Korean Digital Government Infrastructure Building and Implementation: Capacity Dimensions

Yoon, Jeongwon

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“…The first major telecom project came in the early 1980s when the state attempted to domestically produce a telephone switching device. The end product, the TDX, was the result of collaboration between policymakers, academics, and industry (Jin, 2006; Yoon, 2016). The Korean state directed almost 1% of total GDP to the project and its success made Korea only the 10th nation in the world to be able to domestically produce a telephone switching device (Yoon, 2016: 43).…”

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“…The end product, the TDX, was the result of collaboration between policymakers, academics, and industry (Jin, 2006; Yoon, 2016). The Korean state directed almost 1% of total GDP to the project and its success made Korea only the 10th nation in the world to be able to domestically produce a telephone switching device (Yoon, 2016: 43). The success of the TDX project, and the advances in technological know-how that enabled it, laid the groundwork for Korea’s first mini-computer, the TICOM, as well as its first dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chip (Larson, 1995; Yoon, 2016).…”

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“…The Korean state directed almost 1% of total GDP to the project and its success made Korea only the 10th nation in the world to be able to domestically produce a telephone switching device (Yoon, 2016: 43). The success of the TDX project, and the advances in technological know-how that enabled it, laid the groundwork for Korea’s first mini-computer, the TICOM, as well as its first dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chip (Larson, 1995; Yoon, 2016). These successes in turn equipped Korea with a host of engineers, academics, and officials who possessed both the technological know-how and vision to help set Korea on a path toward success in broadband.…”

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“…The plan included implementing a high-speed broadband network plan that would invest US$45 billion over the next 20 years. After 2 years, the plan was amended to use only US$32 billion, but finish 10 years early, in 2005 (Yoon, 2016: 46). The fact that the timeline was moved ahead so drastically speaks to the deep conviction of Korean leaders that broadband would play a crucial role in advancing Korea’s national competitiveness in the 21st century.…”

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“…Korea’s resistance to early privatization/foreign competition allowed it greater latitude in implementing top-down directives that were at odds with contemporaneous market forces. This included high early levels of broadband network infrastructure investment that prompted ‘many countries to believe that Korea was investing too much into its broadband network infrastructure’ (Yoon, 2016: 53). Despite such criticisms of its state-mandated infrastructure investments, Korea persisted and despite the combination of regulatory measures promoting equity of access as well as almost one-billion US dollars in preferential loans, Korea was also able to achieve not only the highest broadband penetration rates but also remarkable equity in rural–urban broadband deployment (Choudrie and Lee, 2004: 107).…”

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