Top ISPs in South Korea

Rank	ISP	Leased Line	xDSL	Cable	Webhost	Dialup
1	Dacom Corporation (1)	12	60	51	3	4,166
2	SAMSUNG SDS Co. Ltd.	1.1	-	-	-	3,775
3	Korea Education & Research Information Service (2)	-	-	-	0.4	3,759
4	Korea PC Telecom (3)	1.1	-	-	2	3,684
5	Netsgo.co.kr	-	-	-	0.4	2,426
6	NOWCOM Co. Ltd.	0.3	-	-	-	1,850
7	Channel I (LG InterNet Inc.)	-	-	-	-	1,700
8	Hanaro Telecom (4)	120	1,215	652	0.1	-
9	Korea Telecom	27	1,967	-	2	-
10	Turunet Co. Ltd.	-	-	900	-	-
11	Broadband Media, DreamX	0.2	107	63	-	-
12	Shinbiro (Onse Telecom )	3	-	156	-	-

Notes

All numbers in thousands of subscribers. ISDN numbers and pure shell accounts ignored.

Source: KoreaNIC, March, 2001

History: July 2000, current values.

(1) Dacom Corporation has two URLs: http://www.chollian.net, and http://www.bora.net

(2) For further information about the Education & Research Information Service, see this English notice.

(3) Korea PC Telecom reported 442,000 ppp/shell accounts.

(4) Hanaro Telecom is the only CLEC in Korea licensed to provide voice and data service and to build its own network

Population data from the CIA (July, 2000 est.): 47,470,969

—End