South Korea's Internet Usage Tops 70%

Korea's Internet penetration rate passed 70 percent at the end of 2004. More than 31 million of the country's 48 million people used online access.

A survey by the Ministry of Information and Communication conducted in January 2004 indicated that 31.6 million people of the country's 44 million people over the age of six accessed the Internet at least once in the past month via desktop computer or wireless terminal. This accounts for a penetration rate of 70.2 percent.

More than 72.2 percent of the surveyed households used digital subscriber lines (xDSL) for Internet access, while 11.3 percent used cable and 3.6 percent had fixed-line modems.

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