By recent KADO(Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity & Promotion)'s survey(2004 Digital Opportunity White Paper), a digital divide is still a grim reality in age, disabled, education, income, occupation and etc.
Among them, the demographic gulf is most serious as the gap in usage rate between teenagers (7~19 year olds) and 50-somethings amounts to 79.3 percentage points. Most Korean (70.2 percent) accessed the Internet regularly last year compared to the disabled (34.8 percent), for a 35.4 percentage point difference. Sungnam Choi Senior Researcher Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity & Promotion http://www.kado.or.kr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Carvin Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 9:37 AM To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group Subject: [DDN] 70% of Koreans Use Internet (fwd) From the Asia Pacific Media Network... -ac 70% of Koreans Use Internet Up to seven out of 10 South Koreans go online periodically, reaffirming the nation's staunch status as an Internet powerhouse, according to a government survey. The Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) said Monday that Korea had 31.6 million Internet users at the end of 2004, up 2.4 million from a year earlier. Internet users, which officials define as those who access the Web for one hour or more a month, made up 70.2 percent of the nation's 45 million people aged six or above. The results of the nationwide study, which was conducted last December on 17,535 people aged six or above in 7,042 households, have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 0.67 percentage point. snip http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=20160 -- ----------------------------------- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media & Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net http://www.tsunami-info.org Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com ----------------------------------- _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
