Information Flows on the Internet of Korea

in Korea during the last several years: the infrastructure, online businesses, domains, and subscribers have all grown fast. OECD ranked Korea the leader among its member countries in terms of the broadband penetration rate: 13.9 subscribers per 100 inhabitants as of June 2001. The penetration rate of the next best performing country, Canada, is only a little over 6 subscribers per 100 inhabitants. While studying information flows on the Internet enables us to understand better how new telecommunications media have affected the existing spatial structure, there have been few geographic studies on the Internet. This is perhaps because the advancement of the Internet is new, so that relevant data are not readily available, and appropriate methods to analyze the phenomenon are not yet well developed. Previous studies on the geography of the Internet have touched mainly upon three subjects, namely the networks functioning as the paths of information flow, the domains as sources of information, and flows on the network. The physical nature of the Internet has drawn more attention than the other subjects of Internet geography, perhaps because of the availability of data on the networks. Studies examined the topology of the Internet backbones of Western countries, employing network connectivity and accessibility measures. Examples are HE history of the Internet in Korea begins in the mid-1990s, although the earliest use of the Bitnet goes back to the 1980s. The growth of the Internet has been remarkable

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