KT Corporation

Company profile

KT was founded on December 10, 1981, to contribute to social welfare and convenience in everyday life by operating an efficient telecommunications service and developing telecommunications technology. Since then, it has focused on expanding and automating the telecommunications infrastructure and in 1984 it made a major step forward by becoming the tenth company in the world to adopt the fully digitized telephone switching system TDX-1. Services offering include long-distance and international communications facilities, KORNET, ADSL, HINET-P, and CO-LAN. In 1995, KT announced the space communications era by launching Korea's first satellite, Koreasat 1, followed by Koreasat 2 and 3 over the next few years. This enabled the company to provide high-speed, broadband and multimedia services and to extend its broadcasting services from Korea to Southeast Asia.