I first took note of Korea's entry into the digital world in 1999 when news of their on-line gaming community being the largest in the world.  Linage is a Korean MMOG, which today enjoys close to 3 million participants. 

This week Korea announced their entry into the VOIP world with a splash.  They have implemented a 07 dialing VOIP prefix to all Korean land-line telephone numbers.   Korea is reported to have above 70% penetration of broadband, which is a hugely amazing numbers.

The World Cyber Games (affectionatley know to gamers as WCG)  staretd in Korea and is now touring the world.  Last year, this event was held in LA.  It is in Singapore this year.  The professional gaming industry started in Korea where the top gamers are paid large sums of money and treated like rock stars. 

The gaming nation had some very sad news today.  A 28 year old man died after 50 hours of continous on-line gaming.   Let's hope he was not playing WOW.