisco (USA)
Chiba Makuhari Messe
(Japan)
Shanghai (China)
Tokyo Big Sight(Japan)
San Francisco (USA)
Taipei (Taiwan)
Photo, image, printing
Wireless tech
EDA-related
IC technology
www.imaging-expo.com
E.J. Krause & Associates
www.dac.com
www.esconline.com
Boston (USA)
CG technology
www.siggraph.org
6-8
San Francisco (USA)
Rinux-related
www.lynuxworldexpo.com
6-8
12-15
Tokyo Big Sight
Seoul COEX (Korea)
Beijing (China)
Radio ham-related
PDP, LCD, OLED
TV, broadcasting
Japan Ham Fed.
Electronics Times
www.birtv.com
August
Linux World
Conference and EXPO
Ham Fair
IMID 2006
BIRTV
September
Lead Exhibition
July
14-17
May
Japan System House
Association Secretariat
www.e3expo.com
www.expocomm.com
Business Show Secretariat
Ishigawa Info System
15-17
28-29
ITPC (Int’l Trade
Partners Conference
Micro-machine Exhibition
OLEDs World Summit
Imbedded Technology
2006
Inter BEE
Hawaii (USA)
Semiconductors
Tokyo (Japan)
Industries overall
San Diego (USA)
OLED-related
Pacific Yokohama
IC technology
(Japan)
Chiba Makuhari Messe (Japan)
U-Infra
Integration Conference
Seoul COEX (Korea)
Agency, ETRI
Ubiquitous infrastructures
SEMI(www.semi.org)
Messe Frankfurt Japan
Japan System House Assoc.
Broadcasting tech
Japan Elect. Show Assoc.
National Computerization
December
4-8
4-8
6-8
ITU Telecom World
3G World Congress
Business Show Osaka
Hong Kong (China)
Hong Kong (China)
Intex Osaka (Japan)
Info-communication overall
3G wireless technology
IT overall
6-8
International Video Aids
Exhibition
SEMICON Japan
Pacific Yokohama
(Japan)
Chiba Makuhari Messe
(Japan)
Osaka (Japan)
Pacific Yohohama
(Japan)
Pacific Yokohama
(Japan)
Video tech.
13-15
Gauge 2006
APMC (Asia Pacific
Microwave Conference)
Microwave Exhibition
www.itu.int/world2006
www.3gcongress.com
Business Show Osaka
Secretariat
Comm. Co.
Semiconductors manufacturing SEMI Japan
equipment, materials
Gauge overall
Japan Gauge Assoc.
Microwave-related
Microwave Exhbn.
Secretariat
Microwave technology
Microwave Exhbn.
Secretariat
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Jobseekers & Openings
GLORIAD
How to Be Ready for Phone Interviews
Jobs for Foreigners
COMPANY
ANS Korea
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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
POSITION
WORK SITE
Marketing executive in Manila Phillipines
Manila Phillipines
CONTACT
PHONE No.
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
COTECNA INSPECTION, PHILS., INC
Accountant
Seoul
Josie Unarce
632-638-0240
Damith Nakandala
Teacher of English
Damith Nakandala
949-1567-6594
822-3663-1001
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
Jeenie Yoo
822-6082-0826
Seoul
Jobs for Koreans
EMPLOYER
Consumer product company
POSITION
PR Manager
Automobile parts company
Sales manager for seal products
Cable TV company
Marketing manager
SEARCH FIRM
PHONE No.
Sodium Search inc.
02-567-4104
Core Search inc.
02-761-6123
People consulting group
02-2016-6600
02-2016-6600
Conglomerate
M&A specialist
People consulting group
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
100% foreign owned Automotive company
Manufacturing Engineer
JM Search
02-785-2810
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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