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South Korea

South Korea Telecommunications Stats

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STAT AMOUNT DATE RANK HISTORY
Country calling code 82 2014
Telephone > Fixed telephone lines 30.1 million 2012 11th out of 211
Telephone > Fixed telephone lines per thousand people 601.94 2012 8th out of 207
Telephone > Households with landlines 13.41 million 2000 1st out of 4
Telephone > Households with landlines per thousand people 285.34 2000 1st out of 4
Telephone > International calling code 82 2014 45th out of 54
Telephone > Landlines 29.47 million 2010 11th out of 100
Telephone > Main fixed phone lines per 100 people 61.42 2012 5th out of 202
Telephone > Mobile phone > Mobile penetration 106% 2013 4th out of 147
Telephone > Mobile phone > Mobile phones 52.51 million 2014 26th out of 66
Telephone > Mobile phone > Mobile subscriptions 51.81 million 2013 8th out of 147
Telephone > Mobile phone > Mobile subscriptions per thousand people 1,058.33 2013 4th out of 146
Telephone > Mobile phone > Mobile-cellular telephone subscriptions 53.62 million 2012 26th out of 199
Telephone > Mobile phone > Mobile-cellular telephone subscriptions per thousand people 1,072.4 2012 91st out of 197
Telephone > Rural households with landlines 2.94 million 2000 1st out of 3
Telephone > Rural households with landlines per thousand people 62.64 2000 1st out of 3
Telephone > Telephone greetings, owner answers phone Yeoboseyo? / 여보세요? 2014
Telephone > Urban households with landlines 10.47 million 2000 1st out of 3
Telephone > Urban households with landlines per thousand people 222.7 2000 1st out of 3

SOURCES: Wikipedia: List of country calling codes (Alphabetical listing by country or region); United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; Wikipedia: Telephone numbers in Asia (States and territories with country calling codes); Wikipedia: List of countries by number of telephone lines in use; International Telecommunications Union; Wikipedia: List of countries by number of broadband Internet subscriptions (List of countries) ("Active mobile-broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants 2012" , Dynamic Report, ITU ITC EYE, International Telecommunication Union . Retrieved on 29 June 2013.); Wikipedia: List of countries by number of mobile phones in use; Wikipedia: List of countries by number of broadband Internet subscriptions (List of countries) (Calculated using penetration rate and population data from "Countries and Areas Ranked by Population: 2012" , Population data, International Programs, U.S. Census Bureau, retrieved 26 June 2013); Wikipedia: List of countries by number of broadband Internet subscriptions (List of countries) (Calculated using penetration rate and population data from "Countries and Areas Ranked by Population: 2012" , Population data, International Programs, U.S. Census Bureau, retrieved 26 June 2013). Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; International Telecommunications Union. Source tables; International Telecommunications Union. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; Wikipedia: Greeting (Telephone greetings)

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