Abstract for presentation in Session 3
Interactive services over Cable
Sungkwon Park, Ph.
Speaker contacted by Greg White (CableLabs). Korea Digital Cable Forum will support the speaker’s trip to
Geneva.
In this presentation, the transition status of digitisation of Cable TV and interactive services in Korea will be
introduced. The US digital cable standard, so called, OpenCable standard has been selected for the national
standard on April 2001. On March 2004, a Korean operator has declared that it has installed a working
digital head end as well as set top boxes, completely conforming to the standard, first in the World. In 2003,
the potential of HFC (Hybrid Fiber Coaxial) networks has been highly recognized by the Korean government
for the convergence of broadcasting and telecommunication for the decade to come. In addition to TCommerce, the Korean government has declared to deploy T-Government by 2007. A telco has declared
recently to use cable modems and networks in collaboration with local operators for its VoIP (Voice of IP)
service nation wide. These new movements in Korea will be presented in detail.