South Korea (Republic of Korea)

Bibliography

[Chon 2011] Kilnam Chon, "A Brief History of the Internet in Korea," The e-Bridge, Korea Information Processing Society, October 2011. [in Korean]

[Chon 2012] Kilnam Chon et al, "An Internet History of Korea," IEEE Communication Magazine, to be published.

[KISA 2012] KISA, Internet White Paper, http://isis.nida.or.kr/ebook/ebook.html, 2012. [in Korean]

[KISA 2012b] KISA, Cyber Internet History Museum, http://i-museum.kisa.or.kr, 2012. [in Korean]

[Korea 2012] Korea Internet History Project. http://www.InternetHistory.kr

Introduction

The TCP/IP network in South Korea started in May 1982, one of the earliest Internet deployments in the world. The initial TCP/IP network, called SDN,

consisted of two nodes with 1200 bps bandwidth.SDN served the research and education community with primary focus on network research, and had

international links with UUCP initially. The international links cover several countries in Asia, which is called AsiaNet, as well as Europe and North America.

In parallel to TCP/IP development, the communications on personal computers using bulletin boards and others also proliferated. These two network

developments along availability of WWW made explosive Internet growth in 1990s. These developments resulted in the leading broadband country with

various applications. The Internet is becoming the social infrastructure in Korea lately with many aspects of daily life are done through the Internet including

social and political activities. Convergence of the Internet with telecommunications and broadcasting is taking place now.