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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 9:25 pm Post subject: Have you lost your phone? Guess How Many Have. |
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Lost Mobile Phones Cost Users W1.37 Trillion
Mobile phone subscribers lost some 4.58 million phones last year.
According to a report submitted by the Information and Communications Ministry to the parliamentary science, technology, information and telecommunication committee on Sunday, 12.5 percent of 36.59 million mobile subscribers either lost their phones or had them stolen. The figure increased by 27.8 percent from 3.58 million the previous year. GNP lawmaker Kim Hee-jung said the damages amounted to W1.37 trillion assuming the price of a handset was W300,000 (US$292).
Meanwhile, only 66,347 cell phones were returned to owners through the Korea Association of Information and Telecommunication. Kim said illegal use of lost mobile phones could cause a serious social problem and urged the government to come up with proper measures.
Kim Hee-seop, Chosun Ilbo (February 20, 2005)
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200502/200502200019.html |
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casey's moon
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: Daejeon
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| Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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Yep, happened to me. Everyone told me that it would definitely be returned but it wasn't.  |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 12:21 am Post subject: |
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| I didn't lose it. It was stolen from me at my friend's hagwon!!!!!!!! |
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I_Am_Wrong
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: whatever
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| Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 1:50 am Post subject: |
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yeah...
a korean friend of mine from my language exchange lost her phone on the weekend. She called the number and the guy who answered said he would meet her later that day and then give it back. She called back later and her number no longer worked.....apparently there's a huge black market for korean made cell phones in China so..... |
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waggo
Joined: 18 May 2003
Location: pusan baby!
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| Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:03 am Post subject: |
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| I lost mine in downtown Busan the next day the guy who found it travelled quite a distance to give it back to me.(I would have come to him but I didnt know where he lived). |
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casey's moon
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: Daejeon
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| Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:09 am Post subject: |
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yeah, actually, I lost my replacement phone too -- left it in a taxi (DOH!) and the taxi driver answered it and drove back to give it to me. I just remembered that when I read waggo's post and thought it was only fair to report a positive story too.
Unfortunately, it doesn't say much good about me.... losing my phone twice in one year.  |
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Howard Roark
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
Location: Canada
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| Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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| casey's moon wrote: |
| Unfortunately, it doesn't say much good about me.... losing my phone twice in one year. |
Dude, that's nothing. My friend has lost 5 phones in the last year! And it's really annoying because it always takes him forever to get a new one.
On the other hand, I have a friend who's been here almost 4 years and has had the same phone the entire time! I can't believe it still works. |
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