South Korea says it wants to win 10 gold medals during the Beijing Olympic Games, but it has already won one!
According to The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, South Korea has the most developed broadband network in the world. The 2008 ITIF Broadband Rankings take household penetration, speed and price into account, calculates the standard deviation and then tallies up the score. South Korea got a 15.92, just ahead of Japan's 15.05. The UK placed in 13th place and the U.S. 15th place.
I first got wind of this story from the online edition of China's People's Daily. It reports on South Korea's broadband penetration, but ends on the fact that China did not rank, despite having an active broadband network.
The China Daily article also says that China's overall internet penetration rate is 16-percent, below the global average of 19.1-percent.
The ITIF also did a more in-depth profile into South Korea and why it's number 1. You can get the article here. Apparently, it has a lot to do with government programs that encourage Internet usage. Surprising? Actually, it's not that surprising, but internet usage among Korean students is over 99-percent. But that should be true of most OECD countries, right?
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