Korean teens: E-mail? It's so last-century!, thestar online, 3 Mar 2005

“Daum Communications, the leading e-mail provider in South Korea, has announced that page impressions for its e-mail service are down for the first time. The company's e-mail service pageviews fell more than 20% from 3.9 billion in October 2003 to three billion a year later. Actual e-mail 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 (short message service) transmissions jumped more than 40% in October last year, from 2.7 billion 12 months previously.�

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