Korea - The Testbed

It's no secret that folks in South Korea are quite a bit more connected than most other places in the world -- with much wider spread adoption of high speed wireline and wireless broadband technologies. Many companies have gone to South Korea to see how people there are using these technologies to get a head start on how others around the world are likely to use technologies after they catch up in the connectivity department -- and companies with experience there are looking to spread that knowledge elsewhere as well. Because of this, it's not at all surprising that you can find lots of cool new gadgets in Korea first -- but what might surprise some people is that they're not all from Korean companies. Instead, plenty of foreign gadget makers are releasing products in Korea first, as a test bed, before pushing the products out around the globe.  Of course, that foreign competition leads to some patriotic complaints from local companies -- but, as the article notes, that doesn't seem to stop many from buying iPods or other foreign gadgets.
(Via Techdirt.)

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