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The IT 8.3.9 Strategy
The IT 8.3.9 strategy is intended to develop the infrastructure
and integrate it with telecommunication services, equipment,
software and content to create vertical and horizontal value chains
in the ICT industry. IT 8.3.9 involves:
• Introducing and promoting eight services – Promotion of
the ICT service industries will be sought through timely deci-
sions on licensing and service methods: WiBro service, DMB
service, Telematics service, Home Network service, RFID-
based service, W-CDMA service, Terrestrial DTV, and Internet
Telephony
• Building three advanced infrastructures – The establishment
of advanced infrastructures will provide a firm basis for the
promotion of infocommunications and broadcasting services:
Broadband convergence Network (BcN), U-Sensor Network
(USN), and Internet Protocol v6 (IPv6)
• Development of nine IT New Growth Engines – Next-gener-
ation mobile communications, Digital TV, Home Network,
IT SoC, next-generation PC, embedded software, digital
contents, telematics, and Intelligent Service Robots.
Many agencies under the Ministry of Information and
Communication (MIC) are leading the Government’s initiatives
for the successful implementation of the IT 8.3.9 Strategy. For
example, the National Internet Development Agency of Korea
(NIDA) has been playing a role in the ‘eight services’ and ‘three
infrastructures’ areas, managing IPv6 resources and a RFID multi-
code directory service.1
Bridging the digital divide
The 21st century is an era where knowledge and information
determines a nation’s competitiveness. The advancement of ICT
facilitated a rapid transformation towards the Information Society
and the Internet, especially, made the free flow of information
possible, just as the development of the printing press gave
people an opportunity to share information and educate them-
selves in the past. To maximize the value of the Internet, everyone
should have access to it. If people in certain regions are unable
to access the Internet, then the technology will not be able to
live up to its potential. As information should be shareable and
equally important to all, we have to recognize that the global
digital divide currently presents a serious impediment to the
Information Society.
Korea is well aware of this fact, and has made every effort to
bridge the digital divide at domestic and international levels,
sharing its own achievements with all the other countries. We
know it is time to assume a leading role in the international
community, to help developing countries in return for the assis-
tance that Korea received after the Korean War less than half a
century ago. Korea itself once suffered crushing poverty and
hunger, and has successfully transformed itself from an impov-
erished recipient of foreign aid to a full player in the international
effort to eradicate poverty.
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OECD average
OECD broadband subscribers per 100 inhabitants, by technology, December 2004
8 Services 3 Infrastructure 9 Growth engines
WiBro Service
Next Generation
Mobile
Communication
Digital TV
Home Network
IT SoC
Next Generation PC
Embedded SW
Digital Contents
Telematics
Intelligent Service
Robot
Broadband
Convergence
Network (RcN)
U-Sensor Network
(USN)
Internet Protocol
v6 (IPv6)
DMB Service
Home Network
Service
Telematics Service
RFID based Service
W-CDMA Service
Terrestrial DTV
Internet Telephony
IT 8.3.9 strategy