Past coverage of Korean Tech in WIRED
2007/09/20 12:11While researching some topics to cover in this blog, I did a quick search for past coverage of Korean tech in WIRED Magazine.
The Bandwidth Capital of the World (August 2002)
Despite this utopian vision of e-domesticity, the real allure of high-rise broadband is escape from the constraints of real estate. Escape into the wide horizons of a computer game, or into the welcoming company of other micro-apartment dwellers — preferably at the same time
Seoul of a New Machine (September 2003)
Widespread broadband access in South Korea - and the consequent high-bandwidth applications - means that the Internet has become an accepted mode of social interaction: a true "information superhighway," as politicians used to love to say.
Seoul Machine (May 2005)
As a vertically integrated, globally networked manufacturer, Samsung can produce all these gadgets at low cost and blistering speed. At the same time, it makes money selling components to its competitors. Either way, Samsung wins.
Sky Dayton Gets Mobile (March 2006)
Which is more or less the point of Dayton's latest startup, Helio. A joint venture of EarthLink and SK Telecom, Korea's leading wireless carrier, Helio aims to bring the latest in mobile phones and services to people like Dayton - would-be early adopters who are itching for something to adopt.
