iPhone Finally Going to Korea could

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta-Although South Korea had a gadget-cool gadget from Samsung and LG, but the launch of iPhone in Seoul, South Korea's business heart, keep fans invaded. Hundreds of iPhone fans who would wait in line day and night for that device.

A 25-year-old student was delighted when she became the first buyer. He was surprised when he received a flash and pounding music.

"I am very pleased," said Huh Jin Seok, the first iPhone buyers in Korea. He has waited for 26 hours in front of the store and "I was really tired."

IPhone Booking open from 22 November and really gets rapturous welcome. There are at least 65 thousand people who ordered the iPhone.

KT Corp., the operator who worked with Apple to market the iPhone, said 850 people took the order at the launch event. The rest is sent to the office or home.

"We hope the iPhone will be a trigger for the growing smart phone market in Korea," said Yang Hyun-mi, Chief Strategy Officer of KT. In Korea, the current smart phone market pie just 1 percent of the total mobile phone market.

"We believe the market is very big," he said, without detailing how to score.

Entry of the iPhone in Korea is pretty much slow. They lost to Singapore or Indonesia. "A lot of rules and policies that must be negotiated," said Yang. Government regulations also restrict the iPhone to enter. Permission from the government's new out this month.

So far, the Korean mobile phone market dominated by Samsung and LG. Both companies were also sitting on the ranked 2nd and 3rd world's largest mobile phone maker after Nokia.