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From: E-LAW <elaweugene> To: aalm, gsears, randy@psg.com, sghuter CC: conf:elaw.usoffice Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 13:42:06 -0700 E-LAW U.S. MEMORANDUM To: Geoff Sears, Randy Bush, Steve Huter, anyone else From: Lori Maddox Re: E-mail in Korea and Thailand Date: April 17, 1995 _________________________________________________________ Hello all. I just got back from Seoul and Bangkok and have a little news to report. This ought to supplement what exists in IGC's and Randy's various international access information. Seoul: There are two commercial internet providers in Seoul, both pretty affordable. Kornet is operated by Korea Telecom and has full internet access, for approx. 42,000 won per month. Ms. Ku Sun- Jeong can be reached at root@soback.kornet.nm.kr and may be able to help set up an account. I wrote to them in advance but was not able to get an account because they didn't know where I was planning to stay. Evidently this makes some difference because there is a telephone charge per three minute increment in addition to the basic rate. I am not clear whether this applies ALWAYS or sometimes. I just paid my hotel at the rate of 100 won/3 minutes (about 5 cents) In any event, I just went to Korea Telecom's offices, which are conveniently located right next door to the American Embassy. After two hours of trying to explain what I wanted, we got a temp account on Kornet for U.S. $20 for 10 days. The application is in Korean, but I had help. I need to follow up to determine what their advertised rate structure is, because all I have at this point is hearsay. When you dial in, you get a prompt like this: soback> and you just type telnet 192.82.108.39 and the rest is cake, as you know. Dacom is the e-mail system which most people seem to be using. The addresses are user@chollian.dacom.co.kr. I gather it is roughly the same as the Kornet system. I used both systems while in Seoul and they are friendly. The software for the chollian/dacom system does not include an ascii protocol for uploading. But people can read English messages and the menu choices that direct you to telnet are in English. The rest of the screen is in the hangul script.
