Andre Yoskowitz
30 Nov 2009 13:32
South Korea, the latest nation to begin offering the Apple iPhone, has seen about 60,000 units sold on launch day, a far cry from the 1 million sold in the US for the iPhone 3GS but a large bump from the estimated 5000 sold in the first week in China.
The phone is available through carrier KT Corp, and Korea has one of the largest mobile phone subscriber bases in Asia.
"We're hoping that this iPhone will be a trigger point for the smartphone market in Korea," says Yang Hyun-mi, KT's chief strategy officer. Hyun-mi also offered that smartphones only control 1 percent of the mobile market in the nation.
Korean-based Samsung and LG dominate the market but have stayed away from smartphones due to government regulations.