ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the growth of digital technologies, since the phenomenal growth of digital technologies needs to be analyzed within the overall context of the growth of digital technologies and culture. It addresses the ways in which Korea’s specific history has shaped the growth of digital technologies and culture in the most networked society from several different approaches. Digital Korea started its global reputation with the growth of broadband. Although many countries have developed their own high-speed Internet service, Korea’s broadband system was the frontrunner in the global broadband technologies. One of the major features of digital Korea has been the swift growth of digital games, in particular online gaming, followed by mobile gaming, which has fundamentally changed people’s daily leisure activities and youth culture, as well as the digital economy. Digital technologies have continuously transformed Korean society toward networked and socially connected urban space.
