Daniel Shin's List: B/D Shin, Daniel: Korea 2020

• Some South Koreans can get up to 20 megabits of data per second -- breakneck speed by today's standards. Americans are lucky if they get 4 Mbps
• • This show how incredible is Korean technology are.
• About 76 percent of households have broadband in South Korea. The figure is 30 percent in the United States.
• Some 75 percent of South Koreans have a mobile phone, compared with 60 percent of Americans. And South Koreans generally do more and cooler things with their phones
• • The phone technology on Korea compare on America
• South Korea also has a culture where people are crazy about playing online games and don't go home after work. Instead, they go to dinner, to karaoke or to a bar -- all the while using their mobile phones.
• • Technology is all the time with you in South Korea

• Future is now in South Korea 

  As Silicon Valley's biggest corporations complain about the relative backward state of broadband in this country, they are rushing to South Korea to see if their products pass muster with some of the world's most demanding technology customers.
• • The world technology is on South Korea for the future.

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• That comprises railroads including the bullet train and defunct street cars, subways, automobile and highways, ships including ferries, and airlines both domestic and international.
• • Kinds of transportation in South Korea
    
• After the Korean War, especially after the 1960s, South Korea began to develop an extensive networks of railways, highways, bus routes, ferry services, and air routes that criss-cross South Korea. Today South Korea's transportation system is modern, effective, and affordable for most South Koreans.
• • The improve of technology in South Korea after the Korean war, and present.
• The first railroad linking Seoul and Inch'on opened September 1899.
• The high-speed railway known as Korea Train Express (KTX) currently operates between Seoul and Busan or Mokpo.
• Seoul's subway system is the oldest system in the country, with the Seoul Station-Cheongnyangni section of Line 1 opening in 1974. In 2007, eight lines extend 178 miles with 263 substations, transporting 5.6 million passengers a day. Line 9 in Seoul is in building phase 3.
• hey have been classified as Gosok bus ("high speed" express bus) or Shioe bus (pronounced "shee-way": literally, "suburban" intercity bus) with Gosok buses operating over the longer distances and making the fewest (if any) stops en route. Shioe buses typically operate over shorter distances, cover the route slower, and make more stops.
• The two airlines combined offered 1,700 flights a week internationally in 2004, maintaining a combined fleet of over 180 passenger and cargo aircraft. By the beginning of 2004, they served 95 cities, ranking fifth in the world for total cargo carried and twelfth in the world to total number of passengers. Domestically, Korean Air and Asiana serve 14 cities, transporting 21.3 million passengers in 2003

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