Futurize Korea

One example is a long-distance healthcare system called "Touch Doctor" introduced by IT firm LG CNS on Wednesday. Using home devices, patients can measure their own blood pressure, blood sugar, electrocardiogram and fat mass and connect the devices to Touch Doctor, a computer monitor-like device, which will transmit the information to a professional nurse at a healthcare center via the Internet.

Here's a video from LG CNS' recent event to unveil the Touch Dr. service:



Korea IT Times also has an article this month that covers a similar system from Mobicomm:

And the only way to meet this demand is to pursue what Mobicomm is presenting to the u-healthcare centers: Hygeian Ultimate Service. By promoting a realtime monitoring service for 24 hours every day, patients who are insecure or who are questioning their physiological status are allowed to go through a series of simple steps in their own houses to send their electrocardiograms to the uhealthcare center.

Korea hosted the e-Learning Korea Expo at the COEX convention center last week with a conference and exhibition:

This year's expo will feature a so-called "ubiquitous classroom," where people can see what the future holds for schools in the form of digital textbooks and other interactive devices, the ministry said in a media release.

Portable multimedia players, head mounted displays, smart education robots and various "edutainment" contents will be also shown at the expo, according to the ministry. Edutainment, a portmanteau word, means a form of entertainment designed to educate as well as to amuse.

The Korean government reported that the number of broadband Internet connections in Korea reached almost 95% of all households:

As of the end of July, 15.1 million households were registered with high-speed Internet services, marking an increase of 620,000 from the previous year, according to the report released by Korea Communications Commission, the country’s telecommunications regulator.

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