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There is no official Apple retail store in South Korea--only resellers. This may be part of the reason, too.
by billpaetzke 15y ago
There is no official Apple retail store in South Korea--only resellers. This may be part of the reason, too.
- minikomi 15y agoHow much of an effort has Apple directed at marketing to South Koreans? In Japan, most of the marketing push came not from Apple but from the official carrier - Softbank.
- rodion_89 15y agoFor a lot of people I know, the lack of marketing on the Android front is why they switched from Softbank to AU. These friends of mine are not technically oriented so marketing plays a big factor in term of what they know about phones. On the other hand AU is really upping their game.
- minikomi 15y agoYep.. a guy in my office is helping AU get free wireless points for their users into stores (cafe's, bars etc.) for 8万 a pop.. pretty sweet little side biz.
- Pengwin 15y agoMarketing would help a lot in South Korea. Quite a few singers and musicians have even preformed songs for LG and Samsung.
- Tsagadai 15y agoI really doubt the statistics as I expressed in another post. There is an almost uncountable number of iPhone re-sellers here in Seoul. There are 6 in the street outside (within about a 100 metre range of each other). Apple is very, very popular here. I suspect the statistics are munged from website data which does not correlate to a representative population sample.
- bane 15y agoI would probably say iPhones are very popular in South Korea. Over several extended visits there, I have yet to see a Macintosh, of any sort, in the wild.