Connectivity Providers Database

From: "Chanki Park" <ckp@nic.or.kr> To: 'Maria Dolores Lizarzaburu' <mlizarza@uoregon.edu> Time: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:18:40 +0900 Subject: RE: South Korea and the current state of the Internet Dear Maria, > 1. Could you please provide a technical description of South Korea's > external connectivity to the Internet - including upstream > provider(s), international bandwidth of the link(s), etc? - Please take a look at the international B/W.doc: http://nsrc.org/ASIA/KR/2006-Apr-South-Korea-International-Bandwidth.pd > 2. How many ISPs are currently operating in South Korea? Which of > those have external/international connectivity (Please include the > URL, and the name and email of an administrative/technical contact of > ISPS with external connectivity)? - 81 ISPs provide Internet services in Korea. - 23 ISPs have international connectivity. - Please refer to the ISP contact information: http://nsrc.org/ASIA/KR/2006-Apr-13-South-Korea-ISPs-Contact-Information.pdf - For the detailed information, you can check 'Korea ISP Directory 2006' that we published: http://www.bgi.co.kr > 3. Could you please provide an estimate of the Internet user base in > South Korea, in percentages? - Statistics show about 33 million people use Internet in Korea in 2005. However, we don't have detailed information on above categories. What we have is: - Percentage of Internet users by sex. * Male : 78.5%(17,780 thousand), Female : 67.2%(15,230 thousand) - Internet users by age. * 6~19(97.8%), 20~29(97.9%), 30~39(91%), 40~49(68.7%) 50~59(35.7%), 60~(11.9%) - Internet user by group. * Student(99.1%), professional/managerial person(94.2%), office worker(93.8%) Service/Sales(65.6%), Person in production(46.9%), housewife(59.1%), inoccupation/the rest(50.3%) Regards, Chanki Park <ckp@nic.or.kr>