The Telegraph newspaper visited Korea earlier this year to see how ubiquitous technology is being used in Korean apartments:

Key to this futuristic style of life is the "super internet", and the networking of appliances in the home and even on the street. Houses and offices are built with a synergy of construction and technology, and home-help robots are not uncommon. Convergence - where single gadgets carry out multiple tasks - is the foundation on which South Korea's high-tech homes are built.