Digital divide in South Korea

The digital divide in South Korea refers to inequalities between individuals, households, and other groups of different demographic and socioeconomic levels in South Korea in access to information and communication technologies ("ICTs") and in the knowledge and skills needed to effectively use the information gained from connecting.

[1][2][3][4] The digital divide in South Korea is mainly caused by the unevenness of economic, regional, physical, or social opportunities, leading to marginalized persons not receiving the benefits that technology can bring.

[citation needed] However, the nature of information and knowledge, through commercialization process in capitalism, could make a greater problem than supposition.

[12] Because the information era is built on capitalism, this vicious circle is likely to lead to current society as well.

Older people, specifically the elderly, are placed at a higher disadvantage compared to the younger generation.

With the constant upgrades in technological devices, in which most of them have new features included, the elderly struggle to keep up with these new changes.

With these two issues, the elderly find themselves unable or less likely to enjoy communicating with others and looking up information via the technological devices.

On the contrary, for those who live in other urban cities, even though they rely on the Internet heavily, they do not pick up new technological skills as quickly as those who live in Seoul since their cities do not mass implement the systems Seoul heavily relies on.