Internet penetration in Korea
Some news coming from Korea is quite interesting:
First, Korea's Internet population reached the 30 million mark in the first half of this year. Penetration rate is now 68%, just 10 years after its initial launch to commercialisation.
Overall tendency? Growth in penetration is slowing down and the average user spends less time on the internet - down to 11.5 hours per week from 12.2 hours last year. The government sees the reason in the introduced 5 day week - (does this mean, that those working on Saturdays spend a lot of time on the web?).
In addition, and not surprising, there is a usage gap according to age. Penetration rate is highest amongst teens and users in the 20s (95%), reaches 87% for those in the 30s. People in the 40s had a 58.3 penetration and the figure was down sharply to 27.6% for those in the 50s.
Read the full report at the link provided above.
First, Korea's Internet population reached the 30 million mark in the first half of this year. Penetration rate is now 68%, just 10 years after its initial launch to commercialisation.
Overall tendency? Growth in penetration is slowing down and the average user spends less time on the internet - down to 11.5 hours per week from 12.2 hours last year. The government sees the reason in the introduced 5 day week - (does this mean, that those working on Saturdays spend a lot of time on the web?).
In addition, and not surprising, there is a usage gap according to age. Penetration rate is highest amongst teens and users in the 20s (95%), reaches 87% for those in the 30s. People in the 40s had a 58.3 penetration and the figure was down sharply to 27.6% for those in the 50s.
Read the full report at the link provided above.
posted by Andreas @ 5:49 pm
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