Telephones - main lines in use:
23.905 million (2007)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
43.5 million (2007)

Telephone system:
general assessment: excellent domestic and international services featuring rapid incorporation of new technologies
domestic: combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular telephone subscribership roughly 140 per 100 persons; rapid assimilation of a full range of telecommunications technologies leading to a boom in e-commerce
international: country code - 82; numerous submarine cables provide links throughout Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Europe, and US; satellite earth stations - 66

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 96, FM 322, shortwave 1 (2008)

Television broadcast stations:
57 (plus 103 cable operators and 119 relay cable operators) (2008)

Internet country code:
.kr

Internet hosts:
333,823 (2008)

Internet users:
35.59 million (2007)