While the jury may be undecided on whether WiBro – which promises go-anywhere high-speed access to the Internet – will pay off, Korea’s number one operator KT is bullish on…

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LG Electronics has signed a deal with Google to preinstall Google apps on at least 10 new handsets that will ship throughout North America, Europe and Asia starting in the…

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A new report from Ovum, an independent technology consultancy headquartered in the U.K., says mobile gaming is gaining some serious traction in Korea. The average number of monthly game downloads…

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TU Media, among the two main mobile TV services providers in Korea, has received about $74.7 million in funding to bolster its still nascent service and possibly expand overseas. The…

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BetaNews has a good article outlining some of the competition to broadcast mobile TV, focusing on a new start-up in Seoul called Ubicode, which has won a contract with handset…

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Telecoms Korea has a story titled “Spain To Adopt Korean Mobile TV Standard”, but it’s behind a subscription wall so I can’t get to the details of the story. The…

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SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) has reported lower profits due to increased marketing expenses and lower operating margins, reports Bloomberg. Net income fell by 38 percent to 279.3 billion won ($297…

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Telecoms Korea is reporting that Helio has started signing up customers in Korea...it’s behind a subscription wall so that’s all the information we have. Obviously, one of the company’s parents—SK…

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HBO is doing what it hasn’t done in U.S. yet, at least to this extent: it has tied up with SK Telecom for a mobile VOD venture, and is offering…

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TU Media’s S-DMB mobile TV service in Sth Korea crept past the 1 million mark on the day before Christmas. However, the company had targeted 1.2 million for the year……

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SK Telecom is reportedly keen to increase its stake in S-DMB broadcaster TU Media. SK Telecom currently has a 29.6 percent share of TU Media, and is legally allowed to…

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TU Media has signed a deal with the BBC to put content on its S-DMB service. “BBC shows including Asia Business Report, World Business Report, Talking Movies and Click will…

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South Korea will introduce legislation to try and curb the use of mobile phones amongst teenagers—or at least, reduce their bills by recommending they join plans with a ceiling. “The…

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The South Korean government is predicting the country will have 21 million users of mobile TV by 2012, mostly on T-DMB followed by “a slowly growing base of satellite DMB…

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TU Media’s S-DMB service in Sth Korea has signed up 950,000 paying customers who watch an average of 62 minutes per day, according to President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO)…

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So says this story in Yonhap...a year after the much hyped launch of the T-DMB-based mobile TV service in Korea, the brouhaha is giving way to mounting pessimism as the…

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Disney Media Networks Co-Chairman Anne Sweeney has described the ability to watch television on mobile devices as a “critical” area of growth. She expects mobile broadcast TV to be launched…

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BusinessWeek has a look at South Korea to find out what is coming in the mobile market, and how the “thumb generation” will use their handsets. We (or at least…

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Indian telco Bharti Airtel has launched an “instant mobile music” program in partnership with SKC&C, South Korea’s second largest business group. It’s basically a music recognition service—the service “asks the…

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Mobile Industry: San Diego-based UI Magic has bought Korean mobile game developer and publisher Moai Technology. “This acquisition will enable us to move into the real-time mobile networking gaming segment,…

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The BBC has a highlight on South Korea and what it’s doing with mobile technology...from WiBro to high-end handsets to DMB. It’s reasonably balanced, for example pointing out that “technical…

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The Korea Times reports that SK Telecom and Google will collaborate on mobile search for the operator’s Nate mobile portal. Details are sketchy at the moment, but the report says…

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This article points out that South Korea and Japan lead the way in mobile TV, digital imaging and so on, which isn’t news. But there’s an interesting statistic: “Nearly 14%…

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LG will set up “experience zones” in 10 Starbucks stores in Seoul to “promote its 10.95 mm pocket TV phones equipped with the terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) technology. LG…

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(reg required) This is behind a subscription wall on Telecoms Korea, but KT (which owns a majority share in Korean mobile operator KTF)has “announced that it will make 20.4 billion…

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