Seoul - South Korea boast the world's fastest Internet connections - the fastest globally by far - but that is still not good enough for the government.
The country intends to connect every home in the country to the Internet at one gigabit per second by the end of 2012. That woud be a ten fold increase from its already blazing national standard today and that is more than 200 times as fast as the average household setup in the United States.
The South Korean average internet connections are far faster than those in Hong Kong, which is ranked No.2 in the world, and Japan at No. 3. South Korea cities also hold the top 11 spots worldwide for Internet connection speed, with four Japanese cities rounding out the top 15. Hong Kong ranks 46th over all. The US city with the fastest Internet speed is San Jose, California in 57th place.
This is amazing that South Korea was once poorer than North Korea, and is now the world's 13th largest economy. It recovered from the ravages of the Korean War by yoking its economy to heavy industries like cars, steel, shipbuilding and construction.
A lot of South Koreas are early adopters and the fast speed is needed for 3-D TV, Internet Protocol TV, High definition multi-media, gaming and video conferencing, ultra high-definition TV, cloud computing.
Ref:
International Herald Tribune - Feb 22, 2011
Internet Analyst Akamai Technologies
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