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Communications in Korea, South

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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 Service Providers (ISPs):

Internet users: 35.59 million (2007)