The commercialization of CDMA has sparked the growth of mobile telephone industry in Korea and localization strategy of mobile products from imports, with the help of explosive increase in the number of subscribers has layed the foundation of further ...
The commercialization of CDMA has sparked the growth of mobile telephone industry in Korea and localization strategy of mobile products from imports, with the help of explosive increase in the number of subscribers has layed the foundation of further growth. By following growth in export, it turned to export oriented industry successfully. However, the success of the industry has been focused mainly on the growth of the turnover for production, domestic demands and exports. It is now the time to study the structure of industry by analyzing the growth factors and quality of the growth.In this paper, the mobile industry structure, its spill-over effect, growth factors and export indices are analyzed based mainly on I/O tables. The contributions of mobile industry to the nation's economic growth are compared with those of the major industries in Korea. The dynamic trends of structural changes in the major industries are analyzed by comparing the industries structure around the year 1995. And also, as Korea's growth strategy is mainly focused on exports, the analysis considered both growth and exports so that the paper can be used as an policy planning material.