SungHwan Kim, on a subway commute, reads blogs and newspapers using Web RSS readers. He also watches Youtube or even Joost on his ride back home on the highway. Inter-collegiate project groups and corporate teams have meetings at public parks taking notes and collaborating through wikis. People in suits walk around checking their schedules on online calendars. Young couples sit in a café searching and planning for their next trip to Hawaii.
Sounds like scenarios of the future, right? Nope. These are real events happening in Korea. With faster-than-DSL ubiquitous wireless access to the Web everywhere in Seoul, you can use web apps walking around, out in the parks, riding buses and trains, or even sitting in a public bathroom. Just for $500, you can get a UMPC the size of a book. The mixture of all of this with Web 2.0 will get you the future of Web 2.0: the Web in our everyday life.
The fact that Kim doesn’t distinguish between the “mobile web” and “Web 2.0″ is an indication of just how wireless Korea is. Handheld devices are more pervasive than computers and youth are leapfrogging past the PC entirely. As we keep our eyes on mobile usage, developing technologies, and marketing campaigns, we look forward to hearing more reports from South Korea.
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