South Korea Voice & Data Industry

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Voice & Data Industry -- South Korea


Assignment:    Voice & Data Industry -- South Korea:  the market for voice and data in South Korea, including competitor information for companies such as Amp-Tyco, Avaya, Panduit; financials on those companies; import and export regulations; general industry information; market information, including demand, market size, etc.
(IBUS 496, 04/15/04)
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Foster Business Library Databases:

    The Foster Business Library offers an extensive collection of over fifty databases on its homepage; see under Databases. For a complete list of Foster databases, see the List of All Business Databases. Access to these databases from off campus requires that you first go to the Off-Campus Access button, in the upper right of all library webpages. These resources may not be accessed from off campus except by those with a valid UW Net ID and password. For more information on Foster business databases, click Databases, A-Z. For information on which Foster business databases to use, see the Database Index. For information on accessing Foster databases from off campus, see Database Access. For guidelines on responsible database usage, see Database Usage.

  • EIU Online:   One of the world's top sources for country intelligence, the Economist Intelligence Unit employs 500 analysts who research almost 200 nations. The Foster Business Library provides access to their Country Profiles, Country Reports, Country Commerce, and Country Finance in print editions and this database provides online access to these publications, often in both HTML and PDF formats.

    For information on companies, products, and countries, go to Viewswires. A search in Viewswires for the Voice & Data and South Korea produced over no articles. 65 articles. For information on South Korea, see the monthly Country Reports; the annual Country Profiles; and the annual Country Commerce for this country. In each case, bring up the full reports and use Control-F to find Telecommunications or Voice and Data. The Country Commerce for each country is a particularly good source for information about regulations.

  • Euromonitor:   This database provides global consumer market information, with demographics, trends and developments, market background, market sizes and forecasts, market shares, key players, and company profiles. This database provides over 1,800 reports with market data and detailed company profiles, including market shares, brand information, company strategy and SWOT analyses of the companies, for many countries. For eight major countries (Australia, China, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States), in-depth industry information is also available.

    A search in this database, in Region/Country, for South Korea, produced over forty reports, including business telecommunications equipment, cellular communications, and telephone services. A search in Market Sector for Telecommunications produced over fifty reports, including reports on business telecommunications, cellular communications, etc., including a 2004 reports on business telecommunications in South Korea, and cellular communications services in the same country.

  • Europa World:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed only under International/Country Information.   This database mirrors the Europa World Year Book in the Foster Business Library, with profiles for 250 countries as well as a variety of regions and international organizations, with statistical, historical, political, and economic information and data, as well as a comparison feature, and directory information.

    See the country information for the Republic of Korea, and, in particular, Economic Affairs. See also their Country Statistics.

  • Forrester Research:   Under Databases on the Foster Business Library homepage. Forrester Research provides access to reports and briefings on the effects of technology change on businesses, consumers, and society, and analyzes such technology areas as new media, computing, software, networking, telecommunications, and the Internet. To use this database, UW users must establish a personal account from a UW IP address.

    A search for Korea produced over thirty reports. Narrowing this search to telecommunications produced six reports.

  • Hoovers Online:   Hoovers Online offers information about 40,000 public and private companies worldwide, with links to company homepages and annual reports, charts, company capsule, competitors, divisions, earnings, financials, history, industry information, insider trading, mission statements, news links, press releases, officers, patents, products, SEC filings, splits, subsidiaries, etc.

    See the Hoovers Online industry factsheet for Avaya, and their Financials and Products/Operations. See also similar information for Tyco Electronics and Panduit Corporation. Avaya is in the Enterprise Telecommunications Equipment industry, in this database, while Panduit and Tyco Electronics are included in the Electrical Products and Electronic Components industries, respectively. See also the list of companies in Hoovers Online that are headquartered in South Korea.

  • Kompass:   Directory information for 1.6 million companies in 72 countries, with indexes for company products and services, containing 23 million product and service references, and 500,000 trademarks and brand names.  

    A search for Voice & Data, limited to Korea, Republic Of produced two main categories, Telecommunication System Exchanges and Network Equipment, with over 100 companies, and Integrated Computer Systems, with over 120 companies.

  • STAT-USA:   Go to Globus & NTDB, and then to Country Commercial Guides, prepared annually by U.S. embassies for 120 nations, with the assistance of several U.S. government agencies. These reports present a comprehensive look at countries' commercial environments, using economic, political and market analysis.

    See the latest guide for South Korea. See Leading Sectors for U.S. Exports and Investments, Best Prospects for Non-Agricultural Goods and Services. For South Korea, Broadcasting Equipment and Services, and Wireless Broadband Equipment and Services rank in the top twenty sectors.

Web Resources:

    Unlike library databases, Web resources are available wherever you have web access; they do not require that you access them via the Off-Campus Access button, in the upper right of all library webpages. When using web resources, be sure to evaluate the credibility of these resources. For a subject index to web resources, see Business Resources on the Web on the Foster Business Library homepage.

  • American Chamber of Commerce in Korea:   Wherever many American companies do business you can often find an American chamber of commerce, often with useful information about doing business in the country and local contacts. "The American Chamber of Commerce in Korea, better known as AMCHAM, was founded in 1953 with a broad mandate to encourage the development of trade and commerce between Korea and the United States. Our membership has grown to over 2,300 members and includes over 1,000 member companies. " See their Publications and Information Resources.

  • The International Telecommunications Union:  "The Union was established last century as an impartial, international organization within which governments and the private sector could work together to coordinate the operation of telecommunication networks and services and advance the development of communications technology." The ITU includes 189 nations as member states. See their page for the Republic of Korea and Telephone Lines and Cellular Subscriber Estimates, By Country. The ITU website includes a search engine.

  • NationMaster.Com:   This Australian site uses data from many sources to provide graphic rankings, lists and interactive comparisons for countries' crime, economy, education, energy, environment, geography, government, health, media, military, people, religion, sports, and transportation, for over 250 countries and areas. This site also enables viewing of individual country profiles, with maps and flags, and of regions and groupings. See South Korea, and, in particular, the Media section.

  • U.S. Embassies:   The United States State Department has embassies and consulates worldwide, with their individual websites often providing valuable local information for business under the heading of the U.S. Commercial Service. The Commercial Service provides information for U.S. businesses interested in exporting to the country as well as information for companies in the country where the embassy is located to source U.S. products. See Republic of Korea and the U.S. Commercial Section in Korea.

  • World Factbook:   These brief country profiles (prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency) offer information about government, economy, GDP, CPI, labor force, unemployment rate, budget, industries, agriculture, export, import, communications, debt, foreign aid, etc. See Korea, South and Communications in South Korea.

Foster Business Library Reference Collection:

    The Foster Business Library Reference Collection consists of business handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other quick reference tools. It is located behind the Reference Desk in Foster, arranged by call number. Reference materials cannot be checked out; they may only be used in the library.

  • International marketing data and statistics.
    Demographic trends and forecasts, economic indicators, labor force, trade, energy, environment, consumer expenditures and market size, and retailing information for the Americas, Asia, Africa and Oceania; companion volume to European marketing data and statistics.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HA42 .I56. 2003.

    See the chapter on Communications, for telecommunications data for Korea, on pages 556 to 589.

  • World development indicators.
    This World Bank volume contains a large number of tables listing each country and key data about its people, environment, economy, markets, employment, poverty, etc. For data about personal computers, internet hosts, secure servers, etc., see section 5.10 for Information Age.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC59.15 .W656 2005.
    Also available, in part, online at http://www.worldbank.org/data/wdi/home.html.

    See Power and Communications, in South Korea, on pages 306 to 309.

  • World consumer income patterns.
    This Euromonitor publication provides global coverage of comparable income distribution data, over time and across countries, for 71 major countries, divided into socio-economic parameters, cross country comparisons, and snapshots for over seventy countries.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC79 .I5 .W675 2003.

    See South Korea on pages 407 to 411.

  • The global information technology report.
    This World Economic Forum publication provides country profiles and data about the diffusion of information technology, along with chapters on network readiness, global diffusion of information technology, information technology and poverty, regulatory reform, and a case study on Finland.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC79 .I55 .G56 2003-2004.

    See Korea on page 161.

  • Standard & Poor's industry surveys.
    This three-volume set provides 30-page profiles on 52 industries with a focus on the current economic environment, trends, regulation and outlook for each industry. Major companies in each industry are profiled, with references to sources of additional industry information.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC106.6 .S74

    See Communications Equipment in volume one. Avaya is included in the Company Comparative Analysis at the end of this survey.

  • Asian development outlook.
    This short one-volume annual reference work, published by the Asian Development Bank, focuses on economic trends and prospects in 37 Asian nations, including the Asian republics formerly part of the U.S.S.R. There are tables covering major economic indicators for many of the countries, GDP, balance of payments, etc.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC411 .A17 2005.

    See the Republic of Korea on pages 76 to 81.

  • Business: the ultimate resource.
    This 2,200-page single volume offers best practices, a management library, business thinkers and management giants, a business dictionary, a world business almanac, and a guide to business sources. The world business almanac offers short profiles of countries, covering economic structure, geography and resources, communications and energy, education and employment, fiscal and financial, business opportunities, more information, and web sites.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD38.15 .B878 2002.

    See South Korea on pages 1705 to 1707.

  • Encyclopedia of global industries.
    Twelve-page descriptions of 125 global industries, with background and development information, current conditions, industry leaders and further reading.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD2324 .E53 2003.

    See Telecommunications Equipment on pages 641 to 653. See also Telecommunications Services on pages 653 to 666. Korea is not one of the top five markets in either of these industries.

  • The IMD world competitiveness yearbook.
    This very heavy yearbook, published by the International Institute for Management Development in Switzerland, provides ranking information in many competitiveness categories for 46 major countries. Among the many categories are international trade, employment, prices, business legislation, labor markets, management practices, impact of globalization, corruption.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF1414 .W67 2006.

    See Korea on pages 190 to 193, with data on computers, technological infrastructure, investment in telecommunications, etc.

  • Market share reporter.
    Annual two-volume compilation of market share data on companies, products and services, worldwide, arranged by SIC code and with indexes by product, company and topic.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5410 .M35 2005.

    See Communications in volume two, on pages 622 to 661.

  • International financial statistics yearbook.
    Published annually by the International Monetary Fund, this compendium of statistics for every country provides information on population, GDP, producer, wholesale and consumer prices, wages, labor force, unemployment, volume and value of imports and exports, and many other categories. Statistics cover each year of the past 30 years, where data is available. The most recent decades of the monthly version of this yearbook is available in the Foster Business Library Reference collection, with the call number HG3881 .I626
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG3881 .I6263 2005.

    See pages 373 to 375 for Korea.

  • Directory of American firms operating in foreign countries.
    This three-volume annual publication lists 2,600 U.S. companies with 35,000 branches, subsidiaries, and affiliates in 190 countries. Volume one lists the firms in alphabetic order, detailing the countries in which the companies operate; following the companies section are listings by country, with Albania to Egypt in volume one, El Salvador to Mauritius in volume two, and Mexico to Zimbabwe in volume three.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG4538 .A1 .D5 2005.

    See volume three, pages 3701 to 3772, for South Korea.

Foster Business Library Books:
    The Foster Business Library maintains a collection of over 70,000 books on all business topics. To search for materials on all three campuses of the University of Washington, go to the UW Libraries Catalog, in the upper left corner of the Foster Business Library homepage. Search by keyword, title, author, series, etc.

    To limit the results of your search just to materials in the Foster Business Library collection, use the Modify or Limit options at the top of the search results and change the library location to Foster Business Library. Availablity is indicated on the right of each online catalog record. First, note in which collection, within Foster, your materials are in, since the library has ten different Collections, each in a different location and often with differing arrangements. "Available" indicates that the book should be on the shelves under that call number and available for you to check out. "Due" and a date indicates that the book is already checked out to someone and is due back on the date indicated; you can have the "Request/Place Hold" feature to recall the book for your use.

    If the material you want is not in the collections of the University of Washington, you can use the "Search Summit" feature to repeat your search in the combined holdings of over thirty cooperating libraries in Washington and Oregon. Use the "Request This Item" feature in Summit to have books in those library sent here to Foster for you to check out.

    The Foster general stacks collection is located south of the main part of the Foster Business Library, through the two pass-throughs into the basement of Balmer. The arrangement is by call number, from A (at the east end) to Z (at the far west end).

    A keyword search for Telecommunications Equipment produced a list of over sixty records in the UW Libraries, including:

    Limiting this search to the Foster Business Library produced just one very old record.

    A keyword search for Voice and Data produced a list of over eighty records in the UW Libraries (but, again, none in the Foster Business Library). Records in this category fell largely within the subject of Cable Television, for which there were more than 330 records in the UW Libraries, including fifteen records in the Foster Business Library (none about Korea). A keyword search for Cable Television and Korea produced no records in the UW Libraries.

    Another keyword search, for Telecommunications and Korea, produced a list of over fifteen records in the UW Libraries (but none in the Foster Business Library).

    The Foster Business Library includes over 150 books with the word Korea or Korean in the title, subtitle, subject or notes.

Foster Business Library Articles:

Help:

13 April 2004; updated 27 September 2006.   Peter Stevens, Business Librarian, Foster Business Library, stevens@u.washington.edu.