Korean IT Industry Trend and
Market outlook
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Current IT Strategy in Korea
Source: Korean Ministry of Knowledge Economy.
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Current hot Issue in Korea (3Q, 2013)
SW/Platform
Terminal
SW/Application
 Google Docs started replacing MS OFFICE
SW/Public sector
 High priority of technology level in public
procurement area
Mobile OS
 New OS – mozilla(Firefox), Jolla(Sailfish),
Tizen(Samsung) follow Android and iOS
Quality
Assurance
 QA committee, QA tool for clients
Smart Phone
Tablet PC
TV
Parts
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Display
 Samsung (1, 32.1%), Apple(2), Renovo(3) LG (4)
 Apple(1) – 26.9%, Samsung(2) - 20%
 Apple iTV will be out 4Q 2014 ,Google & Samsung
 Samsung Display : Focus on OLED from LCD
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Current hot Issue in Korea (3Q,2013)
ICT /
conversance
Transportation +
IT
Marine + IT
Service
4G/LTE
LBS
N Screen
 ITS(intelligent Transport system) by the government
 IT+ Road Info like Electric sign, BIS(Bus Info. Sys), etc.
 e-Navigation (vessel inside, ship-to-ship, ship-to-land)
 210million USD to be invested by the government
 4G voLTE Roaming service between China Mobile & SKT
 4G LTE service in China 2014 by China mobile
 New eMap service by Hyundai Motor car : National
statistics data + Private data  Market info, Real estate
 Mobile-PC integrated interface by EveryonTV
 2.35 digital books a person /year in China 6billion USD
Contents
Digital Book
Etc.
Patron
 Case of Patent Infringement under trial : Samsung vs.
Apple
Cloud
 The Cloud 2013 conference and government’s interest
Security
 Target attack and Data destruction will be expected to
increase 2014
Big Data
 Hadoop(Big data processing technique) applied to
Driving record analysis sys. of Traffic Safety (Public) Co.
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Google Drive and Google Docs and Hang out
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B2G
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Mobile OS
Android
iOS
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Tizen
Firefox(Mozilla)
Sailfish (Jolla)
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Quality Assurance
QA Tools
Data
Database
configure
Schema
Object
 Process
enhancement
 Lower Error rate
 Lower Downtime
 Systemized
Management
 Security and simple
management
 Productivity
 DB Tuning
 Stress Testing
 Data Synchronization
 Change Management
 Data Migration
 Data Masking
 Schema management
 Test Data management  Data Archiving
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Sales figures of Smartphone makers
Sales figures of mobile phone
Market size of Smartphone/Tablet PC(2017)
25,000
8,000
7,000
20,000
6,000
15,000
10,000
5,000
Apple
5,000
Samsung
4,000
Nokia
3,000
HTC
2,000
RIM
1,000
LG
0
12.3Q
12.2Q
12.1Q
11.4Q
11.3Q
11.2Q
11.1Q
10.4Q
10.3Q
10.2Q
10.1Q
0
(Source : Strategy Analytics 2012.11)
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(Source : Anderson Analysis, IDC, Gartner, GSMA, World Bank)
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Smart TV
iTV
iTunes
Customer Data
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+
Google TV
Samsung TV
SNS
Various Data
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Samsung Display – focusing on OLED
Investment plan of SS Display
(billion, USD)
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ITS
ITS to be led by the government more aggressively
Currently operation (in Korea)
BIS (Bus Info. System)
Electronic toll payment
TOPIS
(Transport Operation Info Service)
C-ITS Demonstration project operation
Smart Highway (~2014)
5 mobility mega R&D plan
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N Screen and smart sharing
PC
OS
Contents
Tablet
Platform
Contents
Smart
phone
`
cloud
Application
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SmartTV
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Hot Issues – Mobile Fusion Service
100 Gbps
Changes of Service environment in Korea
V
o
l
u
m
e
1 Gbps
Hologram
28Mbps
4K, UHD
Video call(1Gbps)
600 kbps~1.2Gbps
30kHz
Short word
Based SMS
Analog
Voice
Digital
Voice
(14.4kbps)
Video call /Streaming
service(10Mbps)
Knowledge
Call service
Intelligent
Telecom service
LBS
(M commerce, P2P based
Telematics) Info searching
Text based
Portal based
SMS
Internet search
WCDMA,
1x/EV-DO
Future(?)
WiBro-e, LTE-Adv.
5G
Mobile
Telecom
• Area → Volume (coverage)
• Telecom → Service
• Human → Everything
CDMA, GSM
Gbps level speed
transmission
Seamless
AMPS
1980
1990
2000
2010
2020
1G
2G
3G
4G
5G
Source : Kim Dong-gi, KCA 2013
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Hot Issues – Big Data
Big Data
User General
Content
Social Network
Mobile Web
Sentiment
User Click Stream
Web
Web Logs
A/B testing
HD Video
CRM
Segmentation
Affiliate Networks
Speech to Text
Search marketing
Offer details
Purchase detail
Purchase record
Business Data Feeds
Dynamic Pricing
Offer History
ERP
External Demographics
Customer Touches
Support Contacts
Behavioral Targeting
Dynamic Funnels
Product/Service Logs
SMS/MMS
Payment record
Increasing Data Variety and complexity
Source : Teradata
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Hot Issues – IoT
IoT and applications
Personal Devices
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Electronic Product
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Hot Issues – Mobile convergence and traffic increase
Mobile convergence needs more traffic
UHD Video
Mobile Cloud
16-Fold Mobile Traffic Increase
predicted from ‘12 to ’17
(Cisco Report ‘13)
Wearable/Flexible Devices
Peta Byte
Per
Month
x80
20,756
x16
13,173
…
7,941
Real time Game
Health Care
1,324 2,440
4,518
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
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…
2020
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Hot Issues – Mobile convergence and devices
A variety of smart devices with new interface
 Voice, Sensor, Camera, motion/action recognition
 Glasses, wrist watches, etc.
Devices wearable
Direction of Evolution
1990
2000
2010
2020
Notebook PC
Special Devices
Smartphone
TabletPC
Wearable
Flexible
Source : Forrester (2011)
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Hot Issues – Mobile convergence and new Biz Models
 New business models with U-cloud and M2M

 M2M service
Cloud service
 not dependent on client device
EX) Netflix, Youtube, Pandora, Spotify,…
 74%(2012) → 84%(2017)
 IoT and user-centered ICT fusion service
- Enterprise : Utilities, Supply Chain, Manufacturing,
Consumer Electronics, Healthcare, etc.
- Public : Transportation, Security, Safety
- Personal : Smart home, Connected Car
Source : Cisco VNI Mobile Forecast, 2013
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