Korea Post is in the final stages of implementing a radio frequency identification (RFID) system developed at Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) to track packages in their system:

ETRI was hired by the Korea Post, the country’s mail service monopoly, to develop RFID technologies for postal services. By the end of the year, Korea Post plans to license a company to install the RFID tags and readers at the country’s 25 mail centers nationwide, a process that is expected to be completed around August next year.

This would make Korea only the second country in the world, behind Denmark, to adopt RFID technology for real postal work.

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