Beginning of the end, Guardian Unlimited, 3 Mar 2005

“South Koreans, long the leaders in online communications, are foregoing email as they look for new ways of instant communication. Daum Communications, the leading email provider in South Korea, has announced that page impressions for its email service are down for the first time. The company's email service page views fell more than 20% from 3.9bn in October 2003 to 3bn a year later. Actual emails sent dropped by 16% in the same period. This is in sharp contrast to SK Telecom, Korea's leading mobile phone company, which revealed that monthly SMS transmissions jumped more than 40% in October last year, from 2.7bn texts sent 12 months previously.�

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