South Korea aims to become leading e-learning country by 2010

The effort, based on the country's extensive high-speed Internet infrastructure, is to expand the everyday use of on-line learning that has great growth potential, the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy said. "E-learning opens up a new paradigm and permits education and training that can overcome time and space limitations which exist in traditional programs at schools and academies" a government official said. He said the focus of development will be on strengthening the country's competitiveness in this field, expanding everyday usage and creating new demand.
South Korea ranked fifth in the 2003 Economist Intelligence Unit's assessment on information technology skill and educational infrastructure...