SK Telecom has just opened its doors to selling RIM’s BlackBerry. This is a rather aggressive move for the Canadian company to push their products in Asia – risky too. South Korea is home to LG and Samsung, that also manufacture mobile handsets, but not necessarily BlackBerry enabled devices:

Up to now, Research in Motion has not been allowed to sell BlackBerry phones in South Korea because of laws that give a competitive edge to domestic companies, such as Samsung and LG Electronics. Those two companies have a combined 80% control of the South Korean market. [source]

Whatever happened to Laissez Faire? Well, as generally a Western concept, the “free market” doesn’t apply to home grown businesses that have foreign challengers. It’s true for several developing countries in Asia, especially back in the 50’s.

Post from: Cellphone9