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The '''mobile phone industry in South Korea''' consists of domestic network infrastructure provision and the production of consumer mobile handsets.
==History==
===Car phone era===
In 1984, Korea Mobile Telecommunications Service, [[Korea Telecom]]'s subsidiary which later became [[SK Telecom]], started its mobile communications service with the [[car phone]].((Citation needed|date=August 2023))

===Mobile phone era===
====Consumer devices====
((Expand section|date=August 2023))
===Network and service developments===
* 1988, Korea Mobile Telecommunications Service started South Korea's first mobile phone service.<ref>[http://www.sktelecom.com/eng/index.html History of SK Telecom] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100315072219/http://www.sktelecom.com/eng/index.html |date=2010-03-15 ))</ref>
* 1996, Korea Mobile Telecommunications Service started the world's first [[cdmaOne]] service in [[Incheon]].  In the same year, [[KTF|Korea Telecom Freetel]] (KTF), which later merged with Korea Telecom, its parent company, began its service.<ref>[http://www.kt.com/eng/index.jsp Korea Telecom - Company - History]</ref>
* 1997, Korea Mobile Telecommunications Service was sold to [[SK Group]] and changed its name to [[SK Telecom]].  In the same year, [[LG Telecom]] started its business.<ref>[http://new.lgtelecom.com/jsp/eng/milestones_1.jsp?A=1&B=5 LG Telecom - About LG telecom - Milestones] ((webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20110713203318/http://new.lgtelecom.com/jsp/eng/milestones_1.jsp?A=1&B=5 |date=2011-07-13 ))</ref>
* 2002, Korea Telecom Freetel merged Internet companies invested by [[Samsung Group]] and became [[KTF]].

===Smartphone era===
====Consumer devices====
In 2009 [[KT Corporation|KT]] was the first network to introduce the iPhone.<ref>((cite web|date=November 29, 2009|url=http://www.cnet.com/news/iphone-officially-lands-in-south-korea|title=iPhone officially lands in South Korea|website=CNET|author=Katz, Leslie|access-date=August 11, 2015|archive-date=September 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200920185123/https://www.cnet.com/news/iphone-officially-lands-in-south-korea/|url-status=live))</ref> The origins of South Korea's domestic smartphone production industry can be traced to Samsung's release of their first smartphone, a reaction to Apple's iPhone, which was well-received by the South Korean population.((Citation needed|date=August 2023))

Later, as the smartphone sector kept growing, South Korean [[LG Electronics]] also participated in this competition. Compared to Apple and Samsung, LG had a different business strategy, which was to make devices with lower price and better functionality rather than with high specs; however, as LG started to focus on better camera functions and screen quality with better pixel, their cost of goods started to increase but the sales was not so much improved.<ref>((Citation|last=Schuhmacher|first=Alexander|title=Can Innovation Still Be the Main Growth Driver of the Pharmaceutical Industry?|date=2014-12-14|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12526-8_2|series=Perspectives on Sustainable Growth |pages=39–68|place=Cham|publisher=Springer International Publishing|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-12526-8_2 |isbn=978-3-319-12525-1 |s2cid=166817557 |access-date=2021-12-11))</ref>

As the result of continuing net loss in smart phone business, LG announced its decision to exit this area in April, 2021. Up until this time, Apple and Samsung has remained the two companies with the largest market shares, and LG had only cornered a small portion of the market. Apple knew this event was a chance to increase their sales in South Korea and tried to take this opportunity by renting LG’s display spaces in markets.<ref>((Cite journal|last1=Park|first1=Yuri|last2=Koo|first2=Yoonmo|date=April 2016|title=An empirical analysis of switching cost in the smartphone market in South Korea|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2016.01.004|journal=Telecommunications Policy|volume=40|issue=4|pages=307–318|doi=10.1016/j.telpol.2016.01.004|issn=0308-5961))</ref><ref>((Cite journal|last=Kim|first=Pyungho|date=July 2011|title=The Apple iPhone Shock in Korea|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01972243.2011.583826|journal=The Information Society|volume=27|issue=4|pages=261–268|doi=10.1080/01972243.2011.583826|s2cid=5212833 |issn=0197-2243))</ref> Samsung also acted by trying to tempt LG smartphone users by offering them good deals on their new Samsung phones, for example, by running trade-in events for used LG smartphones.((Citation needed|date=August 2023)) Competition between the two manufacuters in the South Korean market is still on-going.((Citation needed|date=August 2023))

====Network and service developments====
* 2009, KTF was merged with Korea Telecom.
* 2010, LG Telecom, LG Dacom, LG Powercom were merged into LG U Plus.
* 2012, KT shut down its 2G services and migrated to 3G network.
* 2020, SKT shut down its 2G services and migrated to newer generation networks.
* new technology was developed such as [[WiBro]] and [[LTE (telecommunication)|LTE]] ((citation needed|date=December 2016))

==Handsets==
===Domestic production===
Current South Korean producers of mobile phones include:
* [[Samsung Electronics]]
* [[KT Tech]]
Former South Korean producers of mobile phones include:
* [[Pantech Curitel]] - ceased production in 2017<ref>((cite news |title=Pantech to close smartphone business |url=https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20170512002000320 |access-date=22 August 2023 |agency=Yonhap News Agency |date=12 May 2017))</ref>
* [[LG Electronics]] - ceased production in 2021<ref>((Cite web|date=2021-04-05|title=LG to pull out of mobile phone market|url=http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/05/lg-to-pull-out-of-mobile-phone-market|access-date=22 August 2023 |website=The Guardian|language=en))</ref>

===Market share (domestic and imported handsets)===
Samsung and Apple have the largest market shares in Korea.((Citation needed|date=August 2023))

==Mobile phone service providers==
((Outdated|date=August 2023))
There are three mobile phone service providers and they are currently deploying their 5G networks.
* [[Korea Telecom]] (KT) absorbed [[KTF|KT Freetel]] (KTF) in 2002 and offers services using [[High Speed Packet Access|HSPA]] and [[LTE (telecommunication)|LTE]] networks.

* [[LG U Plus]] (LG U+), a member of [[LG Group]], also provides [[CDMA2000]] and [[3GPP Long Term Evolution|LTE]] networks.

* [[SK Telecom]] (SKT) of [[SK Group]] also offers services using [[High Speed Packet Access|HSPA]] and [[LTE (telecommunication)|LTE]] networks. In 2020 the CDMA2000 network was  shut down.

((As of|2004)) the market shares of the three companies were believed to be: SK Telecom's 50 percent, Korea Telecom's 30 percent and LG Telecom's 20 percent.<ref>[http://plusd.itmedia.co.jp/mobile/articles/0411/18/news009.html Three Korean mobile phone service providers]  (in Japanese, 2004)</ref>

==Official bodies and technical partnerships==
In South Korea, the [[Ministry of Information and Communication (South Korea)|Ministry of Information and Communication]] (MIC) is the telecommunications authority.

The [[Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute]] (ETRI) supports [[Qualcomm]]'s research and development of [[CDMA]] and [[CDMA2000]] technology.

Regarding the Korean mobile phone industry's overseas experiences, SK Telecom has helped the first mobile phone service companies in [[Mongolia]], [[Uzbekistan]], [[Cambodia]], etc.  In [[China]], it helped [[China Unicom]]'s CDMA implementation, both technically and financially.((citation needed|date=December 2016))

==See also==
* [[Telecommunications in South Korea]]
* [[List of telephone operating companies#South Korea|List of telephone operating companies]]
* [[List of mobile network operators of the Asia Pacific region#South Korea|List of mobile network operators]]
* [[List of mobile phone makers by country#South Korea|List of mobile phone makers]]
* [[Culture of South Korea#Cellular phones|Culture of South Korea: Cellular Phones]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.kt.com/eng/ Korea Telecom official site] (Korean & English)
* [http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20110218090526/http%3A//new.lgtelecom.com/ LG U Plus official site](Korean & English)
* [http://www.sktelecom.com SK Telecom official site] (Korean & English)

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