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A situation report on MHP in South Korea

By the end of 2006 satellite operator SkyLife expects to have more than 2 million MHP subscribers in South Korea. SkyLife offers a suite of MHP services, including various English education applications, games, T-commerce, sms, and several informational applications (weather, news, horoscopes, traffic, etc).

A total of six Korean MSOs have commercially launched OCAP-based services – the first, CJ CableNet, began in February 2005 with Mosaic EPG, VOD, karaoke, a finance portal and T-shopping. Gangnam Cable, a Korean regional cable operator, recently launched T-Government services for people that do not have easy access to the Internet. This service is expected to enhance interactions between the government and citizens while enabling TV viewers to experience convenient and customized public services including education and health services and convenient tax payments.

KT plans to begin ACAP-based IPTV services and will go into field tests in November 2006.

In 2004, the government of Korea, in cooperation with Alticast, SkyLife and KBS, offered Touch 2004, an MHP interactive TV election service. The service allowed viewers to participate in debates and polls, to view background information on the candidates, and to explore in detail the election counts as they happened.

Updated: 14/09/2006

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