While the Chinese marketplace seems to be largely ignoring the iPhone 3GS’>iPhone, their neighbors in southland Korea ar embrace the iPhone with open arms. According to Digital Orient Asia, wireless aircraft carrier KT sold something like 60,000 iPhones on launch day. In that one November twenty-four hours, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) sold 15% of the 400,000 smartphones sold in southland Korea for the stallion third quarter of 2010. It doesn’t make up for a lackluster Chinese launch, but Apple’s achiever in Korean Peninsula isn’t anything to be taken lightly. The fact that Apple managed to come in to a market dominated by homegrown Samsung and LG and amplification such a big beachhead so quickly could be a sign of things to come.
[Via: AppleInsider]