The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) released results from a survey looking in Internet usage among Koreans:

The report was based on a survey of 17,000 households nationwide between June and July. The study also revealed that Koreans are increasingly considering the Internet as the most reliable source of information.

About 52.5 percent of respondents said they check the Internet first when needing to know something, and more than 23 percent said they have paid for accessing Web content before.

About 63 percent said they access the content of traditional media outlets like television, newspapers, and radio through the Web.
More than 82.5 percent owned an e-mail account and nearly 50 percent were members of Web communities.

KCC's National Internet Development Agency has posted a PDF (Korean) containing a summary of the survey.

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