Knowledge Management in the Digital Economy: A Case of Republic of Korea

Knowledge management has been a major research area for scholars and researchers for long time now. With rapid development and growth of Information and communication technologies in the economy, organizations are trying to attain maximum use of them in order to learn, expand and share knowledge across the organization. These efforts are many and different according to the existing context and culture of organization. This paper will find out knowledge management in Korean organizations. This paper further examines the drivers, characteristics, methods and implementation of a knowledge management system in Republic of Korea. In this process this will examine a case of Samsung Data System (SDS) a software corporation and its successful implementation of Knowledge management systems. Korea is in an advance stage in using information and communication technologies and internet related business while and it is becoming a test bed to the World for experimenting new advances in these technologies