What are you trying accomplish with the Digital City project in South Korea?
Basically the Seoul metropolitan government was trying to come up with a development plan for the last undeveloped land in Seoul. They wanted to build a planned city, and like many countries in Asia, they had thought of building a high-technology district or cluster, like Silicon Valley Asia, if you will. But they realized that there was already too much competition. Korea is a much more developed country and they have much more to offer than low-cost manufacturing like production of silicon chips. What they decided to do is to get into digital media. What was the rationale? Korea has probably the largest domestic video game market in the world. Two of the biggest multiplayer online games are Korean, with millions of players all over the world. It is much harder to get a response by e-mail from an elected official than it is to get one by phone. That’s a pretty bad precedent. Seoul, last year, had more broadband lines than all of North America. And there’s something like a million 3G w
