ICT Policy in Information-society Policies of Korea

The Information and communications technology (ICT), which described as a source for a new industrial development of the knowledge based society, has played an important role for building a foundation for the national wealth. At the same time, it has been providing variety of knowledge based information services and foundations for further productivity and compatibility enhancements of Information Technology (IT) industry in Korea. The government has promoted an expansion of the IT supplying foundations with various driving forces like the information-society policies and R&D investments for diverse IT developments. Equipped with an independent supply of the technology, which is required on developing government policy, there have been tremendous efforts put into developments of the new industry and socio-economy through various demands for the Information and Telecommunication technology. Consequently, various technological advancements and information-society foundations like the world best broadband Internet access and usage rate, and the very first commercialized CDMA have been set a high valu