After 5 years of growth, the local smartphone market prepares to shrink as much as 14% for the current year. South Korea has the highest density of smartphones users in the world. Internationally, Samsung had released 37 mostly low-end phones last year alone. Amazing how that compares to a single high-end phone from Apple (except for two phones in 2013). Samsung relies heavily on new phone sales and a slowdown could cause problems for their electronics division. Continue reading
In the local market, the five domestic automobile manufacturers suffered decreasing sales for the second year in a row. Foreign automaker sales have been continually rising since the economic downturn.
A summary of recent spy activity in South Korea that includes 49 arrests in 10 years. Nearly half of these were people disguised as North Korean defectors. Continue reading
감사합니다! kamsa-hamnida Thank you!
We wanted to take a moment and thank everyone who’s been following the series and supported us by purchasing An Illustrated Guide to Korean.
We appreciate all of your feedback and know that some of you have plans to purchase it from Amazon.com. Today we learned the freight shipment to the US had delays due to heavy shipping season around the Korean Chuseok holiday last month. We anticipate it’s arrival at Amazon very soon and will make an announcement when it’s available from the site. Special thanks to our stateside family and friends for being patient. Continue reading
